Sunday, 22 December 2024
Sunday, 22 December 2024
On day three after a flash flood wreaked havoc in Sikkim's Teesta basin, the number of bodies recovered from the river and mud embankments downstream rose to 22, including seven army men. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has approved the release of Rs 44.8 crore as an advance amount from the central share of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to Sikkim to provide relief to flash floods-affected people. Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang said that the Himalayan state has incurred damages worth thousands of crores of rupees in the flash flood but the exact details will be known after a committee is formed and it completes its analysis.
Canada has evacuated a majority of its diplomats working in India outside of New Delhi to either Kuala Lumpur or Singapore after it gave Ottawa an October 10 deadline to reduce its diplomatic staff to achieve parity in strength following a row over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, according to a media report. India rejected the allegations over Nijjar's killing by calling it 'absurd' and 'motivated' and expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa's expulsion of an Indian official over the case.
Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Mohammadi is one of Iran's leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women's rights and the abolition of the death penalty.
Reserve Bank of India decided to keep the policy rate unchanged for fourth time in a row as it maintains a tight vigil on inflation. Reserve Bank retained the inflation forecast for 2023-24 at 5.4 per cent, and vowed to take timely measures to prevent any spillovers of global food and fuel price shocks.
Delhi High Court issued notice to police on pleas challenging the arrest of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and human resources department head Amit Chakravarty in a case lodged under anti-terror law UAPA. Delhi Police, in an FIR filed under anti-terror law UAPA against online news portal NewsClick, has alleged that a large amount of funds came from China to 'disrupt the sovereignty of India' and cause disaffection against the country.
Trinamul Congress workers led by party leader Abhishek Banerjee continued their indefinite sit-in outside the Raj Bhavan in Calcutta until Governor C V Ananda Bose meets with the delegation, against alleged withholding of West Bengal's MGNREGA dues by the Centre. Banerjee, the TMC's national general secretary launched the sit-in on October 5 after thousands of party functionaries and its top leadership marched up to the British-era edifice to protest the alleged withholding.
Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court that the state-run hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar which recently saw a spurt in patient deaths faced a heavy inflow of extremely critical patients from private hospitals. However, the court said the state can’t escape its responsibility.
Indian men's hockey team won gold medal at Asian Games with 5-1 win over Japan, and qualified for Paris Olympics. India clinched their first-ever medal in women's sepaktakraw at the Asian Games with the regu team winning a bronze after losing to powerhouse Thailand in the semifinals. A 13-year wait ended in archery when the Indian men's and women's teams surpassed expectations to clinch a silver and bronze respectively, their first medals since 2010, at the Asian Games. An error-prone HS Prannoy signed off with an bronze, India's first medal in men's singles in 41 years, after going down in straight games to reigning All England champion, China's Li Shi Feng. Wrestler Aman Sehrawat won bronze medal in men's freestyle 57kg with a technical superiority win over China's Minghu Liu.
Seven people, including two minors, were killed and over 40 injured after a fire tore through a residential building in Mumbai’s Goregaon area. A few of the injured are in critical condition.
Vladimir Putin said that Russia had successfully tested a potent new strategic missile and declined to rule out the possibility it could carry out weapons tests involving nuclear explosions for the first time in more than three decades. He also told an annual gathering of analysts and journalists that Russia had almost completed work on its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile system, another key element of its new generation of nuclear weapons.
