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Rescue Efforts Continue at Uttarakhand, Over 170 Still Missing
The rescue teams have recovered one dead body, and two others trapped inside a tunnel at the Tapovan power project in Chamoli have been traced alive.
| 10 Feb 2021 11:15 AM GMT
DEHRADUN: Following a glacier burst in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on Sunday, in the hopes of finding more survivors multi-agency rescue operations are underway.
In a recent development, 32 bodies are feared trapped so far and more than 170 people still remain missing as rescue operations continue.
The rescue teams have recovered one dead body, and two others trapped inside a tunnel at the Tapovan power project in Chamoli have been traced alive. One of them who made it alive from the glacier disaster is Rashid from Saharanpur and the other is Suraj Singh from Chamoli.
Supreme Court Notice to Centre After Petition Asks to Define Minority
Plea challenged legality of section 2(C) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992, which allows Centre to declare any community minority.
| 10 Feb 2021 1:00 PM GMT
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, has issued a notice to the Centre after hearing a petition filed by lawyer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, seeking the court`s order to define the term minority and issue necessary guidelines for its definition.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde and comprising Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian issued the notice to the Centre.
Pakistan s forex kitty turns precarious
According to the data of the State bank of Pakistan, the FDI inflow into Pakistan is slowing down, the inflow of FDI fell by about 29.8 percent to $952.6 million.
| 10 Feb 2021 11:36 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow into Pakistan is slowing down. In the first half of the financial year 2020-21 July to December inflow of FDI fell by about 29.8 percent to $952.6 million compared to $1.36 billion in the corresponding period of the previous year, the State Bank of Pakistan data revealed.
Pakistan s lion share of FDI comes from China which is developing the much-hyped $60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). According to a report carried by Dawn newspaper, Chinese investment in the country is slowing down.