India

New Delhi, Sep 25 (PTI) The Indian rupee sliding to a historic low of 81.09 to a dollar will make import of crude oil and other commodities expensive further fueling inflation which for the past several months has remained above the Reserve Bank's upper tolerance level of 6 per cent.

The pressure on the domestic currency, which is mainly due to repeated hikes in interest rate by the US Fed, is likely to continue with rise in trade deficit and gradual withdrawal of funds by institutional investors.

Digha (WB), Sep 25 (PTI) A development agency of the West Bengal government is setting up a tourist circuit connecting Digha, a coastal town in Purba Medinipur district, with another popular seaside resort Mandarmani along the 29.5 km-long Marine Drive route, an official said.

The Digha Shankarpur Development Authority is executing the project and the work for it is almost complete, he said.

Kanpur:  There was surfaced negligence in the purchase of sports equipment in the City's 21 government schools regulated under the National Secondary Education Campaign.

The DDR, Kanpur Division Prem Prakash Maurya said that an inspection was conducted of the schools coming under the RAMSA. Various points have come out. There are points which fall under the power of audit. The DIOS can furnish details about it.

The purchase was completed without a tender. The process was not attended to.

Kanpur: Hazrat Makhdoom Shah's 764th Urs Mubarak began at the Jajmau area here on Sunday. There was a crowd from the Dargah site to the Dargah road, which caused a jam on the Kanpur-Lucknow highway.

However, the diversion was a step toward relief. The police kept the crowd aside and allowed the vehicles to pass so that the passers-by did not have to face much trouble.

Even Jajmau's 150 feet road was kept vacant from vehicles to allow people a hassle-free way. The traffic police even took photos of vehicles for the challan.

24 Sep 2022; MEMO: The National Investigation Agency (Indian Intelligence) and the Enforcement Directorate (specialising in financial crimes) on Thursday arrested at least 100 Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders and prominent Islamic figures. The arrests were part of a campaign of raids by Indian intelligence and other state agencies on the offices and

Kanpur: Govt ITI, Pandu Nagar tells its own story. The sheet metal workers are taught the art of making cupboards, coolers or milk boxes etc. by bending the sheet into different shapes with a hammer.

The special thing is that both the hammer and the sheet are paper in training.

Students coming from far away are learning to make diagrams only in the name of practical.

Kochi, Sep 23 (PTI) The Kerala High Court on Friday took suo motu case against Popular Front of India (PFI) and its state general secretary over declaring hartal in the southern state today.

Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar said despite its 2019 order, a call for a flash hartal was made yesterday by the PFI.

Lucknow, Sep 23 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly on Friday passed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Bill 2022 which bars granting of anticipatory bail to rape accused.

Lucknow, Sep 23 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh government has banned cattle trade with four neighbouring states and also imposed a "lockdown" on the intrastate movement of animals from 28 districts to prevent the spread of lumpy skin disease, Animal Husbandry Minister Dharampal Singh said Friday.

He said the lumpy skin disease has spread to animals in 14 states of the country and it is "fatal to animals like coronavirus" is to human.

Purnea, Sep 23 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar backstabbed the BJP to join hands with RJD and Congress, in order to fulfil his prime ministerial ambitions.

Asserting that the BJP will form a government with full majority in the state, Shah alleged that Kumar does not have any ideology, so he gave up socialism in favour of caste-based politics.