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He also requested all those who had come in his contact in the past few days to undergo a test.

Ministry spokesperson Rajeev Jain said on Tuesday that 1.87 crore citizens participated in the survey of 4,242 cities, 62 cantonment boards and 92 towns along the Ganga river.

A record total of 8,99,864 samples have been tested on Monday, the highest in a day, taking the cumulative tests conducted so far to 3,09,41,264, the ministry said

Authorities deployed helicopters in western China on Tuesday to rescue people stranded by flooding as heavy rain swelled the Yangtze and other rivers to dangerous levels, state media reported.

Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, hanging on to gains from the previous session thanks to high compliance with production cuts from members of the OPEC+ producer group.

The Legion 7i and Legion 5i laptops will be available across online and offline retail channels starting this week while the Legion 5Pi will be sold across all platforms later in August.

Marks & Spencer will cut a further 7,000 jobs, it said on Tuesday, as the COVID19 crisis deals another blow to Britain's beleaguered retail sector.

The Enforcement Directorate has recorded the statement of Sushant Singh Rajput's father KK Singh in connection with its probe into money laundering aspects of the Bollywood actor's alleged suicide.

Dubai still requires foreign residents who are overseas to obtain permission before returning, the emirate said on Tuesday.

Hitting out at Gandhi, Nadda said his 'rants' have been repeatedly dismissed by the common man who has 'overwhelmingly' contributed to the PM CARES fund.

Oil prices held onto most of their overnight gains on Tuesday after the OPEC+ producer grouping said members were almost fully complying with agreed output cuts to support prices amid a drop in demand for fuels due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least one person and damaging roads and buildings including a hospital and a sports complex being used as a novel coronavirus quarantine centre.

An Indian court refused to allow the reopening of a south Indian copper smelter, local media reported on Tuesday, over two years after it was shut over pollution concerns.

China's CanSino Biologics said on Tuesday it had not started enrolling participants for a latestage trial of its potential COVID19 vaccine Ad5nCoV.

The vaccine- Sputnik V is developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.

China said on Tuesday it has begun an antidumping probe into imports of Australian wine in a move that will likely worsen tensions between the two countries and knocked a fifth off the share price of Australia's biggest winemaker.