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Rahul Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra Ahead of the Rath New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI): Rahul Gandhi Playing Politics Over Covid Crisis: BJP Yatra, in Kolkata, Tuesday https://www.facebook.com/centralchronicle CENTRAL CC PAGE 06 PAGE 07 Bilaspur, Wednesday, June 23, 2021 I Pages 08 I Price R 3.00 I City Edition I Fastest growing English Daily of Chhattisgarh www. centralchronicle.in BRIEF White paper on Covid management TAJ MAHAL VISIT Govt should prepare for Covid third An artist makes an idol of wave, vaccinate on war footing: Rahul Jagannath, Balaram and Subhadra ahead of the Rath New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI): Rahul Gandhi playing politics over Covid crisis: BJP Yatra, in Kolkata, Tuesday. Congress leader Rahul New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday accused Rahul Gandhi of play- Gandhi on Tuesday urged ing politics over the coronavirus crisis after the Congress leader Ammunition seized the government to prepare released a "white paper" on the Centre's handling of the pan- for the third wave of coro- demic. Hours after Gandhi released the document, BJP national Bhubaneswar: A cache of navirus by improving spokesperson Sambit Patra told a press conference, "Since yes- arms and ammunition has medical infrastructure terday we have been fearing this. Whenever something good been seized after an and vaccinate on a war happens in our fight against coronavirus, the Congress and exchange of fire between footing to protect all Rahul Gandhi specially do something to derail it." "Yesterday security personnel and Indians. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was a significant day when India became the first country in the Maoists in Odisha's He also released a interacts with member of the press, world to administer 87 lakh vaccine doses in one day. People Kandhamal district, a "white paper" by the party via video conference in New Delhi. seemed excited and jubilant. There is a feeling that India is win- senior police officer said on the Centre's Covid han- ning in its fight against coronavirus, just then Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday. One .303-cal- dling, saying, "It is pretty deaths have been needless spoke of white paper and tried to derail it, he said. ibre rifle, 12-bore coun- clear that the management and could have been avoid- trymade gun, INSAS mag- of the first and second ed. azine and seven electric wave was disastrous." "The prime minister's them," he said. He alleged chief said there were some detonators, were among Gandhi also took a tears cannot wipe the the prime minister did not central reasons as to why the things that were swipe at the prime minis- tears of those who lost the take the second wave seri- the first and second waves recovered, he said. ter for turning emotional lives of their kin. The PM's ously and was fighting were disastrous and added while talking about Covid tears did not save the lives elections in Bengal and his that the party has "tried to Badminton player Saina Nehwal with her husband Parupalli Kashyap visit the Taj Naxals surrender deaths in his address to of those who died, but oxy- focus was elsewhere. point out those reasons in Mahal in Agra, Tuesday. Dantewada: Three the nation, and said the gen could have saved The former Congress our white paper". Naxals, one of them car- rying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, have SC refuses to interfere with CBSE, No balance doses of direct state procurement Badaun MP seeks Nusrat Jahan’s surrendered in Chhattisgarh's CISCE assessment scheme for disqualification from Lok Sabha Dantewada district, an pending with Covid vaccine manufacturers: Govt official said on Tuesday. evaluating Class 12 students Badaun (UP), Jun 22 (PTI): their wedding in Turkey The cadres were alleged- New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI): did not have recognition in New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI): also noted the submission Rural areas administered BJP's Badaun MP Indian law. Jahan, who is ly involved in planting more doses than urban in improvised explosive of Attorney General K K The health ministry on Sanghamitra Maurya has reportedly dating actor-as- devices (IEDs), damaging The Supreme Court on Venugopal, assisting the Tuesday said the Centre record Covid vaccination written to the Lok Sabha sembly poll candidate Yash Tuesday refused to inter- court in individual capaci- had ensured that the full speaker, demanding dis- Dasgupta, said in a state- roads and bridges and New Delhi: As India achieved a putting up Maoist posters fere with the assessment ty and also appearing for supplies of COVID-19 vac- "historic milestone" of admin- qualification of TMC MP ment that as her marriage and banners in the interi- scheme propounded by the Centre, that University cines under direct state istering 88.09 lakh