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Andhra Pradesh will get an additional amount of Rs 344 crore while Madhya Pradesh has become entitled to receive Rs 660 crore for capital projects.

Opposition parties attacked the BJP government in the state and termed the incident "horrific" and "shameful", with the Congress comparing it to the Nirbhaya incident of 2012.

The mishap took place at the Coal Chemical Department of the RSP in the morning, when a total of 10 workers were on duty.

The States have also been advised to closely coordinate with the forest department officials to check whether birds are falling dead unusually. In case of any such instances, preventive measures to check spread of the virus

The Drugs controller General of India (DCGI), on Sunday, announced approval of two vaccines Oxford-AstraZeneca's Covishield manufactured by Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin against coronavirus infection

Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai saw a spike in QoQ transacted volumes during Q4 2020 at 459 per cent, 640 per cent, 919 per cent and 227 per cent respectively. Vacancy levels have been the lowest in markets

 "As many as 2,403 birds have died so far. We expect that this number will grow. We are on high alert and monitoring the situation very carefully," Pathania said.

India continued its streak of low daily new cases as the number of fresh infections remained below 20,000 for the fifth consecutive day.

The significant investment will enable boAt, that emerged as the leading brand in India's true wireless stereo (TWS) market with 18 per cent market share in Q3 2020, to further fortify its leading market position while widening its R&D

In a Facebook post titled 'Long Kept Secret', ISRO scientist Tapan Misra claimed that in July 2017, Home Affairs security personnel met him and alerted him of arsenic poisoning and helped doctors to focus on exact remedy

Research organisations, including CCMB, to launch countrywide genome sequencing of Covid

Says final decision with government, all norms followed in vaccine approval

The operation was launched a day after results of the samples tested at the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal confirmed the outbreak of the bird flu in the two districts.

Against 29,091 people who recovered in a 24-hour window, India reported only 16,375 new cases, maintaining a steady level of testing.

The Drugs Controller General of India on Sunday gave the permission to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin for use in an emergency situation.

Health Minister KK Shailaja called upon the people to opt for self-imposed lockdown. "More people are coming out after the lockdown restrictions were relaxed.

Navprabhat, the former minister in the erstwhile Congress government in Uttarakhand has been organizing agitations in Vikasnagar.

The project envisages a new triangular Parliament building, with a seating capacity of up to 1,200 MPs. The project is estimated to be constructed by August 2022, when the country will celebrate its 75th Independence Day.

The incident occurred at a village under Jalalabad police station area on Monday evening when the girl was playing outside her house

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also inaugurated the Kochi-Mangaluru natural gas pipeline, via video conferencing today.

In a note directed to Commissioners and Collectors, he said that the dry run programme will be conducted at six sites, three urban and three rural respectively.

The incident took place on Saturday when the 38-year- old accused barged into the victim's hut at a village in Talasari taluka while she was sleeping with her mother.

The state government has issued an alert over the H5N8 avian influenza.

The approval to Covaxin has been questioned by industry experts and some opposition Congress leaders who have expressed concern over the absence of phase 3 trial data