204 persons are listed as missing after the Chamoli avalanche. Uttarakhand Police have performed the last rites of more than a dozen unidentified bodies and ten body parts a week a snow avalanche hit Chamoli district and triggered a flash flood which left 204 persons missing.Director General of Police, Uttarakhand, Ashok Kumar, said 38 bodies and 19 body parts have been recovered from different places.Also read: Uttarakhand flood disaster: Rescue teams start widening hole in Tapovan tunnel to reach trapped people “The bodies and body parts had started deteriorating. As per the procedure after waiting for 72 hours (for a…
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Former Congress chief continues offensive against BJP on second day of 2-day visit to Rajasthan Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the enactment of the agriculture sector laws by the Centre amounted to a ploy to break the country’s backbone and give the control over farming to corporates. The process began with demonetisation, after which the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was brought in an arbitrary manner, he said.Mr. Gandhi continued with his offensive against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre on the last day of his two-day visit to Rajasthan. He addressed a “tractor sabha”…
The appointment of the 73-year-old known as “Super Mario” capped weeks of political instability for the country still in the grips of the health crisis that has killed more than 93,000 people Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi was formally sworn in as Italy’s new prime minister on Saturday, against the backdrop of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and a crippling recession.The appointment of the 73-year-old known as “Super Mario” capped weeks of political instability for the country still in the grips of the health crisis that has killed more than 93,000 people. “I swear to be loyal to the…
There are more fatalities from road crashes among poor families rather than the rich shows a new World Bank study that highlights the socio-economic impact of road accidents — from access to post-accident medical care to coping with the financial distress caused by a mishap.In the study, low income households reported twice the numbers of deaths post-crash vis-à-vis high income households. The risk of a victim undergoing disability after a crash was also two times more likely among poor families.Road accidents also led to a sharper decline in total household income among low-income households, where it was as high as…
The quake hits off Fukushima just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the March 11, 2011 quake that devastated northeast Japan A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings and triggering widespread blackouts, but there appeared to be no major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.The epicentre was off the coast of Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 60 kilometres (36 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It hit at 11:08 p.m. local time (7.38 p.m. IST) and shook buildings in the capital Tokyo and elsewhere.No tsunami…
The Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanams (TTD) has written to the Union government seeking COVID-19 vaccination to its frontline employees who are managing thousands of devotees each day at Tirumala, its Chairman Y.V. Subba Reddy said in Chennai on Saturday.Mr. Reddy told The Hindu that 2,500 employees handling queues, counters, security, darshan etc were identified as frontline warriors since an average of 55,000 devotees were visiting the hill temple daily.“We have written to the government of India to include our staff in the list of frontline corona warriors who are managing the pandemic. We are also pursuing the matter with the State…
In the view of the PLA think tank, India carried on with some aspects of what it inherited from British As India and China on February 10 began the first steps of implementing a disengagement plan after more than nine months of a tense stand-off at multiple points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the causes of last year’s border crisis still remain a mystery.Top Indian officials, including External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, have said publicly that China was yet to offer “a credible explanation” for the deployment last summer of an unprecedented number of troops so close to…
SC and ST communities have significantly poor acceptance rate although reservation-mandated seats for OBCs were filled Students from the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities have significantly poor representation and acceptance rate in Ph.D programmes at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, analysis of data obtained through the Right to Information (RTI) Act revealed.The analysis was based on data provided by IIT Madras regarding 2,195 admissions made from 54,462 applicants in the five-year period from 2015 to 2019. The data showed that SC students numbered only 7.6% and STs were just 1.2%. The reservation policy requires that…
In five days this week, price has gone up by ₹1.51 per litre for petrol while diesel rate has risen by ₹1.56 a litre. Petrol price in Mumbai neared record ₹95 per litre mark on Saturday as its rate as well as diesel prices were hiked for the fifth day in a row. Petrol price was increased by 30 paise per litre and diesel by 36 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. This took petrol price to an all-time high of ₹88.414 a litre in Delhi while diesel rate climbed to ₹78.74. In Mumbai,…
The DMK president alleged that the government had resorted to malpractices in the finalisation of tenders right from the procurement of bleaching powder to purchase of medicines DMK president M.K. Stalin on Saturday said that time was fast approaching for the AIADMK government to suffer a serious debacle in the forthcoming Assembly polls, since the people are totally disenchanted with the present administration. Speaking at ‘Ungal Thogudhiyil Stalin’ (Stalin in your constituency), a poll outreach programme at Virudhachalam assembly constituency in Cuddalore district, he said that the AIADMK regime had let down the people without taking care of them during…