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In the wake of The Indian Express investigation that discovered evident gaps in Covid-19 testing information, the Bihar Health Department introduced the setting up of 10 teams to randomly confirm testing information from throughout all of the state’s 38 districts. While the state continues to be testing about 20,000 RT-PCR samples per day, districts have been informed not to “rush to meet goal”.
Exactly two years in the past, information present, the two power projects hit by the glacial flood burst in Uttarakhand final Sunday have been in a listing of 13 flagged at a gathering within the Prime Minister’s Office. Less than three weeks after that PMO assembly, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlining the hydroelectricity’s significance for the state’s vitality safety and employment.
Former union minister P Chidambaram writes: “Andolanjeevis will in the end prevail over those that will suppress speech, writing, expression, dissent, protests, agitations or actions.”
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ED officers tenting on the residence of NewsClick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and writer Githa Haraharan lastly accomplished their search on the fifth day. Usually, ED searches recover from inside a pair of days. Officials claimed the raid continued as a result of of “technical points”.
The coalition of J&Okay’s mainstream events that contested the District (*10*) Council elections collectively had managed to safe management of solely 5 of the 10 councils in Kashmir regardless of successful the utmost seats. In Jammu, the coalition in addition to the Congress failed to get a single council with six of the 10 DDCs going to the BJP.
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Every week after a flash flood struck Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, The Sunday Express travels alongside the route of the devastation to discover that because the raging water destroyed every little thing that got here in its manner — properties, projects, bushes, lives — it left behind a couple of classes, and a number of other questions
With temperatures rising over the previous week within the nationwide capital, farmers and coordinators on the Singhu protest website are preparing for his or her second change of season. “Our village has collected round Rs. 1.5 lakh in funds. Once it will get hotter, we are going to buy an AC and generator,” says a farmer.
Five individuals together with an worldwide referee and two ladies wrestlers have been shot lifeless in chilly blood by a disgruntled former worker of a wrestling academy in Haryana. The shooter was faraway from his job after going through allegations of harassing a girl wrestler.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed Lok Sabha that Jammu and Kashmir can be granted statehood at an “applicable time.” Shah additionally mentioned that it’s a “delicate half of the nation” which has been “wounded many occasions” and it’s the “obligation of this House to apply balm on it, and never scratch it”.
The Supreme Court has dismissed petitions looking for assessment of its judgment of the Shaheen Bagh anti-CAA protests case, reiterating that the Constitutional assure of the correct to protest comes with sure duties and there can’t be continued occupation of a public place in case of extended dissent or protest.
In a video broadly shared on social media, Haryana Agriculture Minister J P Dalal is purportedly heard responding to a media question on over 200 farmers’ deaths throughout the ongoing stir and commenting that they’d have died even when that they had stayed back dwelling.
Petrol worth in Mumbai neared file Rs 95 per litre mark on Saturday as its fee in addition to diesel costs have been hiked for the fifth day in a row.
The seaplane service of SpiceJet from Ahmedabad to Kevadia launched in October final 12 months has been suspended for the third time because it has gone for upkeep to its dwelling nation Maldives.
And Finally
This Valentine’s Day, The Sunday Eye seems at how India loves, by way of the tales of 4 {couples} who’ve overcome odds to be collectively. The first is about how a same-sex couple met at a mental-health centre, hit it off, and have been striving to search social acceptance and authorized proper to marry and stay like heterosexual {couples}.
Inside Track: Why would Uddhav Thackeray’s authorities select to embarrass Maharashtra’s icons Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar by ordering an inquiry into their tweets in defence of the Centre’s farm insurance policies? The object isn’t to goal the Bharat Ratna awardees, however an try to show that some individuals within the BJP’s publicity wing had entry to the social media accounts of the VIPs and have been tweeting on their behalf.
