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  The green court held the company accountable for the violation of a partly undertaken expansion without prior environmental clearance from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs 25 crore on Vedanta Limited for violating the environmental norms by expanding its plant at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district. A special bench of NGT chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel was dealing with an appeal against the environmental clearance dated November 20, 2015 granted to Vedanta Limited (formerly Sesa Sterlite Ltd.), Bhubaneshwar... read more

  Today the country is encouraging talent, trade and technology as much as possible. Today the country is registering dozens of start-ups every day, creating a unicorn every week, PM Modi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called for reducing slavery to foreign goods even as Indians celebrate 75 years of Independence. Inaugurating the Jain International Trade Organisation's 'JITO Connect 2022 business meet via video link, Modi said the stress should be on the vocal for local' mantra and reducing the use of foreign goods. Today the country is encouraging talent, trade and technology as... read more

 Haryana police have said that they foiled a major terror plot after the 4 suspected Pakistan-linked terrorists were held in Karnal on Thursday morning when they were on their way to Telangana Police from Maharashtra's Nanded have sent a team to Karnal in Haryana after four suspected Pakistan-linked terrorists were held there and arms, ammunition and IEDs were recovered from their vehicle, a senior official said on Friday. The police team from the Maharashtra district was sent after an official from Haryana said that the four suspects were heading to a location close to Nanded when they were nabbed. The Haryana police have said that they foiled a major terror plot... read more

Militants carried out 34 attacks in April, killing 55 people, including 34 security forces personnel: Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies Pakistan has witnessed a 24 per cent increase in the number of militant attacks in April as compared to March 2022, according to data released by a think-tank. Militants carried out 34 attacks in April, killing 55 people, including 34 security forces personnel. Thirteen civilians and eight militants were also killed in these attacks, while 25 people -- 11 security personnel and 14 civilians -- were injured, Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) said in a press release on Wednesday. Militants carried out 26 attacks across Pakistan in March 2022 in... read more

The Russian military said it used sea- and air-launched missiles to destroy electric power facilities at five railway stations across Ukraine Russia moved to obstruct the flow of Western weapons to Ukraine by bombarding rail stations and other supply-line targets across the country while the European Union weighed whether to further punish Moscow with a ban on oil imports. Heavy fighting also raged Wednesday at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol that represented the last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southern port city, according to the mayor. A Russian official denied that Moscow's troops were storming the plant, but the commander of the main Ukrainian military unit inside said Russian soldiers had pushed into the mill's territory. The Russian military said it used sea- and air-launched missiles to... read more

Large firms hired 321,000 workers, medium-sized businesses added 46,000, while small companies cut 120,000 employees Private companies in the US added 247,000 jobs in April, indicating a slower growth in a tight labour market, payroll data company Automatic Data Processing (ADP) reported. Earlier data from the Labor Department showed that US unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 per cent in March as the Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 surge faded, which was slightly above the pre-pandemic level of 3.5 per cent, Xinhua news agency quoted the ADP report as saying on Wednesday. The service sector saw a job gain of 202,000 in April, while goods-producing sector added 46,000 jobs, according to... read more

Shanghai reported most of the new cases China reported a total of 360 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, of which 261 were reported solely in Shanghai, according to the National Health Commission's report on Thursday, while people in Shanghai are falling sick after consuming some of the food supplied by the local administration. Shanghai reported most of the new cases. The city reported a total number of 261 confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases. Moreover, a total of 4,390 local asymptomatic cases were reported, the municipal health commission... read more