coronavirus Nusrat Jahan for allegedly ceremony with Jain had ors of Dantewada and both CBSE and CISCE for Grants Commission procurement were provid- vaccine doses in a single day giving a false affidavit over taken place in accordance neighbouring Sukma dis- evaluation of Class 12 stu- (UGC) will issue directives ed to the states concerned on June 21, nearly 64 per cent her marital status to the with the Turkish Marriage tricts since 2015, he said. dents, whose board exami- to all the colleges and var- before June 21. of the jabs were given in rural Parliament. Regulation, the marriage is nations have been can- sities that admissions be The ministry issued a areas, the government said on The TMC MP and film invalid here. celled due to the COVID-19 made after the declaration statement, saying certain Tuesday. Addressing a joint actor Nusrat Jahan gave a Terming the TMC MP's Covid package pandemic. of results by all the boards media reports have al- A health worker escorts an elderly press conference on the pan- false affidavit hiding her ac- conduct as unethical Bengaluru: Karnataka The top court rejected -- CBSE, CISCE and state leged non-supply of free woman to receive a dose of demic situation and vaccina- tual marital status. I have Maurya said she deceived Chief Minister B S the objections raised by a boards. vaccines for the 18-44 pri- COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination tion status, the official said, "A sent a letter to Lok Sabha her voters on the issue of Yediyurappa on Tuesday parents' body as well as The top court, which ority age group to the centre at Central stadium in historic milestone was Speaker Om Birla in this re- her marriage, tarnished the launched the Rs 6.23 crore students and said that it is dealt with all the major ob- Delhi government amid Thiruvananthapuram, Tuesday. achieved on 21st June 2021 -- gard on June 19," Maurya, image of Parliament and financial assistance not possible to have a sec- jections of the interveners the ongoing free COVID-19 88.09 lakh doses administered who was on a day's visit to undermined its dignity. in a single day." Of the doses, scheme to artists who are ond guess approach with -- Uttar Pradesh Parents' vaccination drive. the state procurement her constituency, told This issue needs to be 36.32 per cent were adminis- under distress due to regard to various aspects Association, and second "It is clarified that the data, the allocated 5.6 lakh newspersons. Popular sent to the Ethics tered in urban areas and 63.68 Covid-19 induced lock- of the assessment scheme. compartment and private Government of India had doses of direct state pro- per cent in rural areas, the Tollywood heroine and Committee for proper in- down, under the govern- A special bench of students -- said the scheme ensured that full supplies curement were supplied to official said. Trinamool Congress MP vestigation and she should ment's package announced Justices A M Khanwilkar propounded cannot be of COVID-19 vaccines Delhi before June 21 by the Nusrat Jahan had earlier be disqualified, Maurya for the second wave. The and Dinesh Maheshwari doubted on the mere ap- under the direct state pro- vaccine manufacturers. this month claimed in said, adding Nusrat Jahan financial assistance of Rs said, We accept the prehension of manipula- curement were provided Further, an additional to Delhi for free and more Kolkata that her marriage has lied in the temple of 3,000 to each will be pro- scheme as propounded by tion of marks by the CBSE to the concerned states be- 8.8 lakh vaccine doses are in the pipeline, which with businessman Nikhil democracy where rules are vided to more than 20 both the boards-(CBSE schools to favour their fore June 21," the state- under the Centre's pro- will be supplied by June- Jain was not a legal one but made and from where the thousand artists, and it will and CISCE) . The bench own students. ment said. According to curement were provided end, the statement said. a live-in relationship as country is run. be credited through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), the Elgar case: HC directs Chief Minister's office said India records less than 50k Opposition leaders hold in a release. NIA to file reply on Sudha Covid cases, lowest in 91 days Bharadwaj's bail plea meeting at Pawar’s residence Policeman suicide Mumbai, Jun 22 (PTI): Korba: A police constable New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI): COVID-19 recovery rate New Delhi, Jun 22 (PTI): allegedly committed sui- has improved to 96.49 per The Bombay High Court on Rahul parries queries on opposition leaders' meeting Tuesday directed the National cide by hanging himself at India recorded less than cent, the data updated at 8 Leaders of several oppo- New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday parried Investigation Agency to file its his house in Chhattisgarh's 50,000 new coronavirus in- am showed.
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