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A day after the formal launching of the inter-state bi-weekly bus service between Mizoram and Tripura, the first passenger bus from the highest peak of Tripura — Bethliangchhip of Jampui hill in the North — left for Aizawl with 24 passengers on Tuesday.

As the Indian summer has become deadly with air pollution, an analysis of summer air quality, recorded between March and May this year, done by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has marked Guwahati and Agartala as the most polluted cities in the northeast.

Below-normal rainfall activities in July has left northeast thirsty, ruining the hope carried by good amount of rainfall soon after the onset of monsoon in June.

Anand Mahindra's poetic reflection on Meghalaya's Seven Sisters Waterfall in Sohra has ignited travel inspiration. This natural wonder, once a record-holder for rainfall, transforms statistics into a breathtaking spectacle of seven streams cascading over 300 meters. Best experienced during the monsoon, the falls showcase the landscape's dramatic sculpting by water, offering an unforgettable visual.

The Tripura government has said the area where a Shiva temple has been proposed to be built in Phuldungsei village at Thaidowr Tlang is part of the state and that there was “no question of any land dispute”.

Six more members of the Northeast Mount Everest expedition team rewrote history as they reached the top of the world on Saturday morning.

One-fourth decline in daily Covid cases in Assam in last 10 days has brought a major relief amid third wave of the pandemic, but the frontier state of Mizoram remains the only state in the northeast where a surge in daily cases continues with an an alarming positivity rate.

In view of the staggering 346.7% surge in daily Covid-19 cases in Haryana in the last 15 days, the daily cases are projected to peak in the state by mid or end of May, as per the report of Cambridge Judge Business School and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

India had around 21.40 lakh people living with HIV/AIDS in 2017, but adult HIV prevalence among 15-49-year-old people has been declining, and was estimated at 0.22% for last year.

The proposed visit of Union health minister, Mansukh Mandaviya, to the northeast on August 17 is expected to send a clear message to the region that it has to pull up its socks before the third wave of Covid-19 strikes, health department sources said.

IMD forecasts relief from heatwave with rainfall predictions for multiple regions including West Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Vidarbha, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, and Tripura. Monsoon is expected to hit Delhi-NCR around June 30, offering respite from extreme heatwave conditions.

Aizawl, Mizoram's capital, earns the nickname “Silent City” due to its remarkably disciplined traffic and serene atmosphere. This quietude stems from a high civic sense, adherence to lane discipline, and the community's selfless 'Tlawmngaihna' tradition, creating an organized and peaceful urban environment unlike any other in India.

Two Manipuri youths - Chirom Shankar Singh and Phairembam Bidyachand Singh from an NCC Mt Everest team - conquered the world's highest peak on Sunday morning.

The pre-monsoon season ended on Tuesday with excess rainfall in Meghalaya, Assam and Manipur since March 1. But the rainfall distribution pattern has been divergent in Mizoram and Tripura where deficit rainfall was experienced in the last three months.

With the recent uptick in Covid cases, the focus is again on whether states are testing enough to detect cases well in time. Data shows that Kerala, which is in the news for reporting the highest number of cases, is also the leader in testing rates among larger states with a seven-day average of 4,587 tests per million. At the other end of the spectrum, Rajasthan is at just 378 tests per million.

India became the third country in the world to officially record more than 5 lakh deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching the grim milestone on Thursday. Only the US, with over 9.1 lakh Covid fatalities, and Brazil (nearly 6.3 lakh) have reported more deaths from the virus so far. At 3.3 lakh, the toll from the pandemic in Russia is the fourth highest, ahead of Mexico, which has so far logged just over 3.07 deaths.

India recorded 4,12,784 new cases, by far the highest single-day count in any country so far. The day's death toll climbed close to the 4,000 mark at 3,980. Alarmingly, the record surge in cases came out of a reduced number of tests conducted the previous day. As a result, the test positivity rate (TPR) for the last three days climbed to 24.4%.

The city’s Covid-19 weekly growth rate has exceeded the national average within a few days, standing at 0.7% againist 0.6%, 13th in the country but far ahead of Punjab.

14 states and UTs have reached a Covid recovery rate of 90% and above- that is for every 100 confirmed cases 90 have recovered. This has also significantly brought down the total active caseloads across the country to less than 26 lakh on Tuesday, from a peak of 37 lakh earlier this month.

The average daily vaccination against Covid-19 increased to 40.3 lakh doses in June, driven by a jump since the Centre took over procurement and supplies of 75% of domestically produced jabs since June 21.

The attack on author Salman Rushdie in New York on Friday has led to renewed interest among India's netizens on the author's controversial work Satanic Verses almost three decades after its launch. Even though the book is banned for sale in India, search traffic relating to the book and the author has spiked on search giant Google.

Traffic for the term “Satanic Verses download” spiked starting late on Friday and continued to trend strongly through thr weekend and till Monday morning. A regional analysis showed that the highest search traffic came from West Bengal, followed by Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Maharashtra, in this order. The award-winning author’s name also trended, and was the second most-searched term on Google in India on Friday, with over 1 million searches clocked.

The third wave of Covid may be here but not all states need to worry yet. For, barring West Bengal, Maharashtra, Goa, Mizoram, Punjab, Kerala and Delhi where fortnightly Covid positivity rates or total confirmed cases per 100 tests measured over a 14-day period (December 26-January 8) have gone up to 17%, the situation in other parts has not taken a serious turn.

Much of Kerala could be a fit case to be placed under lockdown with the state’s fortnightly positivity rate, or total confirmed cases per 100 tests over a 14-day period, at a high 16% which hasn’t changed much from the situation a fortnight ago.

Delhiites endured sweltering 46°C weather in New Delhi, with Ayanagar recording the highest temperature. IMD predicted heatwave conditions in parts of West and East Uttar Pradesh on 19th June, 2024.