New Delhi, June 29: India on Tuesday reported 37,566 new Covid-19 cases and 907 deaths. The country's daily infections fell below the 40,000-mark after 102 days, the Union Health Ministry said in a statement.
The active cases now comprise 1.89 per cent of the country's total 3,03,16,897 cases. Active cases fell below the 6-lakh mark.
With 56,994 more discharges, the recovery rate rose to 96.87 per cent.
Some 62,000 Israeli settlers have fled areas in the northern sector of the 1948 Israeli-occupied lands amid fear of strikes by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement in retaliation for the bloody onslaught on Gaza, latest reports have revealed.
Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news channel, citing Israeli media outlets, reported on Sunday evening that the number of settlers that have evacuated the area as a result of Hezbollah’s operations now stands at a staggering 62,000.
The report noted that 30,000 of the settlers have evacuated northern occupied Palestine on their own as fears are mounting among the residents that Hezbollah fighters continue to carry out daily operations with no signs that they are deterred by any action the Israeli army is taking.
Israeli media outlets further noted that 40% of the evacuees are considering no return to the region.
Moreover, 38% of those who voluntarily left the area, no longer intend to return to their previous places of residence in the northern occupied territories.
This comes as Hezbollah targeted a facility housing Israeli soldiers in the Shomera settlement earlier on Sunday with a barrage of rockets.
The Lebanese resistance group also struck surveillance devices newly installed around the Dovev military barracks, completely destroying the hardware.
Hezbollah said in a statement that it attacked the deployment positions of Israeli soldiers south of the Jal al-Alam site, using heavy-caliber Burkan (Volcano) missiles.
In another statement, the resistance group announced that its fighters struck surveillance equipment at the Misgav Am military site, which Israeli forces had lately re-positioned.
Surveillance equipment at the al-Malkiya base was also targeted and destroyed, it said, adding that the operation was carried out with a salvo of rockets.
The Israeli regime has repeatedly attacked southern Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on Gaza that has killed at least 34,097 Palestinians, most of them women and children.
In retaliation, Hezbollah has launched near-daily rocket attacks on Israeli positions.
At least 349 people have been killed on the Lebanese border, including 68 civilians.
Hezbollah has already fought off two Israeli wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. The resistance forced the regime to retreat in both conflicts.
With the Karnataka transport department extending the deadline for the installation of High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) twice--- in November last year and February, it is no longer planning to extend the same. The department ordered for the installation of HSRP before May 31.
The transport department through a notification in August last year, had mandated the installation on all the vehicles that were registered in the state prior to April 1, 2019. According to transport officials, there are nearly two crore vehicles that are supposed to get HSRP for their vehicles.
“As of now, the state has registered only 34 lakh HSRP installations, despite extending the deadline twice. From nearly 18 lakh installations since February, the numbers have almost doubled. However, there are still a large number of vehicles that have to opt for HSRP,” said C Mallikarjuna, Additional Commissioner for Transport (Enforcement).
“We will wait till May 31 to check for the total number of vehicles that fall in line. We are expecting HSRP installations to touch 75 lakh, after which we will consider an extension as the numbers indicate that people are falling in line and if some more time is given everyone will get it done. However, if we do not reach that number before the deadline, we will request the government not to extend the deadline but urge for an enforcement,” he said.
He also stated that a fine of Rs 500 will be imposed for the first time and if vehicle owners do not fall in line, it will be Rs 1,000 later until they have installed HSRP. “We will wait till the Model Code of Conduct ends and take the government’s opinion. We are going to request the government for strict enforcement if the HSRP installations are not satisfactory,” he added.
The genocidal war on Gaza launched by Israel on October 7 last year, with the support of the US and its other Western allies, completes 200 days on Tuesday, leaving behind a trail of death, destruction, displacement and starvation.
These 200 days – between October 7, 2023, and April 23, 2024 – have been marked by unprecedented crimes against the people of Gaza, especially children and women, the bombardment of hospitals and schools, abuse and torture of women and abduction of young boys.
Human rights groups and international bodies have described the harrowing events unfolding in the besieged Palestinian territory as a textbook case of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Israeli regime’s key international allies – Washington, London, Paris and Berlin – have also been at the receiving end of massive public backlash for their continued military support for the regime.
The death toll in the apartheid regime’s genocidal campaign has already topped 34,150 since October 7, more than 75 percent of them being women and children, according to the Gaza government office.
The 2.3 million people in the besieged territory continue to deal with a catastrophic humanitarian crisis amid relentless bombings and crippling siege imposed by the Israeli regime with the backing of the US.
Following are the statistics related to 200 days of war waged by the Israeli occupation on Gaza.
200 – the number of days of the latest Israeli genocidal war on Gaza
41,183 – the total number of those killed and missing in Gaza since Oct. 7
34,183 – the total number of fatalities in Gaza since Oct. 7 (confirmed dead)
7,000 – the number of people still under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza (presumed dead)
77,183 – the number of wounded persons in Gaza since Oct. 7
3,025 – the number of massacres committed by the regime since Oct. 7
14,778 – the number of children killed since Oct. 7
30 – the number of children who died due to starvation and famine
9,752 – the number of women killed since Oct. 7
485 – the number of doctors and paramedics killed since Oct. 7
67 – the number of civil defense personnel killed since Oct. 7
140 – the number of Palestinian journalists killed since Oct. 7
72 – the percentage of children and women killed since Oct. 7
17,000 – the number of children who have lost one or both parents since Oct. 7
11,000 – the number of injured people who need to travel for treatment
10,000 – the number of cancer patients who face the risk of death
1,090,000 – the number of people with infectious diseases due to displacement
8,000 – the number of cases of viral hepatitis due to displacement
60,000 – the number of pregnant women at risk due to lack of healthcare
350,000 – the number of chronically ill patients suffering due to lack of medicine
5,000 – the number of people arbitrarily detained in Gaza since Oct. 7
310 – the number of health practitioners who have been arrested
20 – the number of known journalists arbitrarily detained since Oct. 7
2 million – the number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip
181 – the number of government buildings destroyed since Oct. 7
103 – the number of schools and universities completely destroyed since Oct. 7
317 – the number of schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation
239 – the number of mosques completely destroyed since Oct. 7
317 – the number of mosques partially destroyed since Oct. 7
3 – the number of churches targeted and destroyed since Oct. 7
86,000 – the number of housing units completely destroyed since Oct. 7
294,000 – the number of housing units partially destroyed since Oct. 7
75,000 – tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on Gaza since Oct. 7
32 – the number of hospitals taken out of service by the occupation since Oct. 7
53 – the number of health centers that have become non-functional since Oct. 7
160 – the number of health institutions partially or fully destroyed since Oct. 7
126 – the number of ambulances destroyed by the occupation army since Oct. 7
206 – the number of archaeological and heritage sites destroyed since Oct. 7
$30 – billions in preliminary direct losses as a result of the genocidal war on Gaza
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India since its Independence in 1947, has not established a true birth and death registration system, therefore the death and the birth number given by the Indian authorities are based upon a guess.
Ramesh Mishra
Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA
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