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The accused was identified only by his first name Pravin.

In India, especially in the rural areas, the desire to have a male child often leads to the abandonment of female babies.

Britain too is seeing a spike in new cases and has warned that infections could more than treble to 100,000 a day.

The doctors diagnosed her with a rare condition called trichobezoar

The accused's wife filed a police complaint

The police said the medical examination of the girl has been conducted, and they are awaiting the results.

Preliminary investigation revealed Das had died four days ago, based on the state of decomposition.

The victim, 12, went missing Thursday and was found unconscious the next day

A doctor said such deformities occur in one in a million babies

The number of Covid cases in hospital has more than doubled in a month to 450 patients, including about 100 in intensive care.

Public parks were re-opened in Delhi on Monday, but the number of events for Yoga Day was cut back around the country for the second year running because of the pandemic.

The UAE is home to some 3.3 million Indians who make up a third of the population -- most of them in Dubai.

Authorities in many countries continue to wrestle with crowds flouting coronavirus rules on social distancing and mask-wearing.

India's economy was in the throes of a prolonged slowdown even before Covid-19 struck, but the pandemic untraveled years of gains.

The coronavirus wave has brought India's hospital system to its knees with severe shortages of oxygen and critical drugs.

The global pandemic has killed over 3.4 million people worldwide since the virus first emerged in late 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data.

In Paris, demand for tickets to a Renaissance sculpture show was brisk at the world's most visited museum, the Louvre.

More than 120 hospitals with Covid-19 patients experienced power disruptions.

The pandemic has claimed more than 3.3 million lives worldwide, with one of the worst outbreaks in India.

More than 150,000 people are set to be evacuated from coastal districts in Gujarat

Latest figures gathered by AFP from official sources showed almost 160 million confirmed cases worldwide by 1600 GMT Wednesday.

The United States remains the worst-hit nation in the world, with the highest number of known fatalities and infections.

In the United States, under-18s have accounted for 277 deaths in total

With two-thirds of its 1.3-billion people under the age of 35, India is an overwhelmingly young country, but its youth have never been called on to shoulder such huge responsibilities.

Around 9,000 Australians are believed to be in India, where hundreds of thousands of new coronavirus cases are being detected every day and the death toll is soaring.

In India cases have soared by around eight million since the end of March

Populations in many countries, meanwhile, are growing weary of virus measures.

Over the last week or more, he has been working the phones and his contacts to help friends, relatives and online acquaintances across India.

Long-term Dubai resident Purushothaman Nair said he was prepared to "spend a fortune" to return to the UAE.

Many countries are shutting their borders to travellers from India.