New Delhi: A low-intensity earthquake measuring 2.1 on the Richter scale struck the National Capital on Sunday afternoon.
According to National Center for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake hit the north west area of New Delhi at a depth of 7 KM at around 1202 hrs.
The epicenter of the quake was located at 28.67 degree Latitude and 77.14 degree Longitude.There was no report of damage to life or property.
(EW News Desk)
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Ebrahim Raisi for winning the Iran Presidential elections.
“Congratulations to His Excellency Ebrahim Raisi on his election as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I look forward to working with him to further strengthen the warm ties between India and Iran,” Mr Modi said in a tweet.
Mr Raisi won the election with nearly 62 percent of vote. The turnout was 48.8 percent – the lowest in the country’s history.
“Ebrahim Raisi got 17,926,345 votes to become the head of the executive branch and the president of Iran,” Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli announced on Saturday in a press conference.
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New Delhi: Chief Minister.Arvind Kejriwal, and Deputy CM. Manish Sisodia inaugurated the Centre for Meditation and Yoga Sciences on Sunday. The Centre has been institutionalised by the Delhi government, in collaboration with the Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University (DPSRU). The inauguration ceremony had CM Kejriwal as the Chief Guest, and Deputy CM Sisodia as the Guest of Honour. With this centre, the Chief Minister highlighted how Yoga will reach every house of Delhi and prove that Yoga can indeed be a ‘Jan Andolan’. Moreover, Deputy CM.Manish Sisodia further highlighted upon the course curriculum and also congratulated the team of the Centre for designing and planning the initiative within a short span of 2 months, despite the second wave of the covid-19 infection.
Kejriwal, while highlighting and thanking the presence of more than 450 Yoga instructors who joined the occasion virtually, said, “Tomorrow is the International Day of Yoga, and I believe that there could not have been a better way to celebrate this prestigious day. It has been a dream for both me and Manish Sisodia to make yoga reach each and every house of Delhi and to devise ways in which we can do so. We have been repeatedly hearing from many people that Yoga needs to be propagated as a Jan Andolan, but how can that be done, the ways in which it can reach the doors of every house, is hardly spoken about. Like Sisodia said, while India is teaching Yoga to people from all across the globe, how many of our own Indians are practicing Yoga? We had been deliberating upon ways in which Yoga can be in the reach of every Delhiite. And hence, we decided that we need to allot a specific budget to this, in which a group of more than 20 people call up and say that they wish to learn yoga, then the Delhi government shall provide an instructor for free to them. I felt that this was one of the most easy ways to drive our people to Yoga, and provide them the means to practice it. With this dream, we designated the budget, and wanted to start this with all our passion and conviction. But, the second wave of COVID-19 had hit just after the budget and we had to halt it. I didn’t even know that despite such difficulties this programme was initiated unless Manish Ji told me about it a couple of weeks ago. I would like to congratulate everyone, Ramesh Ji, Kamlesh Ji, Deepak Ji, and all the 450 instructors who continuously worked on this initiative despite the havoc that the pandemic wreaked in the past few months. I cannot insist about how happy I am.”
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal talked about the significance that Yoga carries in these times of the pandemic, and the launch of this programme. He added, “I have been told that October 2, we will be able to launch this initiative within the people of Delhi. From October 2, we will be able to initiate calls to the Dlehiites that if they wish to teach Yoga in their surroundings/societies, the Delhi government will provide them the instructors free-of-cost. There might be a possibility that due to the number of instructors being less, we may not be able to provide the instructors to everyone. But, it is going to be a great start. Within just 2 months, the Centre has designed nearly everything about the initiative. Today, we need Yoga more than ever. In times of the pandemic, people talk about how a good level of immunity is needed to combat the covid infection for people. This immunity will be good only when our lifestyle is upto the mark, and the regular practice of Yoga. Yoga helps in cultivating high immunity and keeping people mentally and physically healthy. Not only to prevent oneself from COVID-19, Yoga plays an important role in dealing with post covid complications for those who faced an adverse infection. The psychological and emotional needs aggravate quite a lot post covid. Hence, exercise and meditation are key to fighting covid infection. Covid affects our lungs the most, and in post covid, if we teach Pranayama to people, they will benefit from it. In the covid crisis, Yoga has a significant role to play in our lives. I would like to congratulate all the people of Delhi and those who are a part of building this centre.”
