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Government to launch Project Dolphin in 15 days: Prakash Javadekar
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 17 (ANI): The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will launch Project Dolphin in 15 days for conservation and protection of the mammalian species in Indian rivers and oceans, said Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday.
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Over three crore N95 masks, one crore PPE kits, ten crore HCQ distributed
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 13 (ANI): Over 3.04 crore N95 masks, more than 1.28 crore PPE kits and over 10.83 crore HCQ tablets have been distributed among the States, Union Territories and central institutions, free of cost by the central government since March 11, said the Union Ministry of Hea
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Move to bifurcate J-K in Union Territories was 'greeted in Ladakh as oppor
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): The strategy to put in place reasonable communication restrictions in Kashmir in the wake of abrogation of Article 370 "surprisingly" seems to have worked with the "volatile valley remaining relatively peaceful," suggests Olivier Guillard, a specialist on
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NHRC seeks report over plight of sex workers
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 9 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories over the plight of sex workers in India.
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8 states/UTs report 14 per cent of Covid-19 deaths, higher than national a
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 8 (ANI): At least eight states and union territories are accounting for nearly 9 per cent of India's active cases and about 14 per cent of COVID-19 deaths, even higher than national Case Fatality Rate (CFR) average, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family
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Centre releases Rs 890. 32 cr as 2nd installment of COVID-19 financial pac
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 6 (ANI): The Central Government on Thursday released Rs 890.32 crores as the second installment of the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package to 22 States and Union Territories (UTs).
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NHRC seeks ATR from States, UTs over plight of transgenders
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories of India over the plight of transgenders.
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Centre allocates 4.24 crore HCQ tablets to states and UTs, biggest since b
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 29 (ANI): The Union health ministry made the biggest allocation of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in India by distributing 4.24 crore medicines to the states and Union Territories.
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Centre releases Rs 1,65,302 cr as GST compensation to states, UTs for FY
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI): The Centre on Monday released Rs 1,65,302 crores as Goods and Services Tax (GST) compensation to states/Union Territories for the financial year 2019-20 against cess collection of Rs 95,444 crores.
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NGT suggests need for preventive action to avoid massive fires at chemical
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has suggested a need for preventive action including conducting mock-drills to avoid any incidents related to massive fires in the chemical plants and asked the Chief Secretaries of all States to hold meetings with concerned
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30 states, UTs have lower COVID-19 positivity rate than national average o
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said India's COVID-19 positivity rate is 8.07 per cent and there are at least 30 state and union territories (UTs) which have lower positivity rate than the national average.
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COVID-19: Union Health Secy, ICMR ask states, UTs to ramp up testing capac
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI): Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director-General, Dr Balram Bhargava, have written to all states and union territories (UTs) to ramp up COVID-19 testing capacity.
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