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Aided by increased vaccination and increased agriculture, the country’s economy has grown healthy growth rate of 8.4 percent In July-September, the second quarter of the financial year 2021-22. GDP was 0.33 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels in Q2, 2019-20, indicating that the economy has regained lost ground COVID-19, Barring construction, all industry segments posted higher production levels as compared to Q2, 2019-20.
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The United Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is spearheading the farmers’ protest, will meet today to decide the names of five representatives to be included in the committee proposed by the Prime Minister to discuss issues like promotion of zero budget farming and raising the MSP. will be done. effective and transparent”. Meanwhile, two farmer leaders said that discussions should begin “Getting Out of Borders”,
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With opposition-ruled governments questioning the increase in the BSF’s jurisdiction to 50 km inside the international border, Paramilitary Director General Pankaj Kumar Singh said the likely reason for the Centre’s decision was that “the demographic balance has been disturbed. Border states like West Bengal and Assam over time. He said that a survey conducted by BSF has pointed out that “A certain demographic change”.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that his government Will not give free treatment to Kovid-19 patients who have not been vaccinated. He said that government employees and teachers who have not been vaccinated will have to undergo RT-PCR test every week, except for the doctor’s certificate, for which they will have to bear the expenses themselves.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M. with Venkaiah Naidu Refusing to revoke the suspension of its 12 MPs, the Congress-led opposition parties said they would continue their protest, and their members would not apologize or express any regret. However, the motion to boycott the Parliament session was postponed as there was no unanimity on it. Suspended MPs will start Protest in front of Gandhi statue from today in parliament
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During the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, many members asked the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Regarding the upcoming bill on cryptocurrencies and the proliferation of advertisements for digital money and related trading. Sitharaman assured the House that Government studying the existing regulatory framework for advertisements To see how to handle them.
In order to make educational material “free of bias” for students, a parliamentary committee on education called for a review of the manner in which Indian freedom fighters are depicted in school history textbooks and recommended that “ancient knowledge and wisdom” from the Vedas should be included in the school curriculum. The Indian History Congress strongly opposed the recommendations, saying that review of such material “should give adequate attention to recognized scholarly and academic material from across the country.”
The Union Health Ministry has asked states to tighten their genome sequencing measures to ensure early detection of new variants. Send “100 Percent Samples” from Covid Hotspots, started with two recent clusters in Dharwad in Karnataka and Thane in Maharashtra. In a high-level review meeting, states were advised to send “all positive samples” to the designated INSACOG laboratories “expedited” for genome sequencing.
As per RBI data, a rural employee in Kerala earned an average of Rs 677.6 per day for 2020-21 – far more than their counterparts In more developed states like Gujarat and Maharashtra and more than twice the national average. Maharashtra, considered the most industrialized state and a major producer of agricultural products, has a national average of Rs 315.3, with a rural worker earning just Rs 262.3, compared to Rs 239.3 in Gujarat this year.
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It was a coincidence that India’s unique talent, Vivek Sagar PrasadIntroduced to hockey. It all started in a field near his house in Itarsi. Prasad reached the ground one evening to play cricket, but a local hockey team was running short of a player. The rest, as they say, is history. Since then, he has led India to a Youth Olympic silver medal, won a bronze medal at the Olympics, and has been named as a rising star of the International Hockey Federation twice. On Wednesday, he will have to help India’s Under-21 team progress from a much tougher Belgian side in the quarter-finals of the Junior World Cup.
Delhi Confidential: Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav, who was in charge of several key states as party general secretary, has co-authored a book – ‘The Rise of the BJP: The Making of the World’s Largest Political Party – with economist Ila Patnaik. The book tracks the birth of the BJP, its journey as the successor of the Jana Sangh, and the way it pursued the idea of cultural nationalism.
in today’s episode ‘3 things’In this article, we discuss why 12 Rajya Sabha MPs have been suspended, how the government is refusing to answer a question about farmers’ protests, and the new CEO of Twitter.
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