Chandigarh (Punjab) [India] Aug 14 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered a ban on the sale and use of nine agro-chemicals in order "to protect the quality of paddy crop quality and boost the export of Basmati rice".
Sambalpur (Odisha) [India], Aug 13 (ANI): A male elephant, aged between 2.5 to 3 years, was found dead near Elbow Keshapali village under Dhama Forest Range in Sambalpur, Odisha on Wednesday.
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Director-General of Police (DGP) Bhupinder Singh has ordered an inquiry against those accused of spreading "baseless rumours" regarding phone-tapping of close to half a dozen MLAs lodged at Jaisalmer's Suryagarh palace.
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered night curfew from 9 pm to 5 am in the worst affected cities of Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Patiala from Saturday to contain COVID-19 spread.
Moscow/Algiers/Beirut, August 6 (Sputnik/ANI): Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has ordered emergency assistance to be sent to Beirut in solidarity with Lebanon to help the latter cope with the consequences of Tuesday's powerful explosion in the capital city's port, state news agency
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], Aug 6 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has ordered a probe in the fire incident at Shrey Hospital in Ahmedabad, said the Gujarat Chief Minister's Office (CMO) on Thursday.
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): Out of the total 60,000 ventilators the Union government has ordered, the share of Make in India ventilators is 96 per cent by volume and 90 per cent by value, according to the Union health ministry on Tuesday.
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 1 (ANI): The government has ordered two probes into the crane collapse at Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam in which at least 11 people were killed on Saturday.
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 31 (ANI): The Afghan Army has been ordered to prepare for retaliatory fire against the Pakistani military after cross border shelling killing nine Afghan civilians and left 50 others wounded, media reported.
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], July 31 (ANI): Government of Jharkhand has ordered an extension of lockdown related restrictions currently in place in the state outside containment zones, up to August 31, due to COVID-19.
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 30 (ANI): The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday ordered all the government and private schools to remain closed till August 31 in the state amid the rising cases of COVID-19.
New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay of contempt proceedings after learning that it has backed out of a court-ordered project to install smog tower to control air pollution in the national capital.