India

05 Jul

Petrol price today

editor0 CommentsBusiness, India
While petrol costs Rs 99.86 per litre in Delhi after a 35-paise increase, one litre of diesel costs Rs 89.36 (unchanged today). On Monday, petrol costs continued to rise, with the price of petrol in Delhi creeping closer to the three-figure level. According to news agency ANI, while petrol costs Rs 99.86 per litre in Delhi after a 35-paise boost, diesel costs Rs 89.36 per litre in the national capital (unchanged today). Petrol prices in other major cities also continued to rise to new highs. It was priced at Rs 105.92 per litre in Mumbai (a 24 paise increase), while…
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In a survey suggest that plastic ban has not been successful across 11 states and two Union territories
05 Jul

In a survey suggest that plastic ban has not been successful across 11 states and two Union territories

editorIndia, Assam, Health, West Bengal
A survey across 11 states and two Union territories across the Himalayan region in the country works on the issue of waste suggests that while most people were aware of the existence of plastic bag ban in their areas, most believe the ban has not succeeded. The report published by Roshan Rai, Priyadarshinee Shrestha and Rajendra P. Gurung, suggests that only 19 per cent felt the ban was highly effective , while 82 per cent of the respondents were aware of the existence of the plastic bag ban in their region. In Bengal, plastic carry bags are banned in Darjeeling…
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Water cannons used to disperse AAP workers trying to gherao Amarinder Singh’s house
04 Jul

Water cannons used to disperse AAP workers trying to gherao Amarinder Singh’s house

editor0 CommentsPolitical, India, ,
Members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Punjab police clashed outside the farmhouse of Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh in Siswan. The AAP workers were protesting against the frequent power cuts in Punjab. The clash escalated following which police used a water cannon to disperse the AAP workers who were trying to gherao the house of the chief minister. A few AAP leaders have been detained by the police.Punjab AAP chief Bhagwant Mann and his party worker gathered in force outside Amarinder Singh's house in Mohali this afternoon and started shouting slogans. Later, they started marching towards the…
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Pushkar Singh Dhami to be the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
04 Jul

Pushkar Singh Dhami to be the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

editor0 CommentsIndia, Political, ,
Pushkar Singh Dhami will be the new Chief Minister of Uttrakhand. His name was proposed in the legislature party meeting in Dehradun on Saturday. Dhami represents Khatima constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Uttarakhand Assembly. Sources say Dhami will take the oath today itself. The Uttarakhand BJP legislature party met on Saturday afternoon to elect its new leader, a day after Tirath Singh Rawat resigned as chief minister after a less than four-month stint. The name of Mr Dhami, considered close to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, was declared after the 57 Uttarakhand BJP MLAs met at the…
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Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat offers to resign months after taking oath: Sources
03 Jul

Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat offers to resign months after taking oath: Sources

editor0 CommentsIndia, Political, ,
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat submitted his resignation to Governor Baby Rani Maurya on Friday, as per the news agency ANI. In a fiasco which reached its crescendo in barely four months, Uttarakhand will get its third Chief Minister in one year. Tirath said he had resigned to avoid a constitutional crisis. He had taken oath as the CM on March 10 and had to be elected as MLA within six months to continue on the post. According to Section 151-A of the Representation of the People Act, a bypoll is not held in a state if less than…
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Bengal Govt fixes medical test rates for private labs and hospitals
03 Jul

Bengal Govt fixes medical test rates for private labs and hospitals

editor0 CommentsHealth, Covid19, India, West Bengal, ,
On Friday , Similar to the capping of coronavirus test prices the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) fixed the charges on five radiological tests and 15 pathological tests which are conducted by private hospitals. The health department has issued an order that all private hospitals with more than 150 beds would follow the order. Among pathological tests, the Procalcitonin test cannot cost more than Rs 4,000, the upper limit for the IL-6 test has been fixed at Rs 3,500, for D-dimer, it is Rs 2,300. According to the commission, Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, many had complained about exorbitant rates of tests…
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Railway connectivity towards NE gets a boost with commissioning of double line
03 Jul

Railway connectivity towards NE gets a boost with commissioning of double line

editor0 CommentsIndia, North East
In both these sections, double lines have been commissioned along with Railway Electrification. Completion of these doubling sections will help operation of more freight traffic to & from Northeast region. The entire work is completed during the Covid pandemic situation by observing necessary safety protocols by the Northeast Frontier Railway. An official of N.F. Railway said that, Jalpaiguri Road – Y Leg section was the only super critical work left to be completed in N.F. Railway. “This section has an important bridge of 970 mt length (20 spans) on the river Teesta. This section was a bottleneck as double lines…
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Fire breaks out at house in Delhi’s Rohini
03 Jul

Fire breaks out at house in Delhi’s Rohini

editorIndia
A fire broke out at a house in the Delhi’s  Rohini area on Saturday morning, four people from the scene were rescued, the blaze was brought under control but during the fire-fighting operations, a fireman also got injured Delhi Fire Service officials said. "A call about the fire in Budh Vihar area in Rohini was received around 6.00 am and four fire tenders rushed to the area. Fire was brought under control very quickly. Four people were rescued and shifted to a hospital," said Atul Garg, The Director, Delhi Fire Service. The cause of the fire is not known yet.
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Union health ministry decided would set up two oxygen plants at north Bengal hospitals
03 Jul

Union health ministry decided would set up two oxygen plants at north Bengal hospitals

editor0 CommentsHealth, Covid19, India, North Bengal, West Bengal, ,
The Union health ministry has assigned two central agencies to set up two oxygen plants at the district hospitals of Darjeeling and Kalimpong and decided conduct the projects. On Friday,the BJP MP of Darjeeling Raju Bista said that Pressure Swing Adsorption i.e. medical oxygen generator plants which would be irst-of-its-kind facility in the hills,would be available at the hospitals very soon. The MP, Raju Bista has said that I had written a letter to the Prime Minister , mentioning that and requested him for oxygen plants, one each in these two places and another in Siliguri where patients from all…
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Drone spotted over Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Delhi lodges protest with Pakistan
02 Jul

Drone spotted over Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Delhi lodges protest with Pakistan

editor0 CommentsIndia, International, ,
A drone was spotted over the Indian High Commission complex in Islamabad last week and Pakistan has been asked to investigate the incident and prevent recurrence of such “breach of security”, the external affairs ministry said on Friday. The Indian mission has also lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the incident through a note verbale which is a diplomatic communique, people familiar with the development said. "On Saturday at about 22:15 hours while we had a function underway near the residential area inside the Indian High Commission, we saw a drone hovering over us which came in twice," a…
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