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The Congress’ Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday held a meeting with the party’s Parliamentary strategy group.A party source said that the Congress will not be boycotting the special session that will begin on September 18 and go on till September 22.The source said that during the Parliamentary strategy group meeting, the party MPs, including Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, decided to attend the special session with a positive agenda.The source also said that Sonia Gandhi will be writing a letter to the Prime Minister in the next few days for the agenda of the special session.She will inform the…

Celebrating Google’s rich history of events (the company will officially celebrate its 25th birthday later this month), Pichai said it’s time for some gratitude, and a moment to reflect.“Years ago, when I was studying in the US, my dad — who was back in India — got his first email address. I was really excited to have a faster (and cheaper) way to communicate with him, so I sent a message.“And then I waited…and waited. It was two full days before I got this reply Dear Mr. Pichai, email received. All is well,” he wrote late on Tuesday.Fast forward to…

Chief secretary D.S. Mishra said there should be a festive environment in the state during this period.Through cultural programmes, youth should be familiarised with the main events and prominent participants of the independence movement, he said.As per the plan, soil and rice will be collected from all homes from September 11 to October 13.From October 1, this soil will be put into Amrit Kalash and a Kalash Yatra will begin across the state from October 13.On October 27, all the Kalash will be collected at the Jhulelal Vatika in Lucknow where a massive programme will be organised.These will then be…

The progress report of the children will be assessed in October.Data obtained from the e-Kavach portal has shown that 2,48,728 severely malnourished (SAM) children, aged zero to five, were identified this year.The children were examined by doctors and are being provided iron, folic acid, multivitamins and calcium as per their specific requirement.They are also being vaccinated against various diseases.The Sambhav Abhiyan, which aims to eliminate malnutrition from the state, was launched in 2021.Under this, Anganwadi workers have been visiting homes of identified malnourished children every 15 days to check if their weight is increasing.So far this year, 16,645 children have…

UP prison and home guards Minister Dharamveer Prajapati said the clothes prepared for Banke Bihari ji included lehenga, pichawai (a cloth that hangs in the background), odhani and bichauna (a cloth on which Banke Bihari ji is placed), kamarband (waistband) and chotila (head gear).He said these items had been made by eight prisoners of Mathura district jail in a week.Prajapati said the prisoners used different types of designer cloth with exclusive coloured embroidery. He said the prisoners were also paid for preparing these clothes for Lord Krishna.The minister informed that the Mathura prisoners had been making these clothes for Shri…

The accused was identified as Nirdesh Verma, 25. He was allegedly stalking the woman, 23, for a long time and was forcing her into submission for love, but the woman had snubbed him.On August 30, Nirdesh, along with his aides, stopped the woman when she was returning home on a two-wheeler.“They intercepted me near a playground and started misbehaving with me. When I objected to his act, he abused me and pushed me down on the ground from the vehicle. He then rode the vehicle and sped off,” she alleged.The victim said Nirdesh threatened her with dire consequences if she…

According to local media, hundreds of people had to be rescued from their rooftops in Mucum as 85 per cent of the town was flooded, the BBC reported.More than 300 mm of rain hit the state in less than 24 hours, triggering floods and landslides, officials said.Calling the situation as the state’s worst-ever weather disaster, Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite told reporters on Tuesday that 15 more bodies had been found in Mucum earlier in the day, bringing the death toll to 21.”There are still people missing,” the BBC quoted Mucum Mayor Mateus Trojan as saying to the…

The Mahasabha members have demanded legal action against him.The complaint was filed at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on Tuesday evening.State president of Hindu Mahasabha, Rishi Trivedi along with many other members of the outfit, reached Hazratganj police station and handed over the complaint letter, requesting to register a case under various IPC sections.“Son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has publicly insulted Sanatana Dharma and Hindus by calling Sanatana Dharma as dengue, corona and infectious diseases. There is a lot of anger among the Hindus and saints due to such statements,” said Trivedi.–IANSamita/dpb

Rai alleged on Wednesday that the Union minister was now making efforts to protect his son. He said Kaushal Kishore was the second Union minister from the state after Ajay Mishra Teni who was protecting his son. He alleged that the police were completing mere formalities in the case.He said a case under section 30 of the Arms Act had only been registered against the Union minister’s son in Lucknow.“The BJP government is adopting dual standards. It is protecting legislators and ministers,” said Rai.He also referred to the case of a woman police head constable who was found badly injured…

It compares the performance of five major economies — India, the US, China, the EU and Japan on zero-carbon technologies.G20 is a moment where India with its strong presidency can set a chance to seize the demographic dividend and herald its emergence as an economic powerhouse of the future.India will be a $3.7 trillion economy in 2023, maintaining its edge over the UK as the fifth largest economy of the world.The report, ‘Competing in the new zero-carbon industrial era’, compares the performance of these five major economies on manufacturing, deployment and investment in key decarbonisation technologies like renewables, electric vehicles,…