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New Zealand on Saturday reported two new COVID-19 cases, after the country registered three infections earlier this week for the first time in 24 days, director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield said. ....

Beijing on Saturday reported 22 new domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases, while maintaining a state of alert and continued testing of its residents after a fresh coronavirus outbreak was detected last week in the Chinese capital's wholesale food market.....

Spain's state of alarm, the emergency mechanism propping up the nationwide lockdown to contain COVID-19, will expire midnight on Saturday, 98 days after it first came into effect.....

The state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium here would webcast live the partial solar eclipse on Sunday due to the Covid-induced ban on public gatherings, an official said on Saturday. ....

The Delhi Congress on Saturday took a pot shot at Lt Governor Anil Baijal and Delhi's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government saying there is no coordination between them in decision making due to which the people are totally confused. The remarks of the Delhi Congress chief Chaudhary Anil Kumar came soon after Baijal on Saturday rolled back the order on five days institutional quarantine in the national capital.....

The Delhi Government said on Saturday that beds for Covid-19 patients in private hospitals will be subsidised.....

India's largest smartphone seller Xiaomi is "more Indian" than any other smartphone brand, company's India head Manu Kumar Jain said on Saturday amid growing chorus for boycotting Chinese goods in the country. ....

Fast bowler S. Sreesanth said that while he is open to playing for India again if given the opportunity, he is not back in the Kerala Ranji setup to compete.....

Yoga is the ancient and traditional science that is designed for humankinds universal well-being and advancement. Asanas form just one aspect of yoga, and yoga contains 82 lakh asanas in total. They are inspired by the science of nature, and named after the sages who performed Tapasya holding a particular posture for centuries.....
An annular solar eclipse appeared on the heels of the summer solstice on Sunday. It was visible over Central Africa, the Southern Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, Northern India and South Central China. A partial eclipse was seen over most of Asia, Africa, Southern and Eastern Europe, Northern Australia and parts of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The entire eclipse lasted about 3.75 hours, but the duration as it passed over individual locations was around a minute and a half. During the peak, it lasted just over 30 seconds. ....