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Residents of Chamoli's Nizamula village recover boat buried in natural cal
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Chamoli (Uttarakhand) [India], Aug 23 (ANI): Residents of Nizamula village found a boat that was buried in flashfloods in 1970 after digging five feet in the Durmi Lake which used to be a tourist spot earlier.
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Telangana CM lauds MAUD, electricity dept personnel for good work despite
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Aug 18 (ANI): Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao congratulated the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) department for not putting people to any inconvenience despite heavy rain and also lauded electricity department personnel for ens
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Three more killed in Assam floods, toll rises to 96
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Dispur (Assam) [India], July 24 (ANI): Three more people lost their lives in flood-related incidents in Assam on Friday, taking the death toll to 96 in the state.
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China raises flood alert to second-highest level
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 12 (ANI): China's Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) on Sunday raised the emergency response for flood control to level II, the second-highest in the response system, as heavy downpours continued to lash vast stretches of the country, Xinhua reported.
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Oppn parties in Bengal demand Centre to declare Cyclone Amphan as national
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): Opposition parties, including Congress and CPI (M) in West Bengal on Saturday demanded the Centre to declare Cyclone Amphan as a national disaster.
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No plans to introduce calamity cess on GST: Finance Ministry sources
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): There are no plans to impose calamity cess on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to tide over the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and the lockdown imposed to prevent its spread, Finance Ministry sources said on Saturday.
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Opposition parties urge Central govt to immediately declare cyclone Amphan
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 22 (ANI): Opposition parties on Friday urged the Central government to immediately declare cyclone Amphan as a national calamity and substantially help the states in facing the impact of this disaster.
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Pak seeks lifting of sanctions against Iran in view of COVID-19 calamity
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 22 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday briefed Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Islamabad's diplomatic outreach to help lift sanctions against Tehran so that it could fight coronavirus pandemic, reports Geo news.
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Disruption of supply chain due to COVID-19 to be considered as a case of n
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 19 (ANI): The Ministry of Finance on Wednesday said the disruption of supply chain due to the spread of coronavirus in China or any other country would be considered as a case of natural calamity.
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Declare locust attack a national calamity, Rajasthan Min writes to PM
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Rajasthan revenue minister Harish Chaudhary has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to declare locust attack in the state as a national calamity.
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Rajasthan minister writes to PM Modi over locust attack
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Barmer (Rajasthan) [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Rajasthan revenue minister Harish Chaudhary has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to declare the cases of locust attack as a national calamity.
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Budget 2020: Excise duty hiked on cigarettes, other tobacco products
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The government has proposed to raise excise duty by way of National Calamity Contingent Duty on Cigarettes and other tobacco products. The announcement was made in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday.
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