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At least 18 people suffered injuries as a major fire broke out at a paint factory in West Bengal's Howrah district on Wednesday afternoon, a fire department official said.
Two of those injured are in "critical" condition, having sustained 80 per cent burns, he said, adding that the blaze was first spotted at the paint manufacturing unit in Shibpur around 1.40 pm.
"Workers were inside the factory when the fire started. While some managed to flee, at least 18 sustained injuries. An electrical short circuit at the mixing plant or the air conditioning system might have led to the fire. Since it is a paint unit, there were several inflammable items," he said.
Eight fire tenders have been pressed into service, and the situation, at the moment, is under control, the official said. (PTI)
Congress has called a meeting of All India Congress Committee on Thursday. AICC General Secretaries and PCC Presidents have been asked to attend the meeting. The meeting is taking place at a time when Sonia and Rahul Gandhi is being pressured to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case related to the National Herald-AJL deal.
Mumbai | Khar Police files chargesheet against MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana in the second FIR under section 353. Borivali Court has granted the couple exemption from personal appearance today. The next date of hearing is 16th June.
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday sought default bail from a special court here in a corruption case against him being probed by the CBI, claiming the probe agency has filed an "incomplete" charge sheet in the case.
The CBI had last week filed a 59-page charge sheet in the case against NCP leader Deshmukh and his two former aides - Sanjeev Palande and Kundan Shinde - in the corruption case.
Deshmukh is currently in judicial custody in a money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). He is lodged in the Arthtur Road jail in Mumbai.
In his plea seeking default bail, moved through advocates Inderpal Singh and Aniket Nikam, Deshmukh claimed the charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on June 2 is "incomplete".
All Indians living in gulf countries are safe and they do not have to worry. There is no tension anywhere... I don't think this was a statement made by any govt functionary. Therefore it has no impact on the govt: Union Min Piyush Goyal on the statements of Gulf countries
BJP has announced the names of candidates for legislative council elections which are to be held in 9 seats of Uttar Pradesh, 5 in Maharashtra and 2 seats of Bihar.
The names of all those ministers were also included in this list, who got a place in the UP cabinet but were not MLAs or their term was about to end.
Keshav Prasad Maurya
Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh
Dayashankar Singh Mishra Dayalu
JPS Rathore
Jaswant Saini
Danish Azad Ansari
Banwarilal Dohle
Mukesh Sharma
BJP released the list of its 5 candidates for the Legislative Council.
- Praveen Darekar
- Prasad Lad
-Ram Shinde
-Srikanth Bhartiya
-Uma Girish Khapre
P8A aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) arrived in Goa on 6th June to undertake coordinated operations with the P8I of Indian Navy (IN) from 7-9 June. The P8I squadron INAS 316 at INS Hansa, Goa will interact with and host the RAAF P8A aircraft.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Biotech Startup Expo - 2022 here on June 9, his office said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said the two-day expo is being organised by the Department of Biotechnology and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). It is being held to mark the completion of 10 years of setting up of BIRAC.
The theme of the expo is 'Biotech Startup Innovations: Towards AatmaNirbhar Bharat'.
The expo will act as a platform to connect entrepreneurs, investors, industry leaders, scientists, researchers, bio-incubators, manufacturers, regulators and government officials, the PMO said.
About 300 stalls will be set up at the expo, which will showcase the applications of biotechnology in various fields such as healthcare, genomics, biopharma, agriculture, industrial biotechnology, waste-to-value and clean energy, among others, it said.
The maximum temperature in Delhi may dip slightly on Wednesday but isolated areas may record a heatwave.
At the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's base station, the maximum temperature is predicted to settle at 43 degrees Celsius.
Many parts of Delhi had reeled under a punishing heatwave for a fifth consecutive day on Tuesday.
Weather experts said a fresh western disturbance may bring some relief over the weekend.
Five out of 11 weather stations in Delhi recorded a heatwave on Tuesday.
Weather experts have attributed the heatwave spell to the lack of strong western disturbances and incessant hot and dry westerly winds.
Mahesh Palawat, vice-president (climate change and meteorology), Skymet Weather, said a fresh western disturbance may induce a cyclonic circulation over Punjab and Haryana which would lead to intermittent pre-monsoon activity in Haryana, Punjab, north Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh from June 10.
The maximum temperature in the capital may drop to 40-41 degrees Celsius by Friday.
With the monsoon expected to cover eastern India by June 15, easterly winds will bring in moisture and intensify pre-monsoon activity in northwest India.
