India

Kanpur: The weather does not last tolerable on Monday's afternoon. This led the people to curtail their movement during the daytime.

The real feel of the day temperature was felt at about 43 degrees Celsius while the maximum temperature was registered at 37 degrees Celsius today.

Undeniably it was warm weather with a blend of sunshine and clouds that pervaded on Monday's afternoon. There was not enough traffic on the road though mostly four-wheelers were running on the road at this desolate time.

New Delhi, Jun 28 (PTI) Ahead of assembly elections in Punjab next year, Delhi Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday promised free electricity in that state if his Aam Aadmi Party wins the polls.

A day ahead of his visit to Chandigarh, the AAP leader also claimed that women in Punjab are very unhappy with inflation.

Chennai, Jun 28 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government on Monday urged the Centre to revise the 75:25 allocation format of Covid vaccines to government and private institutions and demanded that 90 per cent of the doses be given to the state-run facilities.

In a letter to Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan, Chief Minister M K Stalin said the "25 per cent allocation to private hospitals is grossly higher when compared to the actual vaccinations done by them."

Jammu, Jun 28 (PTI) A fresh attempt to attack a military installation with the help of drones was foiled by alert Army sentries at the Ratnuchak-Kaluchak station who fired at the unmanned aerial vehicles that flew away, an incident that came hours after an IAF station saw the first terror attack using quadcopters.

The first drone was spotted at around 11.45 pm on Sunday followed by another at 2.40 am over the military station, which was witness to a terror attack in 2002 in which 31 people were killed, including 10 children.

NEW DELHI, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday encouraged people to overcome vaccine hesitancy and urged them not to believe in rumours relating to the COVID-19 vaccine.

"I urge you all - trust science. Trust our scientists. So many people have taken the vaccine. I have taken both doses. My mother is almost hundred years old, she has taken both vaccines too. Please do not believe any rumours relating to vaccines. Let us never believe in rumours relating to the vaccine," Modi said while addressing his monthly radio address.

NEW DELHI, Jun 27 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 30,233,183 today, as 50,040 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.

The death toll increased to 395,751, as 1,258 deaths were recorded since yesterday morning.

There are still 586,403 active cases in the country, with a decrease of 9,162 cases reported during the past 24 hours.

Ever since the pandemic hit the country, a total of 29,251,029 patients have been successfully treated and discharged from hospitals, with 57,944 of them discharged during the past 24 hours.

SRINAGAR, June 27 (Reuters) - India is investigating the suspected use of drones by separatist militants after two explosions rocked an Indian Air Force Station in the northern region of Jammu, two senior security officials said on Sunday.

The explosions in the early hours of Sunday injured two people and caused minor damage to a building, the officials said. They added that the blasts have caused concern in security circles as they could mark the first time that drones have been used in an attack in India.

Kanpur: To control air pollution in the city areas, the steps will be undertaken to minimise dust pollution on one-and-a-half dozen roads here.

A sum of Rs forty crores will be spent, a news report has suggested.

As the city is supposed to have received Rs seventy-five crore for bringing improvement in city's air quality, this has  been deduced.

The work on installing charging stations for the electrical vehicles will also be initiated. This will aim at reducing the air pollution created by petrol-run vehicles.

New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) After Air India, Britain's Cairn Energy PLC plans to target assets of state-owned firms and banks in countries from the US to Singapore as it looks to ramp up efforts to recover the amount due from the Indian government after winning an arbitration against levy of retrospective taxes.

A lawyer representing the company said Cairn will bring lawsuits in several countries to make state-owned firms liable to pay the USD 1.2 billion plus interest and penalties that are due from the Indian government.

Srinagar, Jun 26 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Saifuddin Soz on Saturday said the abrogation of Article 370, which accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir, was a big mistake by the Centre.

"While the Home Minister Shri Amit Shah is free to say what he said recently on our internal autonomy as enshrined by Article 370 of the Constitution of India, the fact remains that the abrogation of the said Article unilaterally is a very big mistake on the part of the Union of India," Soz said in a statement.