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Funds allocated for Waziristan education projects insufficient: KP opposit
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], July 20 (ANI): Following the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government's allocation of Rs 100 million for establishing a university in North Waziristan tribal district against its actual cost of Rs 4 billion, member of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, Nighat Yasmin Orakzai com
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Odisha to support MGNREGS with additional 200 work days
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 20 (ANI): The Odisha Government has decided to provide additional 200 days of work over and above the guaranteed 100 days of work mandated under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREG) Act, 2005 in the 20 migration-prone Blocks of th
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Bring Back Bees project sets up apiary units selling NFT digital tokens
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 18 (ANI/NewsVoir): Bring Back Bees (BBB), a web3-based environmental project dedicated to protecting bees, has completed installing 33 apiary units in Krishnagiri and Tiruvallur districts in Tamil Nadu, from the fund it had generated through the sale of 33
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Maharashtra floods: IMD issues orange alert for Gadchiroli, Gondia distric
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) [India], July 18 (ANI): Orange alert has been issued for the districts Gadchiroli and Gondia by the Regional Meteorological Centre in Mumbai for Monday by predicting a thunderstorm and lightning with heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places.
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District Export Plans unveiled in J-K aiming to convert all districts into
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 16 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has expressed confidence in the export potential of the Union Territory and said that efforts will be made to increase the exports by three times in the next five years.
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CM Bommai releases Rs 500 crore for infrastructure restoration works
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 15 (ANI): Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday ordered the release of Rs 500 crore to take up infrastructure restoration works in the flood-affected districts of the state. The Chief Minister held a video conference with Deputy Commissioners of flood-
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Pakistan: Ethnic tensions flare up after killing of Sindhi Youth Bilal Kak
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 15 (ANI): Shops and hotels, owned by Pashtuns, were closed by the Sindhis as the ethnic tensions flared up in several districts in Sindh province following the killing of 35-year-old Bilal Kaka at a hotel in Hyderabad a couple of days ago, media reports said.
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NHPC to develop green hydrogen-based projects in Ladakh
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kargil (Ladakh) [India], July 15 (ANI): With an aim to reduce the carbon footprint in the power sector, National Hydro Electric Power Corporation (NHPC) has signed two MoUs for the development of Pilot Green Hydrogen Technologies in Leh and Kargil districts in the Union Territory of Ladakh.
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Indian Navy choppers conduct rescue and relief ops in marooned villages in
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 14 (ANI): The Indian Navy launched two medium-lift UH3H helicopters from INS Dega at Visakhapatnam on Thursday in response to a request from the Eluru district administration in Andhra Pradesh for rescue and relief operations due to massive flooding in the Godavari ri
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39 people die in flash floods in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 14 (ANI): As many as 39 people have died in incidents of flash flooding in the past week with new districts in the east, south, south-east, and central regions of Afghanistan impacted by heavy rains.
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CM Bommai announces Rs 500 crore for infrastructure restoration in flood-h
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Udupi (Karnataka) [India], July 14 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced a sum of Rs 500 crore on Wednesday to take up repair and restoration of roads, bridges, power lines and other infrastructure work in the flood-hit areas based on the report received from all the
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Telangana schools closed due to heavy rains till July 18
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 13 (ANI): The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued extreme heavy rainfall warning for 11 districts of Telangana as the South West monsoon lashes the coastal state.
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