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KPCC turns 100, plans year-long centenary celebrations - Mathrubhumi English KPCC turns 100, plans year-long centenary celebrations - Mathrubhumi English Posted: 30 Jan 2021 02:35 AM PST Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) turned 100 on Saturday. It has chalked out elaborate programmes for the one-year centenary celebrations of the grand old party. It was on January 30, 1921 that the Kerala Congress unit was formed as the Kerala Provincial Congress Committee after the Indian National Congress (INC) decided to form state level committees on linguistic basis. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) meeting held at Nagpur in December 1920 had decided to form state level Congress committees on linguistic lines. There were Malabar, Kochi and Travancore Congress committees and all of them spoke the Malayalam language. Interestingly, a unified Kerala state was formed on November 1, 1957 and the KPCC was formed 36 years ...

Former USA TODAY MLB reporter who lived for baseball dies at 64 - USA TODAY Former USA TODAY MLB reporter who lived for baseball dies at 64 - USA TODAY Here's the biggest news you missed this weekend - USA TODAY Biden administration should sue Donald Trump to pay for Capitol riot cleanup - USA TODAY Former USA TODAY MLB reporter who lived for baseball dies at 64 - USA TODAY Posted: 31 Jan 2021 03:26 PM PST CLOSE WASHINGTON — Mel Antonen, family man, friend to the world, and renowned sports journalist, died Saturday of a rare acute auto-immune disease and complications from COVID-19. He was a longtime USA TODAY Sports and MASN-TV baseball reporter who covered nearly three dozen World Series. In a half century in journalism, he reveled and excelled in telling others' stories. He was 64. Mel Richard Antonen's own story became the best of all. It began in the tiny town of L...

5 die, 129 test positive in Jalandhar District - The Tribune 5 die, 129 test positive in Jalandhar District - The Tribune Posted: 08 Oct 2020 12:00 AM PDT Tribune News Service Jalandhar, October 7 With five more people losing battle against Covid, the toll climbed to 422 in the district on Wednesday. Similarly, 129 people tested positive for the virus, taking the district tally to 13,680. As many as 12,098 people have been discharged so far, while 1,160 were still active and 849 people were under home isolation in Jalandhar. Meanwhile in Kapurthala, 29 people tested positive for Covid on Wednesday. Two deaths were reported from the district including that of a 65-year-old man from Nasairabad village, who died at PGI, Chandigarh; and a 70-year-old woman from Nangal Lubana village, who died at GMC Patiala. 44 test +ve in Hoshiarpur With the emergence of 44 new cases in Hoshiarpur district, the total number of Covid patients has risen...

Covid UK: Intensive care doctor says Covid crisis in hospitals has 'stabilised' - Daily Mail Covid UK: Intensive care doctor says Covid crisis in hospitals has 'stabilised' - Daily Mail Record daily rise in UK Covid vaccinations, as 600,000 more get first dose - The Independent Covid-19: As it happened - Record number of daily vaccinations in UK - BBC News Covid UK: Scammers send fake texts claiming lockdown breach fines - Daily Mail Covid UK: Intensive care doctor says Covid crisis in hospitals has 'stabilised' - Daily Mail Posted: 31 Jan 2021 05:45 AM PST The coronavirus crisis in hospitals across the UK has 'stabilised' and staff are no longer having to plan for extra capacity, an intensive care doctor has said. But Professor Rupert Pearse from the Intensive Care Society said 2021 is going to be 'another very hard year' and warned of the ment...