West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to attend the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya in January, a senior TMC leader told PTI on Wednesday. According to TMC sources, neither Banerjee nor any representative of the West Bengal government or the party will be present at the programme scheduled on January 22.
The hospitalisation due to gas leak at Chennai plant has increased to 44. An ammonia leak happened from a pipeline belonging to Coromandel International near its Ennore plant in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has on Wednesday. The incident comes weeks after an oil spill in the same area from a refinery belonging to Indian Oil-owned Chennai Petroleum Corp during Cyclone Michaung.
India on Wednesday recorded 529 fresh Covid-19 cases, while the country's active infection count stood at 4,093. According to the ministry's data updated at 8 am, three new fatalities, two from Karnataka and one from Gujarat, were reported in the last 24 hours. Till December 5, the number of daily cases dropped to double-digits, but infections have again gone up after the emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions. As the ministry data, 220.67 crore doses of Covid vaccines have so far been administered in the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today interacted with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra on 27th December 2023 at 12:30 PM via video conferencing. Since its launch on 15th November 2023, the prime minister has regularly interacted with the beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra all across the country. Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is being undertaken across the country to attain saturation of flagship schemes of the government by ensuring that the benefits of these schemes reach all targeted beneficiaries in a time-bound manner.
Several commuters were injured in a pile-up on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida this morning amidst dense fog across the national capital and NCR. As per officials, the incident happened around 8 am on the Agra to Noida lane of the expressway in Dayanatpur area under the Jewar police station limits. "No person suffered fatal injury in the incident while the number of those injured was yet to be ascertained," Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Ashok Kumar told media. In a separate incident, many were injured on the Agra-Lucknow expressway when at least seven to eight vehicles collided due to a dense layer of fog. The low visibility led to a massive collision of vehicles near the Jharna Nala flyover. "The vehicle ahead of me suddenly applied the brake, due to which I hit the brake and then some three to four vehicles behind me also collided with each other," Ravi Kumar, an eyewitness to the incident told media.
Delhi Airport is grappling with delays that are impacting around 110 flights on Wednesday morning due to dense fog. The delays are affecting both domestic and international arrivals and departures. Some trains have also been delayed due to fog and low visibility in the national capital with temperature dropping to almost seven degrees today. The Indian meteorological department has issued a warning of 'dense to very dense' fog in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh during 27th-29th December and over isolated pockets of North Rajasthan and north Madhya Pradesh on 27th December.
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