BJP chief JP Nadda is on a three-day visit to West Bengal. On the second day of his visit today, he will inaugurate West Bengal BJP working committee meeting. He'll also visit Rashbehari Bose Institute. The BJP chief will also visit Vande Mataram Bhawan in Chinsurah.
A total of 10 cars, 1 motorcycle, 2 scooty, 30 new e-rickshaws, and 50 old e-rickshaws had caught fire. No casualties were reported: Delhi Fire Service.
The MPC voted unanimously to increase the policy repo rate by 50 bps to 4.90%: RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
According to the provisional estimates released by the National Statistical Office on May 31st, India's GDP growth ins 2021-22 is estimated at 8.7%. This level of real GDP in 2021-22 has exceeded the pre-pandemic, i.e., 2019-20 level, Das further said.
Iranian TV says passenger train has derailed in eastern Iran; 10 passengers killed, 50 others injured, reports AP
Sensex declines 68.73 points to 55,038.61 in early trade; Nifty falls 13.15 points to 16,403.20
Foreign Minister of Iran, Dr Hossein Amir-Abdollahian arrives to a warm welcome in India "The visit will further boost our deep historical ties and partnership", tweets MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.
Congress MP from Ludhiana Ravneet Singh Bittu on Tuesday received a threat call on his personal assistant's mobile phone, saying he will meet the same fate as his late party colleague and singer Sidhu Moosewala.
The call was received from an unknown caller, claimed his PA Harjinder Singh.
Bittu is the grandson of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh who was assassinated in 1995.
The unknown caller threatened that Bittu will meet the same fate as Moosewala, he said.
Moosewala was shot dead in Punjab's Mansa on May 29.
Jharkhand | Former Bihar CM and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to appear before the special MP, MLA court in Palamu, in connection with a model code of conduct violation case of 2009; security tightened outside the court
The national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party will start on July 2 in Hyderabad, a stronghold of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). The meeting holds importance as it will be held months ahead of the Assembly polls in the state.
Party's national president JP Nadda will chair the meet, which will be attended by all top leaders of the party including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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JP Nadda To Hold Organisational Meetings In Bengal
BJP national president J P Nadda on Tuesday evening arrived in Kolkata for his West Bengal visit during which he will hold organisational meetings.
On Wednesday morning, he will visit Vande Mataram Bhavan at Chinsurah in Hooghly district, where novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay had penned the National Song. He will also visit Rashbehari Bose Research Institute at Chandannagore in the district.
Later in the afternoon, he will attend the state executive body meeting at National Library in South Kolkata. Nadda was received at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Dumdum by senior BJP leaders including state president Sukanta Majumdar.
RBI Likely To Raise Lending Rate On Wednesday
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to raise the benchmark lending rate by 25-50 basis points on Wednesday as inflation continues to remain above its comfort level, news agency PTI quoted experts as saying.
Last month, RBI raised the repo rate or short term lending rate by 40 basis points in an off-cycle monetary policy review to check spiralling inflation.
The decision of the RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das-headed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which started its deliberations on Monday, is scheduled to be announced at 10 am on Wednesday.
Mumbai Court To Hear Bail Pleas Of Deshmukh, Malik For RS Polls Today
A special court in Mumbai will hear the pleas of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and minister Nawab Malik seeking one-day bail to vote in the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections today. Deshmukh and Malik, both NCP leaders who are currently lodged in jail in connection with different money laundering case sought temporary bail from a special court last week to vote in the RS polls.
However, the Enforcement Directorate opposed the pleas, saying prisoners don't have the voting rights under the Representation of the People (RP) Act. In his bail application, Deshmukh said, "Being a standing MLA, the applicant (Deshmukh) is a member of the Electoral College for the election of members to the Rajya Sabha. The applicant is desirous to exercise his franchise and cast his vote."
After more than two decades, the state will witness a contest in the Rajya Sabha polls as there are seven candidates in the fray for the six seats.
Heatwave To Continue In Northwest, Central India On Wednesday
Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Madhya Pradesh are expected to experience heatwave conditions on Wednesday. On the monsoon front, due to westerly winds from Arabian Sea over south peninsular India, fairly widespread rainfall with thunderstorm/lightning is very likely over Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep over the next five days.
Monsoon is expected to be in the weak phase for at least another week and is likely to bring good showers once it picks up pace by June 15.
Parts of northwest and central India were in the grip of a heatwave on Tuesday with Banda in Uttar Pradesh recording a highest maximum temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius with no relief in sight at least till Friday.
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