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G20 Summit, scheduled to be held in the national summit. The move comes after MCD had announced plans, only to face opposition from Delhi residents and animal rights activists. Earlier, the Delhi Municipal Corporation has announced that all street dogs will be picked up from the vicinity of the boutique hotels and popular tourist spots in Delhi, sterilized and kept at the NGOs until the summit was over.

Bill has already been passed by Lok Sabha where the BJP is in majority. Earlier on August 3, the Bill was passed in Lok Sabha by a voice vote after a walkout by members of I.N.D.I.A alliance. The Delhi Services Bill empowers the Central government to make rules in connection with the affairs of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

DK Shivakumar will hold their first meeting with a group of Congress MLAs in Bengaluru on Monday to hear out their grievances in a bid to stem any displeasure among the party’s lawmakers about the 10-week old government. The meeting comes in response to a promise the CM held to his party MLAs, last month, after about a dozen MLAs wrote to him demanding a Congress legislature party (CLP) meeting. He offered to meet MLAs district-wise every month.

CISF, that guards 66 civil airports of the country, has been sanctioned an enhanced manpower of more than 6,500 personnel over the past 18 months to cater to the ever-increasing load of passengers and expansion of the existing facilities, official sources said. With the allocation of fresh personnel, the overall strength of this unit deployed to secure civil airports against terrorist, hijack and sabotage threats is now about 37,000 men and women including commando-trained troops, they said.

According to doctors, this year's monsoon and subsequent floods in Delhi have caused sanitation issues, leading to a rise in seasonal infections. «This year is different. The monsoon has been quite aggressive.

Delhi Police has urged people from the Northeastern region, Gorkhas from Darjeeling and those belonging to Ladakh residing in the national capital for providing information about themselves in order to ensure better policing and their safety and security. In a communication, Joint Commissioner of Police, Special Police Unit for North East Region, New Delhi, PN Khrimey, said though many people belonging to the Northeast, Ladakh, Gorkhas of Darjeeling are residing in various locations of the national capital, no specific data are being maintained by any agency or organisation, according to an official release issued by the Assam government.

About 1,400 km away, Vikram, a driver in Delhi, had spent his lockdown days in anxiety. Confined to a two-room flat that houses his family of five, he did not have the luxury to develop new hobbies. He had to make sure he had a job when the lockdown was lifted.

Joyeeta Gupta, professor of environment and development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, won the Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch academia, sometimes referred to as the Dutch Nobel prize. Gupta’s work lies at the intersection of climate crisis, governance and justice, and the jury recognised it as “extremely broad and interdisciplinary”: She was also the lead author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with former US vice-president Al Gore.

Earthquake of magnitude 5.8 on the Richter scale originated in Afghanistan on Saturday. Strong tremors were felt in Delhi as well as nearby areas.

ICICI Bank to the Videocon group turned into non-performing assets (NPAs) of more than Rs 1,000 crore, the CBI has claimed in the charge sheet filed against the bank's former CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon founder Venugopal Dhoot. The over 10,000 pages-long charge sheet was filed recently before a special court for the Central Bureau of Investigation cases here. The Kochhars and Dhoot are now out on bail. After Chanda Kochhar became MD & CEO of ICICI Bank, from May 1, 2009, six 'Rupee Term Loans' (RTLs) were sanctioned to Videocon Group. Between June 2009 to October 2011, RTLs of a total of Rs 1,875 crore were sanctioned to the group by the bank, the charge sheet said. Chanda Kochhar was chairperson of the two-member Committee of Directors which sanctioned RTL of Rs 300 crore in August 2009 to Videocon International Electronics Limited (VIEL). Further, she was a member of the committee of senior managers (recommending committee) as well as credit committee (sanctioning committee) for sanctioning RTL of Rs 750 crore to Videocon Industries Limited (VIL) in October 2011, the CBI charge sheet said. She was a member of the committees which sanctioned various loan limits to Videocon Group even after 2012, it added.

click here The Supreme Court of India on Monday heard pleas regarding the Manipur Viral video case. The apex court directed expedited action on the ethnic violence crimes that took place in the violence stricken Manipur. The top court called for evolving a broad mechanism to deal with violence against women and asked how many FIRs have been registered in such incidents in the state since May.