Deputy CM Mr. Sisodia was present as the Guest of Honour and threw light upon how Yoga will prove to be the sword against COVID-19 and help us be mentally and physically strong. He added, “The team of DPSRU and faculties of Centre for Mediation and Yoga Sciences for such impeccable work in difficult Covid-19 times. The Centre was announced in this year’s budget and the team did really great work. The Centre’s vision was laid down by CM Shri. Kejriwal Ji and the fact that India has been a Yog-Guru and a world leader when it comes to yoga and meditation. Whenever we talk of Yoga and Meditation we talk about India as well. Then, why should it be the case that the people in the capital itself are kept away from Meditation and Yoga. Then, the Delhi Government decided to take the responsibility for providing yoga and meditation instructors to all the people who want to practise yoga and meditation for betterment of their physical and mental peace. I discussed this issue with the Vice Chancellor and speedily, he placed the plan for implementation before us. Now we have started with training of around 450 Yoga and Meditation Instructors. We will have aggressive training for three months in the first phase. Then, such instructors will be able to go to different regions and teach people Yoga and Meditation and would be able to continue this one-year diploma as well. I would like to congratulate the first batch of young instructors who will be realising the CM’s vision to the grassroots. It is a unique course of one year, where yoga and meditation, the two schools have been included. Patanjali’s Yoga and Lord Buddha’s meditation have been inculcated in the course structure. After completing the said course, our instructors will take forward the movement of Yoga and Meditation not only in Delhi but in the whole country and the world as well. On this International Yoga Day, I congratulate all the people involved including the people at DPSRU and especially the Chief Minister for laying the vision for the Centre of Meditation and Yoga Sciences.”
Prof. Ramesh K. Goyal, the Vice Chancellor of DPSRU gave the opening remarks in the ceremony and said, “During these difficult times of COVID-19, the inauguration of this Centre of Meditation and Yoga Science has given us this newfound energy, hope and vigour. The DPSRU was established as an Instituted of Pharmacy in 1964 and then, was envisioned as a university in 2008. It was only in 2015, with the support of Delhi Government, that India’s one and only Pharmaceutical Sciences University and only the world’s third such University was developed at a fast speed. We had started with only 7 courses and in 2020, we increased the number of courses to 17; which has now further increased to 24 courses including DMLT, BMLT, B. Pharm. Ayurveda, M.Sc. (Artificial Intelligence), and many other different courses have been initiated. This not only includes pharmacy but also shows the diverse class of subjects that the University focuses on including Physiotherapy, Management, Regulations, Biotechnology, Ayurveda, Public Health and Hospital Management. Now, on this fruitful day, the Centre for Meditation and Yoga Sciences is being inaugurated which will take health services to the ground level of people of Delhi. With the support, hopes, and dreams of Kejriwal Ji and Sisodia ji, we had a dream to achieve the best results. In such times as well, a total of 51 students have qualified the National Competitive Examination that is Graduate Aptitude Test for Pharmacy with the 1st and 4th rank being achieved by our students. This speaks tonnes about the conviction of our students.”
Mr.Goyal further added, “Three faculties of our university have been published with Stanford University with top 2% scientists in the world. Two years ago, we also developed a nutraceutical medicine for critical care patients with Kidney ailments which came into the market. This shows the strength and passion of our faculties and their research. In the last year as well, for fighting Corona, we have developed ‘Coroquil’ medicine made from herbs from Delhi’s Aravalli Park on which studies are going on. This would become the first such formulation, if approved, to directly target the ACE2 receptor in Corona. This herbal medicine has also shown clear anti-viral effect in studies going on in University of Missouri, which no other medicine has. Trial results have shown positive results and we are hopeful that the medicine will help in post-covid effects too. School of Physiotherapy in only 5 years has also come up in India’s top 10 list. Sixteen start-ups were also incubated under the Innovation Centre and out of which 6 were successful. We are now taking such start-ups to the next step. With these achievements, we will also get NIRF and NAAC rankings as we have completed five years now.”
