High temperature at high altitude is disrupting flight operations to and from Leh, located at nearly 10,700 feet above the mean sea level. Domestic airlines operating A320 and B737 planes to the Leh airport and some carriers have been cancelling their scheduled flights in recent days due to high temperatures, according to industry officials.

9:54 PM

Kerala CM Vijayan holds high-level meeting to review rescue operation in landslide hit Wayanad

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan conducted a high-level meeting to review the rescue operation in Wayanad, where a devastating landslide killed hundreds of people. The Chief Minister also reviewed the coordination with the central government agencies, the deployment of disaster response forces, health and safety precautions and the facilities in the relief camps.

9:01 PM

Death toll in Kerala's landslide rises to 123

According to government sources nearly 123 persons have died in the devastating landslide happened in Kerala's Wayanad. Meanwhile rescue operations are underway to save trapped persons.

7:00 PM

Lok Sabha passes Union Budget 2024-25

5:21 PM

No state being denied any money, says FM Sitharaman

Opposition has a problem because an ordinary OBC 'chaiwala' is leading the country, FM Nirmala Sitharaman argued today.

5:16 PM

Opposition brewing sense of fear, says Finance Minister

Major highways projects have been announced for Kerala, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

5:11 PM

Have provided substantial assistance to J-K including Rs 12,000 crore towards J&K police, says FM

We have provided substantial financial support of Rs 17,000 crore in the Union Budget of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir this year. It includes Rs 12,000 crore towards financing the cost of Jammu and Kashmir Police.

5:07 PM

FM Sitharaman slams opposition, says 2004-05 Budget did not take name of 17 states

If a state's name is not mentioned in Budget speech, it doesn't mean that no money is given to them, FM Nirmala Sitharaman said today. "I have been picking up on Budget speeches since 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 and so on. The Budget of 2004-2005 did not take the name of 17 states. I would like to ask the members of the UPA government at that time - did money not go to those 17 states? Did they stop it? If they have stopped it, then they have every business to raise questions," Sitharaman added.

5:03 PM

Rs 1.52 trillion spent on social sector, says FM Sitharaman

We are complying with fiscal deficit trajectory; will bring it down to below 4.5 per cent by 2025-26, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated today.

5:01 PM

News update: We shall all work together to make Bharat Viksit by 2047, says FM Sitharaman

4:59 PM

India is the fastest growing economy post-Covid, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

The budget has nowhere given lower allocation than previous budgets, the finance minister asserted in the Lok Sabha today.

4:57 PM

News update: The budget has nowhere given lower allocation than previous budgets, say Finance Minister

4:42 PM

Kerala landslides updates: 84 dead; rain, terrain challenges hinder rescue teams

At least 84 people died in the landslide in Kerala's Wayanad on Tuesday. About 116 people are injured and have been admitted to hospitals in the district. The state's ministers are coordinating relief and rescue operations.

4:37 PM

IAS aspirants' death: Appropriate action will be taken, says Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena

Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena on Tuesday said appropriate action will be taken in connection with the deaths of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre here. "It is a tragic incident. Whatever appropriate action needs to be taken will be taken. I do not believe in taking hasty decisions. Things are slowly coming to light. Whatever steps need to be taken will be taken," he told reporters on the sidelines of flagging off 320 electric buses.

3:41 PM

Fire at garment market in Delhi' Seelampur area, no injuries reported

A fire erupted in a garment market in north-east Delhi's Seelampur area on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The Delhi Fire Service (DFS) received a call about the fire at 1.13 pm and seven fire tenders were dispatched to the scene, according to a DFS official, who added there were no reports of injuries so far. The blaze affected two shops in the market, and the operation to douse the fire is currently underway, the official added.

The civil services aspirants, who are protesting outside Rau's coaching centre in Old Rajinder Nagar on Tuesday went on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding action in the case of the death of three students. One of the protesting students said that ten aspirants have started an indefinite hunger strike till their main demands, including compensation of Rs five crore to the victims' families, are met.

Lok Sabha passes Union Budget 2024-25 after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's reply on the discussion on Budget in Lok Sabha.

At a CII event, Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday argued that the country's economy was in bad shape when the Modi government took charge in 2014.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attending a post-Budget conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) today. At the event, PM Modi said that despite myriad challenges, India is a 'high growth, low inflation' country.

Twenty-six people were killed and several persons were reportedly missing after massive landslides struck the hilly areas near Meppadi in Kerala’s Wayanad district today morning.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Tuesday that all government agencies have joined the search and rescue operations in the wake of massive landslides that struck various hilly areas near Meppadi in Kerala's Wayanad district, leaving hundreds feared to be trapped. A one-year-old child of a Nepali family living in Thondernad village died in a landslide, according to the Wayanad district authorities. The operations will be coordinated, and state ministers will reach the hilly district to lead the rescue activities, Chief Minister Vijayan said in a statement issued by his office. He added that in the wake of the landslides and other rain-related disasters in Wayanad district, the Health Department -- National Health Mission -- has opened a control room.

Two people were killed and 20 others were injured after about 18 coaches of a train bound for Mumbai derailed in Jharkhand early Tuesday morning. The Howara-CSMT Express derailed near Badabamboo, around 80 km from Jamshedpur at around 3.45 am. Railway officials stated that the incident occurred after a goods train coming from the opposite side derailed and impacted the passenger train passing by from the opposite side.

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