INDIA
Govt allots Rs 2.2L cr for health, Rs 35k cr for Covid vaccines
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the 'PM Aatmanirbhar Swastha Bharat', to be launched with an outlay of Rs 64,180 crore over six years.
FM announces scrapping of personal vehicles beyond 20 years
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that vehicles will undergo fitness test in automated fitness centres after 20 years (personal vehicles) and 15 years (commercial vehicles).
Yogi govt aims to make PDS free from corruption
According to the government spokesman, the government has implemented the online ration card management system across the state and all the data of over 40 lakh beneficiaries of Antyodaya Yojana and about 3.17 crore cardholders of eligible household beneficiaries have been digitised.
Major fire at private hospital in Odisha's Cuttack
A total of seven fire tenders were pressed into service to tackle the blaze in the multi-storey building of Sun Hospital. The exact cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. All patients were shifted to SCB Medical College and Hospital and other health facilities in ambulances.
Fresh row over Mhadei: Opposition wants Goa CM's resignation
The row broke late on Sunday, after senior counsel Arvind Datar, who was holding brief for Goa in the Mhadei dispute case in the apex court, told a local news channel that in 2019 he had been directed by the Goa government to not object to Karnataka's plea to the Supreme Court seeking directions to the central government to notify the award of the Mhadei Water Dispute Tribunal.
India urges Myanmar to uphold democracy after coup
A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi said that the government was monitoring the situation closely. "India has always been steadfast in its support to the process of democratic transition in Myanmar," the government said. Monday's coup came just two months after State Counsellor Aung Sun Suu Kyi's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept the November 8, 2020, general elections in Myanmar.
Minimum temperatures improve across Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh
Extreme cold lashed the valley on Sunday and the minimum temperature was minus 8.8 in Srinagar, the lowest in last 30 years and the maximum was only 0.6. Locals have been complaining that all drinking water pipes, even those brands otherwise claiming to withstand minus 25 degrees and less, have burst.
Locals near Ghazipur protest only vexed by traffic snarls, internet shutdown
On January 29, a group of men claiming to be local residents of Singhu area near the Delhi-Haryana border got past three layers of security barricades, raised slogans, and asked the protesters to vacate the area claiming that it is affecting their livelihood. This was followed by a major faceoff.
BJP men attack TRS MLA's house over remarks on Ram temple
Police said some BJP leaders and workers attacked the legislator of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) with stones and eggs. BJP leaders and activists of Warangal Urban and Warangal Rural districts were allegedly involved in the attack. The attackers broke windowpanes and damaged furniture.
Delhi Congress passes resolution for Rahul Gandhi as party chief
The two other resolutions demanded the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for their "mishandling" of the farmers' tractor rally and the resultant violence in Delhi, and alleged Kejriwal was also responsible for the present "state of ruin" in Delhi.
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