Category: NATIONAL NEWS

At a high-level meeting with senior officials, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, however, stressed that the Covid protocols should be followed everywhere. With the COVID-19 situation improving in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed officials on Wednesday to consider a partial relaxation in the two-day weekly closure of shops and business establishments and asked the home department to present detailed guidelines in this regard. At a high-level meeting with senior officials, the chief minister, however, stressed that the Covid protocols should be followed everywhere and there should not…

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The Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) has given its nod to a proposal to construct an entry gate at the Tikri Border. Soon, people coming to Delhi from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh by road will be able to witness the city’s cultural heritage and its glory when they enter the national capital. The Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC) has given its nod to a proposal to construct an entry gate at the Tikri Border – Delhi’s entry point from Haryana – and beautify a 200 metre stretch at the entry…

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“No one else except (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi will work for the SCs, STs and OBCs,” senior BJP leader Sushil Modi said. The ruling BJP tried to corner the Congress in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday for allegedly not doing enough for the SCs, STs and OBCs despite ruling the country for decades, and claimed that it was only the governments of which the Jan Sangh or the Bharatiya Janata Party was a part that actually worked for the uplift of the deprived sections of the society. The Upper House…

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The four-day monsoon session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly will begin here from Monday, an official said. Vaccination against COVID-19 will be mandatory for entry into the Assembly during the session, Vidhan Sabha secretariat’s principal secretary A P Singh said in a statement on Sunday. A total of four sittings will take place during the session, which will conclude on August 12, he said. Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Girish Gautam convened an all-party meeting on Sunday to ensure smooth functioning of the session. Singh said the Assembly secretariat had received 1,184…

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Air India Express said it has made final compensation offers to all 165 passengers, who were injured and the next of kin of 19 flyers who died in the plane crash, in Kerala’s Kozhikode district last year. According to the airline, 80 out of the 165 injured flyers have taken up the offers as on August 6. The airline is awaiting acceptance of the offers from the remaining 85 injured flyers and the next of kin of the 19 deceased passengers. “We have not received any rejection on the offers…

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The Mizoram government ordered rationing the purchase of diesel and petrol as the movement of vehicles, including the tankers carrying fuel, continued to remain shut on National Highway-306. The order issued by the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department on Friday said that the state could face a huge crisis of fuel, which comes via neighbouring Assam, due to the inter-state border dispute. “All filling stations are instructed not to issue petrol and diesel beyond the permitted quantities. Only those vehicles that go to filling stations will be issued…

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In a major boost for Delhi Metro, a small segment of its Pink Line at Trilokpuri, which had proved a bottleneck for the DMRC authorities for a long time, was inaugurated on Friday, making it the longest operational corridor of the network. With this, the 59-km-long Majlis Park-Shiv Vihar corridor or the Pink Line, which spans 38 stations, has been fully linked for the first time. Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal jointly inaugurated the section of about 289 metre…

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The MoU was signed by Professor P C Joshi, Acting Vice Chancellor, Delhi University and C Phunsog, Vice Chancellor, University of Ladakh.The Delhi University on Thursday signed an MoU with the University of Ladakh to encourage scientific and academic collaboration between the two varsities, a statement said. The MoU was signed by Professor P C Joshi, Acting Vice Chancellor, Delhi University and C Phunsog, Vice Chancellor, University of Ladakh, it said. While the Delhi University (DU) is in its year of centenary, the University of Ladakh (UOL) is one of the youngest…

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A government report accessed by DIN says that four of the six bridges that got washed away were built in the past 12 years at a cost of 33.55 crores. The washing away of six bridges in three days in rain-hit Gwalior-Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh has raised quetions over the built quality of the structures developed by the state over the past decades. A government report accessed by NDTV says that four of the six bridges that got washed away were built in the past 12 years at a…

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Five people were rescued from a flood-hit village in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Tuesday morning while efforts were on to save three others stranded on a tree following heavy rains in the area since the last two days, officials said. On Monday, defence aircraft were pressed into service to evacuate people from some flood-affected villages in Shivpuri. However, because of the heavy rains and bad weather in the district on Tuesday, the aircraft are unable to fly for the rescue operations, the officials said. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan…

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