Concluding the speech, he said, “The Centre for Meditation and Yoga Sciences inaugurated today, with the support and vision of the Government will not only provide medicines to people but also, now we will be able to bring peace, prosperity and healthy lifestyle to every house.”
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New Delhi: India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the further advancement of southwest monsoon into remaining parts of Rajasthan, West Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Punjab is likely to be delayed as conditions are unfavourable and the forecast wind pattern do not suggest sustained rainfall over the region for a few more days.
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre of IMD, under the influence of a Low-pressure area over southeast Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood, a fairly widespread rainfall with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely over East Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during the next 24 hours and significant reduction in rainfall activity would take place thereafter.
Under the influence of a ‘Western Disturbance’ and a trough in mid tropospheric levels and monsoonal easterlies would cause widespread rainfall with isolated heavy rainfall very likely over Uttarakhand during next 24 hours and significant reduction in rainfall activity thereafter.
Moderate to severe thunderstorms accompanied by frequent cloud bursting to ground lightning is very likely over East Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during the next 24 hours, the IMD further said, adding that this may cause injuries leading to casualties to people and animals staying outdoors.
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New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said that it has arrested an absconding fake Indian currency racketeer in the Karnataka counterfeit currency case of 2018.
According to the national anti-terror probe agency, accused Sariful Islam, a resident of Malda in West Bengal was wanted in a case that was initially registered on March 12, 2018 at Chikkodi police station in Belagavi district of Karnataka and he is being produced before the Special Sessions Court Malda.
This case pertains to the arrest of two FICN racketeers and the seizure of fake Indian currency of face value of Rs 82,000 in March 2018.
The NIA had re-registered the case on April 14, 2018, and taken over the investigation.
The investigation has revealed that arrested accused Sariful Islam aka Sarifulla used to procure FICN from absconding accused Saddam Sekh and Hakim Sekh, the residents of Bangladesh for further circulation in Karnataka along with his co-accused persons. A reward of Rs 50,000/- was declared by NIA for information leading to the arrest of Sariful Islam.
Bengaluru NIA Special Court had earlier convicted five accused persons in the case for their role in procurement and circulation of FICN and sentenced them to imprisonment for six years.
Further investigation in the case to apprehend absconding Bangladeshi accused persons continues, the probe agency added.
(Agencies)
Patna: Patna High Court today directed Bihar Government to update digital portals within two months, saying people have every right to know the exact figure of deaths during Corona pandemic. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice S Kumar, while hearing petitions of Shivani Kaushik and others, directed Bihar Government to update digital portals within two months and dismissed all pleas for withholding information from the public relating to deaths even during corona pandemic.
The court observed that transparency was hallmark of good governance and it had become more important in present era when
government both at the centre and the state, were committed to making success of flagship programme of the Government of India termed as “Digital India” and National Data Sharing and Accessing Policy (NDSAP)- 2012 published in the gazette of India on March 17 2012.
The court also made it clear that people of Bihar had right to know on digital platform about the number of deaths that occurred in the state even during Corona pandemic. The court also observed that under provisions of Registration of Births and Deaths Act 1969 and Right to Information Act 2005, people had the right in unequivocal terms to get the information.
The court directed Bihar Government that digital portals should be made accessible to general public with regular and timely updates. It was needless to say that personal information would be protected under relevant provisions of law,
the court noted.
Ranchi: The ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has accused the opposition BJP of doing a drama by staging dharna in the field.
Addressing a press conference here party spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya said to hide the failures of the previous BJP government the leaders of the party are now doing this drama. He said that Hemant Soren government is pro farmers and knows how to to honour them and protect their rights.
He said that in the previous government only 5 lakh farmers were registered but now the coverage has been increased to 9 lakh farmers. Moreover 6 lakh farmers have been also linked with Aadhar.
He said that acts of the BJP are shameful as resorting to such antics the party wants to divert the attention of the people from its wrong doings.
Over the issue of filling a vacant cabinet post in the Soren government he said that including or excluding someone in cabinet is the right of the Chief Minister. Bhattacharya said that under the captaincy of Hemant Soren 11 team members are playing nicely. He said that in any outdoor game only 11 players are allowed while one is kept reserved.
