Read more about Yamuna body gets Rs 3,725 cr loan from SBI to develop airport in Jewar on Business Standard. The entire principal plus interest amount has to be paid within 20 years.
Ghaziabad recorded 47 new COVID-19 cases while Gautam Buddh Nagar added another 68 on Monday, even as the two neighbouring districts in western Uttar Pradesh together registered seven more deaths, official data showed. Six of the new deaths were in Ghaziabad, while one in Gautam Buddh Nagar, as the toll in these districts reached 442 and 450, respectively, according to the state s Health Department data for a 24-hour period. According to the data, so far 62,356 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Gautam Buddh Nagar, which has 1,073 active cases. Ghaziabad s overall case tally is 55,064 with 1,688 active patients, it showed. On the brighter side, 181 patients in Gautam Buddh Nagar and 123 in Ghaziabad were discharged after treatment as the overall recoveries in the districts reached 60,833 and 52,934, respectively.
Read more about Over dozen students arrested in Pak after protest against in-person exams on Business Standard. Students were protesting against the government s decision to hold in-person exams of classes 10 and 12 from June 23, despite a surge in Covid-19 cases in the country
A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court to constitute a special investigation team (SIT) to conduct the investigation into over 100 corpses, found floating in the Ganga river in Bihar s Buxar, and Uttar Pradesh s Ghazipur and Unnao districts, amid the ongoing second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. The plea, filed by lawyers Pradeep Yadav and Vishal Thakre, urged the top court to issue direction the state government cconcerned to conduct post-mortem of the dead bodies. The act of the states is inhuman as they failed to provide facilities for decent burial/cremation of dead bodies and to keep a check on pollution of the holy river, Ganga, by such indecent act either of individuals or of authorities, the petition said.
Read more about National Health Mission fund transferred to personal account of officer on Business Standard. The Ballia district administration has ordered a probe into the transfer of Rs 50 lakh under the National Health Mission (NHM) to the personal account of an officer of the health department.