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• Congress leader among attack targets, bombs found as phase 5 poll looms
  Clashes, attacks and recovery of arms and ammuition on Sunday marked West Bengal’s run-up to the fifth phase of polls scheduled for Saturday. Most clashes were reported between Trinamool Congress and BJP. The trend was broken in Malda where a clash broke out between Congress and Trinamool supporters.
• Violence follows victory of Tripura royal scion, Sec 144 in 5 districts
  A day after Tripura royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarman’s newly-formed alliance defeated BJP in the tribal council polls, violence swept several districts of the state amid allegations that supporters on the winning side targeted offices and workers of the saffron party and its ally, the Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura.​
• Five rusted mines recovered, defused in J&K’s Samba
• Maharashtra administers over 1cr doses, highest in country
  Maharashtra reached a major Covid-19 milestone on Sunday as it crossed the one crore-mark in vaccine doses administered, the highest by any state. It took the state a little less than 70 days to cover nearly one-third of the target population with at least one dose, officials said. Rajasthan is a close second with nearly 96lakh doses administered.​
• 3 days on, BJP pulls Senger’s wife out of UP election fray
• Travelling on Rajdhanis with modern coaches gets costlier
  Travel in Rajdhani trains with upgraded modern Tejas-type coaches will cost more. The Indian Railways had introduced a 5% hike in the base fare of the Delhi-Agartala Tejas-Rajdhani train which started operation in February.​
• Hanuman’s place of birth: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh engage in epic battle
  While Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have claimed that the birthplace of Lord Hanuman is on their land, a religious head from Shivamogga made yet another claim, saying the trusted companion of Lord Ram was born in the pilgrim centre Gokarna in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district.
• China changes tack, plays hardball on Gogra-Hot Springs de-escalation
  The recent round of military talks between India and China saw the Chinese side switching track, taking a rigid position on de-escalation in the Gogra-Hot Springs area, in contrast to its earlier posture when it was more fixated on the Finger area near Pangong lake.
• Srinagar hosts 2nd fashion show inside a fortnight
• Now, AI-based device to alert drivers when they doze off
  The need to ensure drivers of defence vehicles don’t doze off while driving long distances has resulted in the invention of an artificial intelligence-based device that can alert the driver with a loud buzzer if his eyes close for more than three seconds.