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The state suffered an estimated loss of Rs 12,000 crore due to excessive rains this monsoon, a senior official said. The five per cent Value Added Tax will be a temporary measure, he added.

The Trinamool Congress supremo stressed that the NRC was meant for Assam and she went to New Delhi to inform the Home ministry about the ordeal of the people of that state.

Asserting that climate change has become a reality due to global warming, around 300 people, most of them school students, staged demonstrations outside the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

While underscoring the damage that climate change does to human lives, Samia Nkrumah pointed out that poverty had to be thought in the context of reduction in agricultural productivity and the women, who globally, tend to the farms and their families.

While unofficial figures say there have been 56 dengue-related deaths, the state government has maintained that no one has died of the mosquito-borne disease so far this year.

Posting pictures of his assault at Jadavpur University campus on September 19 Union Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo said those who were involved in his assault would be 'found out' soon.

The yojana is a rural development program focusing on the development in the villages, which includes social and cultural development along with infrastructure.

Odisha has been declared disaster-affected for 93 of the last 105 years. Of this, it was affected 50 times by floods, 32 times by drought and 11 times by cyclones.

The sources said former Karnataka food and civil supplies minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan was called at the agency office where he was questioned by the CBI team probing the IMA scam.

Commuters faced difficulties in reaching their destinations as several private buses, taxis and autorickshaws remained off the roads due to the strike.

Adityanath said that merit is the means of selection to the posts in the administration and the officers appointed have not been there on the basis of their caste.

Hundreds of people suffering from viral fever, malaria and seasonal diseases and also showing dengue symptoms are undergoing treatment at major government-run hospitals and private healthcare facilities in Hyderabad and other parts of the state.

The NDRF will have four new battalions in addition to the 12, and they will be based in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the National Capital Region.

Till date, 342 trains have been converted into HOG, while 284 more will be converted by the year-end, resulting in more savings, Railway Board Rajesh Agarwal said.

Trade tensions between India and the US have been rising with US President Donald Trump complaining that tariffs imposed by New Delhi on American products were 'no longer acceptable'.

Mumbai's suburbs received heavy rain on Wednesday night, with Versova recording 50mm rain within three hours.