Even as politics is heating up over the death of a party worker at the Congress office in Lucknow during its agitation on Wednesday, Prabhat Pandey’s last rites were performed in Gorakhpur on Thursday.
The Delhi government will provide an ex gratis of Rs One crore to the next of the kin of five Covid warriors, who lost their lives during the Corona epidemic, an official statement said on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced an ex-gratia for the victims of the bus accident in Tanahun district, Nepal. An ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from PMNRF will be given to the next of kin of each deceased and the injured will be given Rs 50,000.
According to the list of victims released by the district administration, the deceased included 106 devotees from 17 districts of UP, as well as one devotee each from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, Palwal in Haryana and Deeg in Rajasthan, as well as three from Faridabad.
The PM said that he has spoken to the officials to take stock of the situation.
Akhilesh said, "I met all the families of the deceased and all of them want justice. I expect that the truth will come out. There are several cases where justice had not been served. National Human Rights Commission has given the report where Uttar Pradesh has the most numbers of custodial deaths."
The State Governments will now have an amount of Rs 23,186.40 crore in their SDRF, including the States’ share, during 2021-22, in addition to the amount of opening balance available in their SDRF
the top court had observed that there have been cases where people suffering from Covid-19 died by suicide and such people do not form part of the guidelines issued on September 3.
The apex court directed NDMA to form guidelines for compensation in six weeks. "What reasonable amount to be provided is left to the wisdom of national authority," said the top court bench
Thousands living around the Idukki dam and in Ernakulam and Thrissur heaved a sigh of relief as heavy rains spared Kerala on Saturday.
