05.08.21 Archives

Indian Boxer Lovlina Borgohain has failed to attain the gold medal remaining match. She settles for a bronze medal.

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This is Indias third medal of the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. She lost to

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Indian mens hockey team defeated Germany to win their first-ever Olympic medal in forty-one years.

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India wins the bronze medal in mens hockey after beating Germany 5-4 at Tokyo Olympics. Before this podium ended for bronze, India closing climbed up the Olympic podium in 1980, gaining its 8th gold at the Games. Simranjeet Singh scored two desires for India at the

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Nearly 48 per cent parents are not willing to send their children to schools till they are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection, says a new survey.

The survey conducted with over 32,000 parents across 361 districts in the country found that 30 per cent parents are willing to send their wards to schools

if coronavirus cases in their districts come down to zero.

Vaccinating children in the coming months is going to be key if children are to go to schools for physical classes. Forty-eight per cent of the surveyed parents said they are not willing to send their children to schools till they are vaccinated.

“At least 21 per cent of parents said whenever the schools reopen, they are

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ready to send their wards there,” said the survey by an online platform,Local Circles.

Nearly 47 per cent of the respondents of the survey were from tier 1 districts, 27 per cent from tier 2 and 26 per cent respondents were from tier 3, 4 and rural districts.

The states that have partially reopened schools this month include Gujarat,Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh,Haryana,Madhya Pradeshand Bihar.Rajasthan,Himachal Pradeshand Andhra Pradesh have announced reopening of schools in the first week of August.

Nearly 27% of the food samples picked up for testing in 2020-21 did not conform to the standards and one out of every five non-conforming samples was found to be unsafe.
In a written reply, the food and consumer affairs ministry toldRajya Sabha that 23,493 out of the 86,696 food samples that were analysed were found non-conforming to the standards and 4,675 samples were found to be unsafe. Another 11,027 of the samples that were analysed were found as substandard.

According to the government data, a maximum of 1,921 food samples were found unsafe in Uttar Pradesh, followed byTamil Nadu(1,221) andKerala(543).Meghalayawas the only state where all 48 samples were found to be conforming with the prescribed standards.
The ministry informed theUpper Housethat 20,959 civil cases were registered against the offenders and 13,195 cases were decided. Another 3,608 criminal cases were initiated against the violators and 486 cases were decided. According to the ministry, the agencies

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The has authorized a USD 250 million project in India for long-term dam safety Software and improving the safety and performance of existing Dams across quite a number of states of India.

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The 2nd Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP-2) agreement

was inked on between the World Bank, the Indian Government, the Central Water Commission, and government representatives from 10 collaborating states. The assignment will be applied at the countrywide stage through the Central Water Commission (Cwc).

At the national level, about a hundred and twenty dams will be undertaken throughout Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya,

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Odisha, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu. Other states or businesses may additionally be added to the mission at some point of task implementation.