PM Modi will open the 306-km New Rewari-New Madar segment of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor today. This information comes from Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Tuesday. The opening of the event will take place virtually through video conferencing. PM Modi will also flag off the world’s first 1.5-km long-haul, double-stack container train operated by electric traction from New Ateli-New Kishangarh. The governors and CM of Rajasthan and Haryana, along with the railway minister Piyush Goyal, will be present on the occasion. The New Rewari-New Madar portion of the WDFC is based in Haryana (approximately 79 km in Mahendragarh and…
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The Bhartiya Janata Party government led by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa in Karnataka took the ordinance route to save the cattle from slaughtering. Having cleared by the governor, the Karnataka cabinet’s order to stop killing cattle came into effect from today. The ordinance opens the way to penalise anyone for killing cattle and defends “acting in good faith” to save them. The Legislative Council is yet to clear up a bill on this. The BJP has hailed the ordinance as a big leap in protecting cattle in the state. Anyone found guilty of slaughtering cattle will be jailed for 3-7…
TMC Minister Laxmi Ratan Shukla quit from Mamata Banerjee-led government and party yesterday. His resignation comes at a time when stalwarts of the party like Suvendu Adhikari had quit the party along with a dozen other MLAs to join the Bhartiya Janata Party. The former batsman who joined the Bengal political arena in 2016 contested from North Howrah Constituency ticket for the TMC, had written to Party chief Mamata Banerjee that he wanted to leave politics only to pursue his career in cricket. “I have requested the governor to accept his resignation,” Ms Banerjee said. TMC ruled by Mamata Banerjee…
Kashmir was stop from remainder of the country for the second consecutive day on Tuesday because the arterial Jammu-Srinagar national highway and Mughal road remained closed, while traffic was suspended thanks to snowfall across the valley. Nearly 4500 vehicles, mostly trucks carrying essentials to the valley, are stranded along the highway at various places. “The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway is closed thanks to accumulation of snow at many places, especially around Jawahar Tunnel,” a politician of the control department said. He said snow clearance operations were fully swing and efforts were on to revive movement of stranded vehicles along the 260…
In yet one more example of shattering of the proverbial ceiling , the primary batch of over 100 women disaster combatants and rescuers has been inducted within the country’s federal calamity force NDRF. An all-woman team of freshly trained National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel was recently deployed for contingency duties on the banks of the Ganga river in Uttar Pradesh’s Garh Mukteshwar town, a senior force officer said. “The first women rescuers’ team is already on ground. Recently, the UP government requisitioned an NDRF team and that they (women) went there (Garh Mukteshwar). The team handled the rescue boats…
On Tuesday, Dell Technologies announced in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and Tata Trusts that they have developed a mobile non-communicable disease (NCD) management application at government primary health centers (PHCs) across the world. The mobile app will strengthen the existing NCD IT system’s suite of six applications for accredited social health activists (ASHAs), auxiliary nurse midwifes (ANMs), doctors, programme managers and health officials in the government. “We believe in transforming lives with technology and aim to impact 1 billion lives globally by 2030. Our ongoing association with MoHFW and Tata Trusts is to work…
In connection with a forgery case involving notorious weapons dealer Abhishek Verma and Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, India’s premier investigative agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation, has knocked on the doors of the Delhi High Court seeking permission to investigate a foreign national. A single-judge bench of the high court presided over by Justice Yogesh Khanna has now posted the applications filed by the investigator for further hearing on January 27. The plea challenged the order of the trial court order dated October 23 last year whereby the application for examining C.Edmond Allen — a foreign national — through video…
Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has turned 35 today. To wish their closest colleague in the industry, actress Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif posted their wishes through social networking sites which have garnered maximum views. Deepika on her birthday, Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif went to Instagram. Katrina posted, “Happy Happy happiest birthday to u @deepikapadukone Wishing u all the love, peace and joy life has to offer,” posting breath-taking images of the birthday girl.” Whereas, with Deepika hinting at their Ranthambore trip, Alia Bhatt hoped for some more “random adventures. Netizens have loaded the social media with their wishes for…
In order to try to cut surging infection rates, England will impose complete lockdown, most likely until mid-February, PM Boris Johnson said on Monday. The complete lockdown would mean that the schools, including primary and secondary schools would be shut down. The move comes after Scotland announced similar steps would come into force on Tuesday at midnight onwards. About 44 million inhabitants, or three-quarters of England’s population, are now living under the hardest constraints, as Britain is grappling with one of the highest mortality rates. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has explained that nearly 27,000 patients with Covid were in the…
Harvard University astronomer found out that that an extraterrestrial object skimmed through space near Earth in 2017. Harvard professor Avi Loeb, in his book ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Evidence of Intelligent Life Outside Earth’ to be written this month, said it was the first sign of intelligent life outside of Earth. According to the marketing summary of the book, scientists at the Hawaiian Observatory saw “an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have been from another star.” The object, named 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua’ by Nasa, was not a natural occurrence, but a bit…