LIVE: Mandous Cyclone in Andhra Pradesh, rivers overflow in several areas

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Latest LIVE: CPI MP Binoy Viswam has written a letter to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh YS Jagan Mohan Reddy regarding the failure of his administration in handling the Mandous Cyclone in Andhra Pradesh.

Google's email service Gmail is down for several users. Both, app and desktop version of Gmail is affected. Google's email service Gmail is down for several users, news agency ANI has reported. Both, the app and desktop version of Gmail is affected, the news agency said in a Tweet today.

Congress leader Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu to be CM of Himachal Pradesh and Mukesh Agnihotri to be Deputy CM. Oath ceremony will take place tomorrow at 11 am, reports ANI.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation is discussing with domestic airlines ways to address overall congestion at the Delhi airport, including the possibility of reducing the number of flights operated during peak hours, according to officials. On Saturday, senior ministry officials visited the Terminal 3 (T3) of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here to inspect passenger movements and baggage checkpoints, among other aspects, the officials said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to form the government in Gujarat for the seventh straight term on December 12. Party leader Bhupendra Patel will take oath as chief minister along with 20 other cabinet ministers. BJP is set to hold its legislature party meeting today at 10:30 am at the state BJP office "Kamalam" in Gandhinagar, after which the leaders will meet the Governor at around 2 pm to stake claim to form the government.

Around 4,000 police personnel from different units will be on security duty in Nagpur during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the city on Sunday, said officials on Friday. Modi will lay the foundation stone and inaugurate projects worth Rs 75,000 crore during his visit to the second capital of Maharashtra, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement in New Delhi.

Newly elected Congress MLAs met in Shimla on Friday and unanimously passed a resolution authorising the party president to pick their leader who will be the next Himachal Pradesh chief minister.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday said that the cyclonic storm Mandous landfall process is nearing completion as the rear sector of the cyclone has moved into the land and lies over north coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Mandous is all set to weaken, following the landfall, to a deep depression and later a depression on Saturday.

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Mandous Cyclone in Andhra Pradesh

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Celebrations start at Sukhvinder Sukhu's native place Nadaun after he is named HP CM

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Snake found in Air India Express plane, DGCA orders probe

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Govt will work for development of Himachal: CM designate

Expressing gratitude to the Gandhi family, Himachal Pradesh designated Chief Minister and Congress leader Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday said the government would work for the development of the state.

 

"Our government will bring change. We will work for the development of Himachal Pradesh," Sukhu, who started his political career at the age of 18, told the media in his first statement after being named the new Chief Minister.

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MP sees no Covid-19 case, death or recovery; active tally now eight

Madhya Pradesh on Saturday did not report a single Covid-19 case, death or recovery, a health official said. 

The tally in the state was 1,054,911, the toll stood at 10,776 and the recovery count was 1,044,127, he said.

 

The active tally in Madhya Pradesh was eight, he said.

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Bomb explodes at mall in Pakistan; 1 killed, 7 injured

A person was killed and seven others were injured in a bomb blast at a shopping mall in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province on Saturday, police said. A senior police official said the bomb disposal squad has found evidence that a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) was used in the 'terror attack' in Awaran district.

 

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MoS Defence unveils bust of India’s first CDS late Gen Bipin Rawat

To commemorate the first death anniversary of India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his bust was unveiled by MoS Defence Ajay Bhatt at United Service Institution of India (USI) in New Delhi on December 10.

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Gmail is down for several users. Both, app and desktop version of Gmail is affected, reports ANI

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Pakistan believes dealing with neigbour is compatible with cross-border terrorism, says Jaishankar

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HP CM-designate meets former CM Thakur

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Mumbai records 10 cases of measles, no fresh fatalities

Mumbai recorded 10 cases of measles in the last 24 hours and no new fatalities, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said. The city has recorded 457 measles cases and eight fatalities so far this year, the official said. Four suspected fatalities due to the infection, including that of a four-year-old child in Kurla who had not been vaccinated, are yet to be confirmed, he said. As per a release issued by the civic body, of 2,35,878 children in the age group of nine months to five years, 30,506 children were given additional doses of Measles-Rubella (MR) special dose.

 

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Cyclone Mandous: Rivers overflow in Andhra Pradesh

Roads got submerged and traffic was disrupted, as rivers overflowed in several areas of the KVB Puram Mandal due to heavy rainfall in the region following Cyclone Mandous. The areas that faced such overflow of rivers included Kovanur, Thimmasamudram, and Rajula Kandiga.

 

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US takes in 25 students from India under inaugural Quad Fellowship

The United States announced that it had taken the first group of 100 students, 25 from each QUAD country, including India under its QUAD Fellowship. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in a statement, congratulated the first cohort of Quad Fellows from Australia, India, Japan, and the United State and said that together bring the Quad members closer.

 

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Himachal Pradesh: Congress CLP meeting underway in Shimla

Congress Himachal Pradesh in-charge Rajeev Shukla, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel, Himachal Pradesh Congress Chief Pratibha Virbhadra Singh and others present in the meeting

 

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Kerala seed farm declared as first carbon neutral farm in the country

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday declared a seed farm, located in Aluva, as the first carbon neutral farm in the country. A significant reduction in carbon emission has helped the seed farm, under the Agricultural Department, achieve carbon neutral status, he said making the announcement.