PM Modi took stock of the situation in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam where a gas leak from a chemical plant has left six dead and prayed for people’s safety and well-being. The prime minister wrote on Twitter that he spoke with Union Home Ministry officials and National Disaster Management Authority regarding the situation “which is being monitored closely.” “I pray for everyone’s safety and well-being in Visakhapatnam,” he said. At least six people have died and nearly 100 hospitalised after a gas leak at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam in the early hours of Thursday.
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A major gas leak at the LG Polymers chemical plant in Visakhapatnam has left thirteen people dead, including a child. Hundreds of villagers were rushed to nearby hospitals in Visakhapatnam with complaints of headache, vomiting and breathing problems. https://twitter.com/imnoor91/status/1258242611636133888?s=20 The Visakhapatnam gas leak took place at LG Polymers chemical plant around 2.30 am on Thursday. The death toll has now gone up to eight and the evacuation process is still on in the nearby areas. A six-year-old is among the eight people who have lost their lives after inhaling poisonous gas leaked from LG Polymers plant at RR Venkatapuram, Gopalapatnam,…
A top Hizbul Mujahideen commander, on the run eight years, was on Wednesday killed in an encounter with security forces in his home village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said. The Jammu and Kashmir authorities have already snapped mobile internet services across the valley as a precautionary measure, in anticipation of a possible a law and order problem, police said, adding that there are strict restrictions on the movement of individuals . Riyaz Naikoo, operational commander of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen, was trapped in Beighpora village in Pulwama, the officials said. A police spokesperson said earlier within the morning that…
The Yogi Adityanath government has decided to increase the prices of liquor, petrol and diesel in the state in order to generate additional revenue. Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Khanna told reporters that the government will generate an additional Rs 2,350 crore through liquor and Rs 2,070 crore through the increase in the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel. The revised rates will come into effect from midnight on Wednesday. The minister said that petrol prices will increase by Rs two per litre while diesel prices will go up by Rs one per litre. Petrol in the state…
A 45-year-old patient beat end-stage oral cancer after he was quickly shifted to the national capital from Uttar Pradesh”s Kanpur district to get medical intervention amidst nation-wide lockdown. When Jaspal”s tumor began to bleed, his oncologist informed him he needed immediate surgery. However, he was unable to avail surgical facilities in Kanpur and needed to travel to New Delhi for them. Jaspal said: “I had almost lost all hope, but Kanpur”s Gurudwara Committee, Dukh Niwaran Sewa Society and the DM”s office worked together to ensure I reached Delhi on time and was provided the necessary treatment.” The Gurudwara Committee, Kanpur…
Talking about a new “world order” and calling for action against those responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic that infected millions across the globe, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took a dig at China, without naming it, here on Wednesday. In a rare interaction with the foreign media, through video link, RSS Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said India was set to take the lead in the post-Covid-19 world. “Hopefully, a detailed inquiry will be carried out to find the pandemic”s origin, reason and impact. The world should come together to…
As the Karnataka government was yet to intimate the railways authorities to operate more Shramik special trains to ferry thousands of stranded migrant workers to their respective states, the process came to a halt on Wednesday. The situation seems set to repeat on Thursday as well. About 9,600 migrants have been sent on trains to their native places in western, northern and eastern states from May 3 to 5. Thousands are still stranded across the southern state. “We have not received any intimation from the state government to operate more special trains on Wednesday or Thursday, though we are ready…
If you thought the war of words between the Centre and the West Bengal government was over, you are wrong. On Wednesday, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla wrote another letter to Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha pointing out how the Inter-Ministerial Team that visited the state found brazen violations including people playing football and bathing in rivers while a complete lockdown was in force. “Instances of overcrowding in bazaars, with poor sanitation; free movement of people in large numbers without masks; bathing of people in rivers; people playing cricket and football; serious laxity in enforcing lockdown measures in Containment Zones; plying…
Multi-billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has posted the first picture of his newly-born son in response to demand coming from his fans, naming the baby ”X Æ A-12 Musk”. Musk and his girlfriend Canadian singer Claire Boucher aka Grimes welcomed their first child together on Monday. In response to a follower’s tweet asking them to name the baby, Musk said: ”X Æ A-12 Musk,” making netizens to speculate on the meaning and pronunciation of the unique name. Grimes confirmed the name, and explained the meaning in another tweet: “X is the ”the unknown variable”, Æ is her ”elven spelling of…
IIM-Udaipur has announced 18 management courses free of cost on its online learning platform Coursera to ensure uninterrupted learning during the nationwide lockdown for its batch of 2019-21. The courses are offered as elective and voluntary under domains such as Operations, HR, Marketing, Finance, Analytics, etc. The coronavirus scare had disrupted educational institutes” functioning, delayed internships of students, and disturbed the academic calendars of B-Schools. Against this backdrop, Indian Institute of Management-Udaipur has taken the lead in demonstrating the B-School”s strong faculty-driven culture, ensuring students continue their learning. IIM-U Director Prof Janat Shah said: “Across the world, education systems were…