Delhi govt set to launch new excise policy
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Friday that the upcoming policy would focus not only on modernising the excise system but also on safeguarding the interests of society’s vulnerable sections.
An earthquake that jolted Nepal on Friday evening with tremors felt in Delhi and its adjoining areas.
Notably an earthquake of magnitude 5 on the Richter scale struck Nepal with light tremors being felt in North India.
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Taking to social media, netizens expressed their experiences of the tremors.
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A user posted on X, “Once again I feel an earthquake, this was low intensity with something 20 secs duration. I was in the office when the earthquake came. Meanwhile after 5 minutes I got a notification from my phone that Nepal was the epicenter.”
This comes days after a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 struck Myanmar and Thailand, causing widespread destruction and loss of lives.
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