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Itanagar: As many as 209 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Arunachal Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the state infection tally to 32,692, while the death toll rose to 159 as a 65-year-old succumbed to the virus.
Out of the new positive cases, Capital Complex reported the highest at 39, followed by Changlang and East Siang 22 each, and West Kameng 20, as per the bulletin issued by the state Directorate of Health Services.
Barring 88, all the cases are symptomatic.
According to the bulletin, a 65-year-old man from Changlang expired on Friday at his residence. He died due to Covid pneumonia.
On the other hand, 314 people were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the total recoveries to 29,934.
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Koderma: Big stones fell on the railway tracks early Saturday morning near Baskatwa between Koderma and Pahadpur Railway Stations on the Gomoh-Gaya rail section of the Dhanbad Division of the East Central Railway.
The Ranchi-bound Rajdhani Express was on the tracks and stones on the tracks forced the driver to apply emergency brakes preventing a major incident. However, the engine was damaged in the accident. All the passengers were safe.
Railway officials said that due to Ghat Section, the speed of the train was slow. Due to the incident, train number 02314 New Delhi-Sealdah Rajdhani Express and 03126 Gajipur City-Kolkata Express were stopped at different stations.
CPRO of Hazipur railway Rajesh Kumar said that the incident the train did not get derailed. Post the incident men were immediately rushed to the spot to clear the debris. The train traffic movement was restored on the tracks after few hours.
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Kolkata, Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace has introduced a “Back to College” program to facilitate the educational needs of millions of students as they begin their classes virtually this year.
Under the program construct, Flipkart is making available a wide selection of computing devices and bundled education content through tie-ups with leading edtech players including Edukemy and Simplilearn. As part of the initiative, over 400 courses across coding, AI and competitive entrance examinations will be available to students among a plethora of learning choices. This initiative aims at enhancing the learning potential of students as digital learning takes precedence.
As students prepare to move into a new academic year, the “online learning” scenario, triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to lead them to upgrade their education essentials with the best computing devices to make their learning process more intuitive and impactful. As part of the nearly 3-month initiative which started in June, Flipkart has curated a special page on the platform to help students select the right computing and electronic items such as laptops, tablets, printers, audio devices and IT peripherals along with online learning materials depending on one’s primary use case.
As part of the campaign, students looking for laptops and tablets will receive options post purchase to pick relevant courses from the edtech partners in an affordable manner.
Rakesh Krishnan, Senior Director, Electronics at Flipkart, said, “As students get ready for the new academic year and are now better acquainted with virtual learning, we are closely working with our brand partners to bring the best-in-class computing products, combined with courses and content to enhance their learning experience. With nearly 40-45% of the demand for electronics coming from the student community and the significant rise in the adoption of online learning since last year, the industry is now shaping its offerings to cater to this fast-growing customer segment and bring various interventions. Through our “Back to College” program, students will benefit from the wide variety of courses offered by partners along with a large selection of computing devices available on Flipkart that will cater to their diverse needs and support them in choosing the best learning materials available.”
In the past year, the demand for computing devices including laptops and tablets has grown multifold, as students switched to learning from home on the back of the pandemic. Interestingly, while school students prefer to purchase budget laptops, college students are looking for premium options to undertake complex tasks which require high processing power.
At the same time, online education offerings for classes 1 to 12 are projected to increase 6.3X by 2022 from the base of 2019,” according to an industry report*. It added that the post K-12 market is expected to grow 3.7X to touch $1.8 billion.
Flipkart’s customer insights also corroborated a growing demand for online learning materials among the customers of computing devices. Earlier in April, Flipkart partnered with Codingal, Avishkaar, Prograd and Vendantu to offer online courses for school students and witnessed good traction among customers.
To better cater to the students’ needs, Flipkart also introduced its Student Loyalty Program with wide-ranging benefits. Students will have to sign up on the electronics page on the Flipkart app using their student identification card and after verification, they will be eligible for 3 months of Flipkart Plus membership along with a host of other benefits on the purchase of electronics, gadgets and backpacks.
(Agencies)
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