Yogi highlights environmental challenges, advocates sustainable development
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath voiced grave concerns on Saturday about escalating environmental and ecological challenges, emphasizing the Uttar Pradesh government’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainability. Speaking at the Green India Summit, the Chief Minister warned of the alarming pollution levels in Delhi, describing it as a “gas chamber.”...
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Six held in Rajasthan’s Bundi for witch hunting, torturing woman for two days
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Social activist ends fast against EVMs
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Policemen held by CBI for birbery
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Minister vows action against drug peddlers in Karnataka
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Hurriyat asks J and K to reinstate employees fired over 'terror links'
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MahaYuti ally raises doubts on Electronic Voting Machines
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Committed to fostering the industrial expansion: MP CM
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Chandrachud's observations have opened pandora's box: Jairam Ramesh
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 is in the news these days because of certain oral observations made in 2022 by then Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud that have since opened a pandora's box. The Congress general secretary in-charge communications recalled...
Use of Ringer Lactate in Karnataka government hospitals stopped
Amid concerns that recent maternal deaths in Ballari district could be linked to substandard intravenous fluids solution, the use of Ringer Lactate has been suspended in all government hospitals as a precautionary measure, Dinesh Gundu Rao, health minister announced on Saturday. Officials said that Ringer Lactate solution is "typically administered intravenously...
Festival of festivals, Hornbill to kickoff in Kisama on December 1
The 25th edition of the 10-day-long Hornbill Festival in Nagaland is set to begin on December 1. This year, the festival will feature four country partners—Wales, the US, Japan, and Peru—along with two state partners, Sikkim and Telangana, Tourism Minister Temjen Imna Along said at a press conference here on Friday. The...
90 medicines found below standard quality in October
The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation found 56 drug samples tested in the central drug laboratories in October as not of standard quality--Not of Standard Qua;lity (NSQ). Besides, the Union health ministry said on Friday, three drug samples picked by the Bihar Drugs Control Authority in October have been identified...
Jaipur, Raipur stadium have no NOC for ground water extraction
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) was recently informed that the international cricket stadia in Jaipur and Raipur did not apply for no-objection certificates to extract groundwater despite repeated reminders. The Central Ground Water Authority's (CGWAs) report therefore requested the tribunal to pass a suitable order, underscoring even the district magistrates concerned...
Andaman drug smugglers called Indian contact
Days after the nearly 6,000 kg of methamphetamine were seized from a trawler in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, investigators found that the smugglers had made multiple calls to their contacts in South East Asian countries, including one person in north India, a top police officer said on Friday. They also...
Birsa Munda’s great grandson passes away
Tribal icon Birsa Munda's great-grandson Mangal Munda, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital here after being injured in a road accident, died of "cardiovascular failure" on Friday, an official of the health facility said. He was 45. Mangal Munda breathed his last at 12.30 am at the state's apex health...