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Dharwad District Commissioner declares one-day holiday for schools due to rain
Punjab suffered losses of nearly Rs 1,000 crore due to floods, says CM Mann
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Sunday that the state suffered estimated losses of nearly Rs 1,000 crore due to recent floods. A detailed report on the losses will be sent to the Union government and a relief package will be sought, he said.
An on-ground assessment of the losses will be done and people will be provided compensation, he said. Several districts of Punjab and Haryana were battered by heavy rains this month that left normal life paralysed and flooded vast tracts of agricultural land and residential areas.
PM Modi's proposal for full G20 membership to African Union draws overwhelming response: Kant
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposal to make the African Union a permanent member of the G-20 has received an overwhelming response from the grouping, India's G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said. In an interview to PTI, the top negotiator said that India was "very hopeful" of the African continental body receiving full membership of the G-20 during New Delhi's presidency of the grouping.
Last month, Modi wrote to the leaders of the world's 20 largest economies pitching for giving the African Union full membership of the grouping at its upcoming summit in New Delhi.
Yamuna's water level recorded above danger mark at 206.35 meters at 6 pm today
AAP stages protest in UP's Meerut against atrocities on women in ethnic violence-hit Manipur
The AAP staged a protest here on Sunday after a video purportedly shot on May 4 surfaced online last week, showing two women being paraded naked in Manipur, and raised slogans against the BJP-led central and Manipur governments.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers gathered at the Kashi toll plaza and raised slogans against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. During the protest led by the Uttar Pradesh unit chief of the AAP's Yuva Sangharsh Samiti, Vanshraj Dubey, and district president Ankush Chowdhary, the party workers expressed displeasure over the misbehaviour meted out to women in ethnic violence-hit Manipur.
NIA raids homes of five absconding POs, suspects across 21 locations in Tamil Nadu in PFI conspiracy case
NSG team visits Shimla eatery rocked by explosion
A team of the National Security Guard (NSG) on Sunday visited the eatery on Mall Road where a gas leak apparently led to a blast, killing one person and injuring 13 others. The blast occurred on Tuesday evening at Himachali Rasoi restaurant, known for serving Himachali cuisines, located in Middle Bazaar adjacent to the fire brigade office in the heart of the city. Police said the blast was apparently caused by a gas leak. A team from the National Bomb Data Centre of the NSG has come for the post-blast investigation to find out the cause of the explosion, Director General of Police Sanjay Kundu told PTI.
Rescue operation underway by NDRF team after a child fell into a borewell in Nalanda
Water level rises in Godavari in Telangana
Hirakud dam authorities release season's first floodwater
12 killed, 40 missing in Afghanistan flash flood
Yellow alert in 6 districts of Kerala
Magnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes Afghanistan
DCW chief Swati Maliwal to visit Manipur
NIA conducts searches in TN over former PMK functionary's killing
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First Published: Jul 23 2023 | 9:33 AM IST