Delhi Services Bill for its consideration and passage in Rajya Sabha on Monday, sources said. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 to replace the ordinance on transfers and postings of senior officers in the Delhi government was passed by Lok Sabha on Thursday amid a walkout by the opposition parties. «The Delhi services bill will come up in Rajya Sabha on Monday. Voting for the passage of the bill will be held the same day in the evening after the conclusion of a discussion on the bill,» a source said. Senior Congress leader and Supreme Court lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi is likely to initiate the debate from the opposition side, the sources said. Singhvi had represented the Delhi government in the Supreme Court in the matter related to control of administrative services.

Roseate Hotels & Resorts, owned by Bird Group, plans to add two hotels annually through management agreements while pursuing the development of luxury boutique properties in India and abroad, Kush Kapoor, CEO of the company, told ET. The company intends to include coworking centers at hotels in metro cities, while its properties in holiday destinations will be developed as resorts. «We are receiving organic queries from owners willing to offer their properties, and simultaneously, some owners with beautiful locations are interested in entrusting their properties to us. We are now exploring management options alongside our existing hotels,» Kapoor said. The company has recently acquired 2.6 acres of land near the upcoming Noida airport for the development of a 250-room project that will include a spacious convention center. «If everything goes well, and we get all our approvals in time, we should be able to start construction soon on the Noida hotel. We are also looking at expanding the Rishikesh resort as well,» Kapoor said.

Blue Star, an Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 ordered by Indira Gandhi to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers from the Golden Temple of Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, Punjab. On Saturday protesting members demanded the cancellation of bail granted to Jagdish Tytler and prosecution of him under severe sections of the Indian Penal Code Jagdish Tytler was granted anticipatory bail on Friday on one lac bail bond and like amount surety.

India Shelter Finance Corporation and Delhi-based BLS E-Services filed draft papers with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for their initial public offers (IPOs). India Shelter Finance looks to raise Rs 1,800 crore via its IPO. The public offer comprises a fresh equity issue worth Rs 1,000 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of Rs 800 crore.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra has been appointed as Delhi BJP vice president on Saturday. «On the orders of BJP Delhi president Virendra Sachdeva, Kapil Mishra has been appointed as the Vice president of the party's Delhi unit. This appointment will come into force with immediate effect,» the party said in a statement.

Switzerland rejected 13.2 per cent of all visa applications filed by Indian nationals in 2022, Schengen Statics showed. The same data also showed that 106,025 applications filed by Indians received a positive response. Indians are listed as the 30th nationality in the list of those with rejection rates. Nationalities whose visa applications were rejected the most include Pakistani, Ghanaian, and Congolese nationals. The rejection rates of Pakistani nationals were the highest – 55.1 per cent, showing that more than half of applications for visas got rejected. Ghanaians and Congolese had a rejection rate of 46.5 and 41.5 per cent respectively, while the other nationalities in top 5 included Algerians and Argentinians with 39.9 and 35 per cent rejection rates, respectively. Recently, in an article SchengenVisaInfo.com said that the Swiss embassy in New Delhi has declared its temporary suspension of Schengen visa applications for Indian tour groups until October. Clarifying the same, Swiss embassy in Delhi issued a statement saying that it has not suspended Schengen visa appointments for Indian tour groups and has almost 800 daily appointments through the end of September 2023. The mission asserted that people-to-people contact is at the core of Swiss-Indian relationship.

₹300 per kilogram in the coming days and the prices of other vegetables are also likely to shoot up. Tomato prices have been under pressure for more than a month now. Besides, rain fury has worsened the supply, causing further price increases.

Indigo Airlines on Saturday. A similar incident took place on Thursday when Indigo flight had to make an emergency landing in Patna.

Also read: UN HQ event creates Guinness World Record for people of most nationalities in yoga session A montage video shared by Guinness World Records on Instagram showcased Kimberly Winter's burping prowess on several occasions, celebrating her achievement as "Loudest burp (female) 107.3 dB (C-weighted) by Kimberly Winter."A post shared by Guinness World Records (@guinnessworldrecords) According to the official GWR site, Kimberly Winter's thunderous burp measured an impressive 107.3 decibels (dB), surpassing the previous record of 107 decibels set by Italy's Elsa Cagoni in 2009. To put it into perspective, her burp was even louder than the sound of a blender (70-80 dB), an electric handheld drill (90-95 dB), and some motorcycles at full throttle (100-110 dB).

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecasted heavy to extremely heavy rainfall across multiple regions in the country until August 7. According to the IMD, intense precipitation is anticipated in East Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya, as well as Nagaland and Manipur.