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New Delhi, Jun 16 (PTI) IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday slammed Twitter for deliberate defiance and failure to comply with the country's new IT rules, which has led to the US giant losing its intermediary status in India and becoming liable for users posting any unlawful content.

Twitter has allegedly not fully complied with the new rules, called Intermediary Guidelines that call for setting up grievance redressal mechanism and appointing officers to coordinate with law enforcement.

Kanpur: Delay in the release of the budget to close the big nullahs permanently is what the Jal Nigam bemoans. Though these are reportedly shut on paper temporarily, the polluted water directly falls into the Ganga river water.

A proposal to a sum of Rs 48 Crore was sent to the state government. Several reminders were later despatched but the amount has not been released so far.

According to a report, contaminated water up to lakhs of litres goes into the stream of the river daily before the Sewage treatment plant.

Aligarh (UP), Jun 16 (PTI) A Covid widow who lost her job due to the pandemic and her five children have been admitted to a hospital here, apparently after going without food for days.

Doctors at the Malkhan Singh District Hospital said the six family members were barely able to talk or stand up when they were admitted on Tuesday by some Good Samaritans.

Jabalpur, Jun 16 (PTI) The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued an interim direction to the state government to immediately survey all districts to find out the places where the procured food grains are lying in the open and take steps to protect them from rains.

New Delhi, Jun 16 (PTI) As many as 730 doctors have succumbed to coronavirus infection during the second wave, according to data available by the Indian Medical Association (IMA).

Bihar saw the maximum number of 115 deaths, followed by Delhi at 109, Uttar Pradesh 79, West Bengal 62, Rajasthan 43, Jharkhand 39, and Andhra Pradesh 38, the data showed.

According to the IMA, 748 doctors died in the first wave of the pandemic.

Ghazipur (UP), Jun 16 (PTI) A newborn girl, wrapped in a piece of cloth and a chit declaring her as the "daughter of the Ganga", was found in a wooden box floating in the river at Dadrihhat here.

Contained a picture of goddess Durga, a horoscope and incense sticks, the box carrying the infant was found by a local boatman, Gullu Chaudhary, who carried the girl home.

Police said Gullu was at the Dadrighat on Tuesday evening when he heard cries of the baby and found her alive in the box.

Agra, Jun 16 (PTI) A 40-year-old woman from Brazil was one of the early tourists to step inside the premises of Taj Mahal as it opened on Wednesday after having been closed for around two months amid the Covid-induced lockdown.

As many as 1,919 tourists, including two foreign nationals, visited the monument on the first day, officials said, adding 221 people visited Agra Fort, 75 Fatehpur Sikri and 151 Akbar's Tomb in Sikandra.

Kolkata, June 17 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the BJP-led union government over its "efforts to control" Twitter and claimed that the Centre, having failed to influence the microblogging platform, is now trying to bulldoze it.

Drawing a parallel, Banerjee said her government, too, was being meted out the same treatment by the Centre.

New Delhi, Jun 17 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said rebuilding India will begin once Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledges his mistakes and seeks help from experts as living in denial will not solve anything.

He said this while citing a report quoting World Bank's data on poverty where India has a share of 57.3 per cent in rise in global poverty during the Covid pandemic.

Kanpur: Advanced Traffic control system remains ineffective in maintaining the even flow of motorised vehicles on the road.

Despite automatic signals and installation of other gadgets required to regulate the heavy traffic from morning to evening, these have stimulated headache to the public as well as the traffic officials.

Undoubtedly the road users do not avail the facility of fast movement on the road. Just take an example of Taatmill crossing here.

The automatic electronic traffic signal does not provide relief from the usual jam on the crossing.