INDIA
UP registers 57.58%, Punjab 63.44% polling till 5 pm
In Uttar Pradesh, third phase polling was held in 59 Assembly seats spread over 16 districts. Lalitpur district recorded the highest polling at 67.37 per cent followed by Etah with 63 per cent, and Mahoba 62.01 per cent till 5 p.m. Kanpur Nagar district reported lowest turnout at 50.88 per cent till 5 p.m.
Relations with China are going through a very difficult phase: Jaishankar
"It's a problem we are having with China; and the problem is this: that for 45 years there was peace, there was stable border management, there were no military casualties from 1975. That changed because we had agreements with China not to bring military forces to border, we call it border but it's a line of actual control, and the Chinese violated those agreements. Now state of the border will determine the state of the relationship. So obviously relations with China are going through a very difficult phase."
PM Modi inaugurates Asia's biggest Bio-CNG plant in Indore
"Whether it is the wet waste that comes out of the houses in the city, the garbage from the livestock and farms in the village, all this is gobar dhan in a way. From city's waste and livestock to gobar dhan, from gobar dhan to clean fuel and again from clean fuel to energy, the chain creates Jivan Dhan", PM Modi said. "Millions of tonnes of garbage have been engulfing thousands of acres of similar land for decades in cities across the country", he said.
Indian embassy in Kuwait slams Congress MP Shashi Tharoor for sharing tweet of pro-Pak propagandist
The Indian Embassy official twitter account rapped Tharoor for sharing the post of a twitter handle who happens to be a recipient of Pakistan’s Ambassador of Peace award in 2020 and is known for anti-Indian activities. The original post sharing the letter calling for ban on the BJP members was tweeted by Mejbel Al Sharika, a Kuwaiti lawyer and Director of International Human Rights.
PM says Bullet train vital for India and Mumbai's identity
"The Ahmedabad-Mumbai High-Speed Rail is the country's need and it will strengthen Mumbai's identity as the City of Dreams. Completing this project rapidly is our priority," said Modi. The Prime Minister was virtually inaugurating two additional railway lines linking Thane-Diva and flagging off two suburban trains in the presence of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Railway Minister Ashwini Vainshnaw and others.
India vaccinates over 80% eligible population with both doses
"Sabko Vaccine Muft Vaccine! India has crossed the historic figure of administering both doses of the corona vaccine to 80% of its adult population. With the mantra of Sabka Prayas under the leadership Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country is moving at a fast pace towards 100 per cent immunisation against the coronavirus", the Minister said in the tweet.
'Yogi' fraud case: CBI grills NSE ex-CEO Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna, who reached the Mumbai office of the CBI in the afternoon to record her statements, is being questioned by a team of senior officials, including one woman. According to sources, the CBI has asked her around 50 questions, including how long she had been sending mails to the "yogi", was she given any cut for sharing classified information, if so, where she invested this money.
Lookout circular for Chitra Ramakrishna, 2 others
Sources told IANS that Ramakrishna and the other two were flight risks and hence the Lookout Circular (LOC). Arrests in the case are now more likely to happen, said the source. The CBI is currently grilling Chitra Ramakrishna at one of its offices in Mumbai. She was earlier called by the CBI to join the investigation immediately.
Kumar Vishwas' separatism charge against Arvind Kejriwal: Punjab CM asks PM Modi to order probe, Rahul Gandhi asks Delhi CM to break silence
“As CM of Punjab, I request Hon'ble PM @narendramodi Ji to order an impartial enquiry in the matter of @DrKumarVishwas Ji’s video. Politics aside, people of Punjab have paid a heavy price while fighting separatism. Hon’ble PM needs to address the worry of every Punjabi,” CM Channi tweeted. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday criticised Arvind Kejriwal for his silence over allegations levelled against him by Kumar Vishwas.
Watch | Punjab CM Channi uses 'Bhaiyya' jibe for people of UP, Bihar,
“Don't let Bhaiyyas from UP, Bihar, Delhi, enter Punjab,” CM Channi passed the comment during an election rally in Ropar, Punjab. Priyanka Vadra is the congress-in-charge for the upcoming elections in UP. “Bhaiyya” is considered an offensive, disparaging classist slur used to refer to people of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who work as contract labourers and farmers in Punjab.
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