Over 17,000 schools running under the three municipal corporations of Delhi were closed on Saturday due to heavy smog that has already caused a spike in cases of asthma, allergy and breathlessness
The transferred officers included 22 IAS, 79 IPS, 45 Bihar Administrative Service officers
A Central Pollution Control Board official said the AQI entered the "severe plus" or "emergency" category late on Thursday night, the first time since January this year.
The hijab-row triggered protests in Karnataka spread across the state on Tuesday, with campuses witnessing 'conflict-like' situations marked by stone-pelting incidents, use of force by police and the Muslim girls standing their ground for wearing the headscarves, prompting calls for peace and calm both by the government and the high court, which is now looking into the students' plea for their right to their hijab.
Primary sections of all Delhi schools, which were ordered to close due to severe cold conditions in the city, reopened on Monday. The Delhi government had ordered the closure of primary sections of all schools, including private institutions, for three days on January 29 due to the chilly conditions in the capital. The decision to reopen the schools was taken following improvement in the weather conditions, senior Delhi government officials said.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday ordered the closure of all schools from Wednesday in view of a massive tremors that struck the state and caused loss of life and property.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ousted as the president of Sri Lanka in a popular public uprising in 2022, on Thursday hinted that India was keen on his continuation despite the growing public discontent against him at the behest of certain Western powers.
The heaviest rainfall began to ease across hard-hit portions of Manhattan and Brooklyn late Friday morning, but another round is expected in the afternoon and could reinvigorate dangerous flooding.
All the market places and shops reopened and traffic has resumed as normal in all these districts bringing much relief to the people.
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The three FIRs were registered on Friday, and police stressed that there was no fresh violence and that the situation was under control.
The Punjab government has ordered the closure of schools till July 13 while in Chandigarh schools are closed till Thursday.
A row of buildings in Kullu district collapsed Thursday and hundreds of travellers were stranded in relief camps after landslides blocked the road to Mandi in rain-battered Himachal Pradesh.
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, known as the "Blade Runner" for his carbon-fibre prosthetic legs, was released on parole on Friday, nearly 11 years after murdering his girlfriend.
The decision has been taken due to increasing civilian casualties as two women were killed and seven other civilians injured in alleged firing by Indian troops on Tuesday.
Officials said there were no reports so far of any loss of life or damage to property.
In a statement, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said the air pollution had reached the severe level and asked people to follow the dos and don'ts as mentioned in the advisory.
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The ICC says it is monitoring the air quality in smog-shrouded New Delhi ahead of the World Cup match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on Monday.
Sharp showers continued to lash many parts of Tamil Nadu, including capital Chennai, resulting in water-logging in many areas and forcing closure of schools in the city even as the weather office forecast more rains.
New Delhi's overall air quality index read 456 at 4 pm, up from 425 at 4 pm on Tuesday.
Officials said security personnel, including those from paramilitary forces, have been deployed to keep a strict vigil. Security at inter-state and inter-district borders has also been tightened, they said.
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Europeans are feeling the effects of the "Beast from the East," which refers to frigid winds blowing east to west from Siberia toward the United Kingdom. Temperatures have plunged as much as 20 degrees Celsius below average for this time of year, thanks to these frigid winds. Take a look at how Europe is coping after being dumped with heavy snow.
Teachers will not take classes in the Lucknow University for three days from September 24 and the classes will resume only on September 27, officials said on Thursday.
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The Delhi government on Tuesday ordered closure of primary sections in all schools, including private institutions, till February 2, due to the severe cold conditions in the capital. The step has also been taken as several parents had been approaching the government, citing difficulty to the children in the cold conditions. The order covers all schools -- private, government-aided and government-run.
Authorities ordered closure of schools and other educational institutions as a precautionary measure.
Such measures are effective at slowing disease spread and preventing health systems becoming overwhelmed, they can also lead to job losses and social disruption, noted the study, published in the European Journal of Epidemiology.
Since no effective treatments or vaccine for COVID-19 is available, reducing virus transmission via measures like isolating suspected infected individuals, school closures, and lockdowns are crucial, according to the researchers, including Rajiv Chowdhury from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Nearly three weeks after students and staff members were mercilessly gunned down by Taliban terrorists at the army-run school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014, the doors of the school were reopened on Monday, with classes resuming later this week.
A dozen people lost their lives in various rain-related incidents in and around Chennai while personnel on fishing boats and farm tractors were engaged in rescuing stranded people on Tuesday.
Robert Card, the suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, shooting rampage, was found dead on Friday night, the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Facebook, CNN reported.
Over 2.8 crore students in government run schools in Bihar have been affected by the strike resulting in the indeterminate closure of nearly 77,000 schools.
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Kenya taekwondo champion Vincent Ochieng usually trains in school sports halls in Kisumu, but now he is working out with hundreds of other people on the gritty surface of the western city's biggest highway flyover. The government closed sports facilities in March as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, leaving athletes like Ochieng, who was looking forward to representing Kenya at the World Taekwondo Championships in China in October, with nowhere to train.
Nine more people have died as heavy rains lashed Uttar Pradesh for the third day, taking the death toll to 28, while a red alert has been sounded on Tuesday in six districts including the worst-hit Barabanki and Gonda.
