Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a high-level virtual meeting with senior ministers and health ministers from seven states that have reported a very high number of cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19). These states and union territories are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, and Punjab. …
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Several prominent Bollywood filmmakers are expected to be in Lucknow on Tuesday to meet with Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath on the possible outlines of the film city project announced by the prime minister on Friday. The filmmakers include Subhash Ghai, Om Raut of Tanhaji fame, Saundarya, daughter of superstar Rajnikanth, …
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Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath spoke with Sunita aron on the state’s increase in the business ease ranking, steps being taken to attract investment, and areas of development that still need work, among other things. Edited excerpts: After a jump from 12th place to second in the national ranking …
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NEW DELHI: On Monday, CBI searched eight locations after booking a Delhi-based dairy company Kwality Ltd and its directors for allegedly misleading a consortium led by the Bank of India, resulting in a loss of more than Rs 1.4 billion, authorities said. The CBI has registered the case against Kwality …
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India’s count of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Sunday crossed the 5.4 million mark with an increase of 92,605 new cases and 1,133 deaths in the past 24 hours. The country has been recording the highest number of cases every day since early August, when it began seeing more than …
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday called on officials to find suitable land to establish the country’s ‘largest’ film city in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district, including the twin cities of Noida and Greater Noida. officials said. The CM gave the instructions during a meeting to review development …
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Uttar Pradesh police have formed a nine-member Special Investigation Team to investigate cases of interfaith marriages in Kanpur, Inspector General Mohit Agarwal said. Agarwal said the SIT has been given 10 days to complete the investigation after a woman’s family claimed she was a victim of “love jihad.” Radical Hindu …
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Written by Maulshree Seth, edited by Explained Desk | Lucknow | Updated: September 16, 2020 7:26:34 am Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, at Lok Bhawan in Lucknow. (Express photo: Vishal Srivastav) Amid the controversy over the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Special Security Force (UPSSF) allowing arrests “without a …
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NEW DELHI: A record 82,961 new Covid-19 recoveries were reported on Wednesday, nearly a quarter of them in Maharashtra alone, pushing the overall figures to close to 39.5 lakh and the recovery rate to 78.53 percent, showed data from the Ministry of Health. In its figures updated at 8 a.m. …
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In Dispatch 156, I wrote about why it didn’t make sense to use rapid antigen tests all the time, or to rely too much on them, as Delhi is still. In short, these tests return too many false negative results (identifying an infected person as not infected) to be reliable. …
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