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The state stands as a national front-runner with a rate of 10,000 cataract surgeries per 10 lakh population. The state is already ahead of the 2023-24 target with an 81 per cent completion, performing 1,23,975 surgeries.The ‘Rashtriya Netra Jyoti Abhiyan’ is a three-year campaign of the Government of India, aimed at reducing blindness prevalence to 0.25 per cent by May 2025. Individuals aged 50 and above, who are blind or visually impaired due to cataract, are entitled to free surgeries.Aligned with the Central government’s initiative, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel launched the ‘Cataract Blindness-Free Gujarat’ campaign in 2022. More than…

A source told IANS that they use this app to communicate with their associates.Sources also revealed that Dalla hacked the Facebook ID of a Punjab-based girl, which he used to connect with Indian gangsters, namely Neeraj Bawana, Lawrence Bishnoi, the Bambiha gang, and their aides.The source mentioned that two gangsters, Sunny Dagar and Jagjit a.k.a. Jassa, were in touch with Dalla.During the investigation, the police learned that although Dalla is said to be based in Canada, he uses IP addresses from the Philippines and Pakistan.”Jagjit Singh a.k.a. Jagga was in constant touch with terrorist Arshdeep Singh a.k.a. Arsh Dalla. The…

It was Abhilash Shetty (3-17) and Sharan Goud (2-24), who set up the Gulbarga Mystics’ win which was followed by top-order batsman Chethan’s essential contribution, who scored a quickfire 36 off 24 balls. Earlier in the day, Gulbarga Mystics put Bengaluru Blasters to bat. The team’s decision worked like magic with Abhilash Shetty sending D Nischal (1) and skipper Mayank Agarwal (4) back to the dugout within the third over. At the end of the Power-play, the Blasters were reeling at 43/2. With the runs drying up, Pavan Deshpande (14) and Jeswanth Acharya (29) came together to construct a critical…

External debt is a component of Central government’s overall debt.According to the Finance Ministry, Central government’s debt was Rs 58.6 lakh crore (52.2 per cent of GDP) as on March 31, 2014, which went up by 174 per cent to Rs 155.6 lakh crore (57.1 per cent of GDP) as on March 31, 2023.Similarly, the government’s external debt was Rs 3,74,484 crore in 2013-14, which shot up by 100 per cent to Rs 7,48,895 crore in 2022-23.Government’s external debt is financed mainly by multilateral and bilateral agencies.Meanwhile, between 2019-20 and 2020-21, there was a sharp rise of 16 per cent…

While Suryakumar Yadav was the top scorer for India with his 61 off 45, it was Axar Patel’s little cameo of 13 off 10 which took India through to a fighting total of 165/9 in 20 overs.India got off to a poor start as Akeal Hosein removed both openers — Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill — in quick succession, leaving India 17/2 within three overs.Then, Suryakumar and Tilak Verma staged a fightback as the former changed the momentum by elegantly hitting the final ball of the fifth over straight back over the bowler’s head for a tremendous six. Following that,…

Officials said that barring some sporadic incidents, no major incident of violence was reported from any where in the state even as people continued to hold sit-in demonstrations on numerous issues.The combined security forces continued their search operations in both the valley and the hill arras to recover the looted arms.According to various reports, during the ethnic riots that broke out in Manipur on May 3, over 4,000 sophisticated arms and lakhs of ammunition have been looted from different police stations and police outposts by the mobs, attackers and militants.According to police records, less than 50 per cent of the…

Musk posted a chat with Zuckerberg on X (formerly Twitter), saying he will be in Palo Alto (California) on Monday and offered to fight on Zuckerberg’s “Octagon”.Zuckerberg apparently messaged Musk: “If you still want to do a real MMA fight, then you should train on your own and let me know when you’re ready to compete”.“I don’t want to keep hyping something that will never happen, so you should either decide you’re going to do this and do it soon, or we should move on,” Zuckerberg said.Musk replied: “1 have not been practicing much, apart from a brief bout with…

The club confirmed the news on Sunday in a brief statement on their official website, which states: “Following tests carried out on our player Eder Militao, he has been diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.”The 25-year-old suffered the injury in the 50th minute of his side’s 2-0 win away to Athletic, which came thanks to first-half goals from Rodrygo and Jude Bellingham. Militao slipped and fell badly while challenging Athletics’ Oihan Sancet for the ball, and immediately called for medical attention.After receiving treatment on the pitch, Militao was supported by medical staff as he limped…

Currently, the federal probe agency is handling nine cases, including the two cases of sexual assault that sparked nationwide outrage.Officials closely involved with the matter have indicated that the additional cases may be filed based on further investigation.In the Churachandpur district of Manipur, more cases related to assaults on women have been reported. These cases might be transferred to the CBI. The agency officials mentioned that cases related to the SC/ST Act will be overseen by an SP-level officer.All forensic samples collected by the investigating officers will be sent to the central forensic laboratories to expedite the probe process.According to…

Lauderhill, (USA), Aug 13 (IANS) India’s young opener Shubman Gill said he has learned a few things on the tour of Caribbean islands, having played on different venues and hoped that they would be able to use those when they come back to the region again next year and play against West Indies.After failing to get into double figures in the first three T20Is against the West Indies, Gill returned to form in the fourth match and scored a superb 77 and along with Yashasvi Jaiswal (84 not out) raised 165 runs for the opening wicket to help India to…