Esha Roy

The states with the highest number of complaints include Uttar Pradesh with 90, Delhi with 37, Bihar with 18, Madhya Pradesh with 11 and Maharashtra with 18.

According to officials, residents are flooding the helpline for essential services with demands for pizzas, samosas and the like.

Rampur DM Ajani Kumar Singh Monday personally ensured that the man who called up the Swar tehsil control room number to demand "four samosas" be sent to him, was fined and then punished – he was made to clean all the drains in an area.

The group had gone to Visakhapatnam by ship in February, and then taken a train to Delhi on March 18. On March 24, six members of the group took a Vistara flight to Port Blair via Kolkata, while another took an Indigo flight.

The feeding centres are to be opened and run by the municipal corporations of Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Indore, Nagpur, Lucknow and Patna.

"I am happy to announce that today I have given environmental approval for Greenfield International Airport in Goa. This will pave the way for overall development for the region and give boost to tourism in the state," he tweeted.

Ningthou Leishemba Sanajaoba, who is the BJP’s Rajya Sabha nomination from the state, has links with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since childhood.

Home Ministry officials said the states have informed the home secretary that doctors are conducting regular screening at various transit points and the community in border areas has been sensitised through gram sabhas about the precautions to be taken.

The bamboo water bottles have been ordered from Assam through Sikkim Rajya Sabha MP Hishey Lachungpa. Sikkim was the first state in the country to take steps against the use of plastic, bringing in restrictive measures as far back as 1998.

India’s plastic industry recorded an annual revenue worth Rupees 3.5-lakh crore in 2019, according to All India Plastic Manufacturers Association.  The predicted polymer consumption growth between 2017-2022 is 12.9 per cent, the study.

In contrast to the Peafowl, the report shows, 50 per cent of other Indian species have declined over this period.

The State of India's Bird 2020 report assesses the status of 867 Indian birds using a massive database of information contributed by at least 15,500 birdwatchers from across the country

The attempt to open the strong room is part of evaluation of the royal inheritance being done by the Rampur district court, following a Supreme Court order on July 31 last year on the dispute within the royal family.

The Finance Minister announced an allocation of Rs 35,600 crore to various nutrition programmes, including Poshan Abhiyaan or Nutrition Mission launched by the BJP in 2017-18.

Eight states and two Union Territories — Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Goa. Sikkim, Chandigarh and Puducherry — lead the rankings in the Sustainable Development Goals India Index 2019.

The guidelines also push for online sales and purchase of sand and other riverbed materials to make the process transparent. They propose night surveillance of mining activity through night-vision drones.

Chief Secretary Temjen Toy has announced that the state government is considering diverting a part of the salary given to government employees in order to develop infrastructure.

According to the new agreement, approximately 35,000 Bru refugees will settle in Tripura and will be given aid to help with their rehabilitation.

On paper, much of this destruction of quality natural forests was compensated by plantations — a total of 10,227 sq km of non-forests became dense forests in successive two-year windows since 2003. Again, more than half of this — 5,458 sq km — since 2015.