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Guna (MP), Jul 18 (PTI) Recent incident of a dalit couple consuming a pesticide and being assaulted by the police here in Madhya Pradesh is more horrific than the 2016 flogging of dalits at Una in Gujarat, MLA Jignesh Mevani said on Saturday.

The independent MLA from Gujarat has demanded registration of criminal cases against police personnel involved in the July 14 incident.

New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The AIIMS Ethics Committee on Saturday gave its nod for a human clinical trial of the indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin following which the premier hospital is likely to begin the exercise by enrolling healthy volunteers from Monday.

AIIMS-Delhi is among the 12 sites selected by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) for conducting phase I and II human trials of Covaxin. In phase I, the vaccine would be tested on 375 volunteers and the maximum of 100 of them would be from AIIMS.

SRINAGAR, July 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Three militants were killed Saturday in an ongoing fierce gunfight with government forces in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.

The gunfight broke out at village Amshipora of Shopian district, about 60 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir.

“A gunfight between militants and joint contingents of army, paramilitary and police broke out early today here at Amshipora village. In the firefight so far three militants were killed,” a police official posted in Shopian said.

KANPUR: Quietness prevailed in Jajmau area on Saturday as the day passed on in the situation of lockdown. There was a lesser movement on the road due to the constant fear of the restrictions.

When the UP government has decided to keep watch on the district through drones the dread of authorities concerned is sure to come about.

Srinagar, July 18, 2020: Three Kashmiris were killed on Saturday by Indian security forces in Amshipora area of Kulgam district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

Lucknow, Jul 18 (PTI) A woman and her daughter set themselves on fire in front of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's Office here allegedly over police inaction in a land dispute case in Amethi.

The mother-daughter duo sustained burn injuries and were admitted to the civil hospital where their condition was said to be critical, police said.

New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the entire country is with Assam, which is facing a grim flood situation, and expressed confidence that the people of the state will overcome the natural disaster.

Over 35 lakh people across 28 of the state's 33 districts are now affected due to flooding, an official bulletin said on Friday.

Mumbai, Jul 17 (PTI) The upcoming Bakri Eid festival should be celebrated in a simple manner due to the COVID-19 outbreak, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Friday and asked people to follow guidelines issued.

The guidelines were issued after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, deputy CM Ajit Pawar, Deshmukh and other ministers met earlier this week to discuss issues relating to Baki Eid (Eid-ul-Adha), which falls later this month.

Haridwar, Jul 17 (PTI) Akhara Parishad, an apex body of saints and seers, on Friday said the schedule of 2021 Haridwar Kumbh cannot be deferred and it will have to be held on time.

"The anniversary of nectar drops falling into the Ganga falls in April 2021. So the schedule of the Kumbh cannot be deferred under any circumstances. It will have to be held as per its muhurat," Akhara Parishad chief Mahanth Narendra Giri Ji Maharaj told reporters here.

Srinagar, Jul 18 (PTI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday visited a key forward post along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

Singh, who was accompanied by Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat and Army Chief Gen MM Naravane, visited the North Hill post and was apprised about the situation at the border by senior officials.