Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Upendra Kushwaha makes big gain days after RLSP-JDU merger, nominated to Legislative Council

Less than a week after Upendra Kushwaha merged the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) with the Janata Dal (United), the Nitish Kumar-led government recommended to the Governor to nominate him to the Legislative Council.

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Baby girl born in IndiGo's Bengaluru-Jaipur flight mid-air

A baby girl was born on board IndiGo's Bengaluru-Jaipur flight mid-air on Wednesday morning with the help of cabin crew and a doctor, according to an airline statement.

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MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashes during take off, Group Captain dies

A Group Captain of the Indian Air Force was killed in an accident involving a MiG-21 Bison aircraft at an airbase in central India on Wednesday, the IAF said.

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‘Disrupts sleep, creates disturbance’: Allahabad University VC seeks ban on use of loudspeakers for Azaan

Sangeeta Srivastava, the Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad Central University, Prayagraj, has written a letter to the District Magistrate urging a ban on the use of loudspeakers for Azaan in the morning. Sangeeta said that her sleep is disrupted due to loud Azaan and it only adds to noise pollution. Sangeeta lives in the Civil Lines area of Prayagraj.

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THESE 5 states account for over 70 per cent of daily COVID-19 infections

Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a high number of daily COVID-19 cases, accounting for 71.10 per cent of the 28,903 new infections, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. It said 83.91 per cent of the new cases are from Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Maharashtra alone accounts for 61.8 per cent of the daily new cases with 17,864 cases. It is followed by Kerala with 1,970 while Punjab reported 1,463 new cases, the ministry said.

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Opinion | Yogi Adityanath has taken up a big task of removing illegally built religious shrines in UP

The UP government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has embarked upon a gigantic task of demolishing more than 40,000 religious shrines like temples, mosques and mazaars (tombs) built illegally on government land. This follows an order from the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court dated June 3, 2016, in which the state government was asked to remove or shift these illegal shrines that were built by encroaching on public property after January 1, 2011.

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BJP leader and former Union minister Dilip Gandhi dies of Covid-19 at Delhi hospital

Former Union minister and BJP leader Dilip Gandhi passed away at a private hospital in Delhi on Wednesday, news agency ANI reported. The 70-year-old had tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday. 

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Republic Day 2024: French band, marching contingent and Rafale jets participate in parade | WATCH

Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...