New Delhi,  Four people, including three minors, drowned to death while taking bath in the Yamuna river in the national capital, an official said on Friday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (north), Sagar Singh Kalsi, said they received a call at 1.20 a.m. stating that four persons have gone missing.

New Delhi, Highlighting that the issue of vector control and elimination is cross-cutting and requires close collaboration with several other departments, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday exhorted the states to ensure inter-sectoral coordination and work closely with other related departments.

Hyderabad,  Heavy rains lashed parts of Telangana on Friday even as the India Meteorological Department has issued a red warning for some districts for the next two days.

Several parts of the state continued to receive rains since Thursday night. Two women were killed in a wall collapse in Nalgonda town.

Chandigarh, Haryana's Leader of Opposition Chief Minister and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday said inflation, drugs, crime and corruption have been rising under the helm of the BJP-JJP government in the state with unemployment rate as high as 30.6 per cent.

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Patna,  A day after former Union Minister R.C.P. Singh claimed that he is a self-made leader, Bihar minister and JD-U leader Ashok Chaudhary on Friday claimed that he does not even have capacity to assemble even 5,000 people.

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New Delhi,  Believing it's a major achievement by India in its crusade against single-use plastic pollution, former UN Environment chief Erik Solheim on Friday said four years ago he worked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its ban.

"A huge moment for India's environment," tweeted So

Bengaluru,  The health scheme for Karnataka government employees is set to be extended to retired employees too, and a formal announcement in this regard would be made soon after discussing it with the Finance Department, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday.

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