India

04 Jul

Pushkar Singh Dhami to be the new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

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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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03 Jul

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

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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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03 Jul

Bengal Govt fixes medical test rates for private labs and hospitals

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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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03 Jul

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

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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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03 Jul

Fire breaks out at house in Delhi’s Rohini

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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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03 Jul

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

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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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02 Jul

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

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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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02 Jul

Former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala released from Tihar Jail

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Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is serving a 10-year prison term and is out on parole, will reach Tihar jail on Friday to complete formalities for his release, INLD state unit president Nafe Singh Rathi said on Thursday. The Delhi government had last month passed an order granting a six-month special remission to those who have served nine-and-half years of their 10-year prison sentence to decongest jails in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to officials, since the 86-year-old former chief minister has already served nine years and nine months of his sentence, he is eligible to…

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02 Jul

Bagrakote tea estate new firm takes charge, reopens after six years

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One of the premium gardens in the Dooars , Bagrakote tea estate had been closed by the management six years ago,which was reopened on Thursday. The estate is located in the Malbazar subdivision of Jalpaiguri district and had 2,000 workers. The Duncans management had abandoned the Bagrakote garden in April 2015. On Thursday, representatives of Tea & Beverage Company — the new firm from Calcutta took over the estate hat had earlier been owned by the Duncans Goenka Group. The official added that on Sunday A meeting was held in the state labour department’s office in Siliguri it was decided…

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02 Jul

Four killed in cylinder blast in Farsh Bazaar area of Delhi’s Shahdara

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Four people died when a fire broke out following a cylinder blast at a house in the Farsh Bazaar area of Shahdara on Tuesday. Locals were seen gathered at the spot. More details are awaited. Speaking to ANI, Delhi Fire Service Director Atul Garg said, "Four people died and another person sustained burn injuries in a fire that erupted following a cylinder blast at a house in Farsh Bazar area of Shahdara last night." In a similar incident, a fire broke out at a cylinder shop on Tuesday evening in southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad Extension area, officials said. According to fire…

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