DH Evening Brief: June 27, 2021

Here are the top headlines this evening.

Twin explosions at IAF station in Jammu airport terror attack: J&K DGP

The "terror attack" using explosives-laden drones, a first-of-a-kind incident, at the IAF station at Jammu airport comes three days after the first engagement of the top Kashmiri leaders with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.It also comes at a time when the ceasefire on the border with India and Pakistan has been enforced without any incident for the past few months following back-channel talks. Read more

40,000 missing Covid-19 patients worry Bengaluru

The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which did a good job of stabilising the daily Covid-19 caseload during the lockdown, now faces a daunting task of tracing close to 40,000 patients. Read more

Mayawati trashes alliance rumours with AIMIM, to go solo in UP, Uttarakhand polls

Facing the dangers of being reduced to a fringe player in state politics, BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday trashed reports of electoral tie-up with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls and said that her party would go solo in the elections. Read more

Covid Tracker | Will the third wave affect children?

The Karnataka government constituted a high-level expert committee to recommend intervention in paediatric care in the event of a third Covid-19 wave. The committee, headed by Dr Devi Shetty recently submitted its report and had a wide range of suggestions for the government. Suraksha Pinnu brings you some of the key recommendations. Watch video

Cancer care, research takes back seat amid Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on clinical care and research for cancer, with screening down 85 per cent since March last year – which could possibly see 10,000 deaths over the next 10 years, according toa report. Read more

Delta Plus has more affinity for lung tissues compared to other Covid-19 strains: NTAGI chief

The Delta Plus variant of Covid-19 has greater affinity to lung tissues as compared to other strains but it does not mean that it will cause severe disease or is more transmissible, head of coronavirus working group NTAGI Dr N K Arora said. A new viral variant of the coronavirus, Delta Plus, was identified on June 11. It was recently classified as a variant of concern.Read more

Increasing Covid-19 deaths now a concern for Maharashtra

Newly recorded Covid-19 infections in the range of 8,000 to 10,000 daily and increasing deaths – largely because of reconciliation of old figures – continue to be a concern for Maharashtra.The peak of the second wave is over and the state may just be weeks away from the third wave, say, doctors, adding that the cases need to be controlled further. Read more

Serena Williams to skip Tokyo Olympics

Serena Williams will not be in the USteam for the Tokyo Olympics, the 23-times Grand Slam singles tennis champion said on Sunday. "Yeah, I'm actually not on the Olympic list, so... Not that I'm aware of. If so, then I shouldn't be on it," the 39-year-old told reporters on the eve of the Wimbledon. Read more

Watch (and hear) how NASA's Perseverance Rover took its first selfie

NASA's Perseverance rover took itsfirst and most epic selfie with the Ingenuity rover on Mars in April. The Perseverance roverabout the size of an SUV, weighing a metric ton, is equipped with 10 cameras and two microphones.In a video released by NASA,Vandi Verma, Perseverance’s chief engineer for robotic operations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shared the complexprocess behind the historic selfie. Watch video