Tag: Uttar pradesh news
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BJP MLA’s son caught red-handed accepting Rs 40L bribe in K’taka
Bengaluru – The chief accountant of Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), Prashanth Madal, was caught red-handed by the Karnataka Lokayukta officials while accepting a bribe of Rs 40 lakh on Thursday. Prashanth is the son of sitting BJP MLA from Channagiri Assembly constituency, K. Madal Virupakshappa. With Karnataka set to go to the polls…
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Interest rate in Pakistan hiked by 300 bps to 27-year high
Karachi – The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday raised the benchmark interest rate by a significant 300 basis points (bps) to 20 per cent as Pakistan is desperate to unlock the critical $1.1 billion funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), media reports said. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) – which was constituted as…
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Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorist act in Russian village
Moscow- Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that a Ukrainian sabotage group entered a Russian border region on Thursday and opened fire on civilians in a “terrorist act”, according to a media report. Earlier, the Governor of Bryansk region had said that “saboteurs from Ukraine” had fired at a civilian car in Lyubechane, a border village,…
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Floods raise cholera risk even as cases decline in Africa: WHO
Brazzaville (Congo) – As weekly cholera cases in the affected African countries decline, heavy flooding due to seasonal rains and tropical cyclones in southern Africa are raising the risk of the disease spreading and threatening to undermine outbreak control efforts, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday. Newly-confirmed cholera cases fell to 2,880 in the…
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Kenya loses 2.61 mn livestock to drought
Nairobi – Kenya has lost some 2.61 million livestock to drought in the past months as the crisis worsens in arid and semi-arid areas, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) said in a report on Thursday. The NDMA said the number is about 5 per cent of all the animals in arid and semi-arid areas, which…
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Alcoholic man poisons wife, two daughters to death in Bengaluru
Bengaluru – In a shocking incident, a man killed his wife and two daughters by lacing their food with poison in the Konanakunte police station limits in Bengaluru. The deceased have been identified as Vijayalakshmi (28), Nisha (7) and Deeksha (5). The husband, Nagendra, who was reportedly depressed after being detected with cancer, also tried to…
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Told Russian counterpart to end war and engage in meaningful diplomacy: Blinken
New Delhi – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said that he urged Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to end the Ukraine war and engage in meaningful diplomacy. Addressing a press conference after the day-long deliberations at the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting, Blinken, while referring to his brief unscheduled meeting with his Russian…
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Delhi LG approves committee to prevent unauthorised prison telephony
New Delhi – Delhi Lt Governor V.K. Saxena has approved the constitution of a high level committee to suggest ways and identify means to address the issue of illegal telephone communication in the jails in the national capital. The committee will submit its recommendations within a month. The committee constituted under DG (Prisons) will explore…
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BJP-NDPP retain power in Nagaland, Congress again draws blank
Kohima – The ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained power in Nagaland for a second successive term by winning 37 seats together in the 60-member state Assembly, for which elections were held on February 27. The Congress, which governed the state for many years till 2003, had contested…
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MP: Cong opposes move to go digital in Assembly; returns iPads
Bhopal – The opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday opposed the introduction of a digitalised system in the Assembly during the ongoing Budget Session with all legislators being provided iPads, citing various reasons. Senior Congress leaders including the party’s Madhya Pradesh unit chief Kamal Nath and Leader of Opposition Govind Singh have returned their iPads…