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In the pre-budget consultation meeting chaired by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman over videoconference, state finance minister Niranjan Pujari sought Rs 7,200 crore in the forthcoming Union budget for developing railway infrastructure in Odisha.

The air quality was recorded in the 'very poor' category in Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida and Faridabad while it was 'poor' in Gurugram on Monday, according to data issued by a government agency.

The number of people getting vaccinated for Covid-19 almost doubled in a single day, with 477 healthcare workers getting the jab on Monday.

Expelled BJP functionary Ram Bihari Rathore, arrested last week on charges of child sexual abuse, had been involved in various criminal and anti-social activities for the past six-seven years, a senior police official said on Monday.

A 36-year-old Indian-origin man who was too scared to fly due to the coronavirus pandemic and lived undetected for nearly three months in a secure area of Chicago's international airport has been arrested, US authorities said. Aditya Singh lives in a suburb of Los Angeles, California, was arrested on Saturday for living in a secure area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport since October 19, the Chicago Tribune reported on Sunday. Singh has been charged with felony criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport and misdemeanour theft... Читать дальше...

While the health department had fixed a target to vaccinate 2,240 healthcare workers at 24 centres including government hospitals and medical colleges in the district, only 45% people turned up. On the first day of the drive held on Saturday, the department had a target to cover 508 people through the vaccination drive held at six centres, but only 229 (45%) people received the shots and 62 had refused to get a vaccine.

After a day’s break on Sunday, the vaccination drive will resume in the state on Monday. More session sites, covering a higher number of beneficiaries, will become operational from tomorrow.

In 2012, when eriophyid coconut mite infested coconut plantations, most of the coconut farmers decided to chop the trees off. K Ponraj Prabhu, a farmer from Pannimadai in Coimbatore district stopped the usage of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides on his farmland hoping that the trees would recover on its own.

Siddaramaiah said Union home minister Amit Shah said Yediyurappa would continue as CM only because no party high command would say that it will remove its CM. “But my sources in the RSS have claimed change in leadership,” he added.

Hailing Modi’s pro-poor policies and Yediyurappa’s decisions in Karnataka, Shah said the duo has been working tirelessly towards developing the state. The statement is being read by Yediyurappa loyalists as continued reaffirmation of the central leadership’s confidence in the CM, despite dissidence within the state unit over choice of new ministers and questions over his political future.

Residents living in more than 15 housing societies in new sectors have come together to solve the garbage woes and vowed to adopt sustainable waste management practices. The residents of Sare Homes in Sector 92, along with the United Association of New Gurugram, started a campaign — Swachh New Gurugram — under its ‘community connect 1.0’ programme on Sunday which was launched by Badshapur MLA Rakesh Daultabad and Dheeraj Kumar, joint commissioner for Swachh Bharat Mission