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Corona virus update: India Crosses 11 lakh cases.

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Neha Kumari
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Coronavirus update: More than 40000 new cases of coronavirus reported yesterday. With this fresh cases, this week was dead deadliest week of India.
As 2.38 lakh new cases were reported within this week.

Over 650 death’s were reported yesterday. While this week 4,285 Corona patient died .

Source- Medical Dialogue

Due to rise in Corona cases, Kerala treats up to five 50000 patients at a time.

”Satish Dhawan Space Centre to function with minimum essential/skeletal staff with immediate effect and until further orders, to avoid further transmissions & to complete contact tracing of primary & secondary contacts of detected cases”,Statement Andhra Pradesh government.

”Covid-19 will not be controlled by jugaad”, says Mayawati to UP govt

BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) chief on Monday criticized the Uttar Pradesh government over its management of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the corona virus has assumed a “horrible shape” in the UP and it is a matter of serious concern.

Meanwhile Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain said, ”Let’s leave the technical battle on Center to decide over community spread.There is spread in the community, now it’s very technical to say either it’s local or community spread. Source of many positive patients remains unknown after test.”

Assam Floods: 24 districts adversely affected, death toll rises to 84

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Shivani Negi
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The flood situation have slightly improved in Assam on Sunday, the officials said. As of now, the floods have claimed as many as 84 lives with five deaths reported on Sunday.

At least 24 districts of the state are still in drowned in water.

The state has been predicted to receive heavy rain till 21 July and a red alert for the same has been issued. Not only humans, but also the wildlife has greatly been affected by the heavy rains. According to the officials, 108 wild animals have died at Kaziranga National Park.

As per the disaster management authorities, over 27 lakh people and 2,678 villages are hit by the floods with Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Biswanath, Darrang and Baksa being the worst affected areas.

“A total of 27,63,719 people and 1,16,404.01 hectares of crop area had been affected by the floods.” a Flood Report issued by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.

“The government has so far opened 649 relief camps that are currently providing relief to 47,465 people. 181 boats have been deployed and 511 persons have been evacuated,” it further added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the situation with Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on phone. He also asked about the covid-19 situation in the state, Chief Minister Sonowal said.

Taking to his Twitter handle, Sonowal tweeted: “Hon”ble PM Shri @narendramodi ji took stock of the contemporary situation regarding #AssamFloods2020, #COVID19 and Baghjan Oil Well fire scenario over phone this morning. Expressing his concern and solidarity with the people, the PM assured all support to the state.”

Kangana Ranaut makes shocking revelations about Bollywood, calls out ‘movie mafia’ for abetting Sushant’s suicide

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Shivani Negi
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Calling Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide as “a planned murder”, Kangana Ranaut has lashed out at several prominent personalities of the Hindi film industry in an interview with a TV channel. Taking a dig at Karan Johar, Aditya Chopra and Mahesh Bhatt, Kangana highlighted alleged discrimination in Bollywood by “movie mafia” which prompted Sushant to take his own life.

Kangana also added that these ‘movie mafia’ tried to ‘sabotage’ Sushant Singh Rajput’s career. She also accused Yash Raj Films(YRF) of harassing the late actor mentally, adding that they didn’t let Sushant work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s films.

The Manikarnika actor revealed that she was also threatened by Aditya Chopra for refusing to work with Salman Khan in Sultan and even told her that her “career is finished” while mentioning that she even contemplated suicide.

Pooja Bhatt had recently made a statement in which she said that Kangana was introduced in Bollywood Mahesh Bhatt. Kangana, on her part, said that it was Anurag Basu who spotted her talent. She also added that Bhatt has once thrown his footwear at her when she rejected to work with him.

Talking abour Swara Bhasker and Taapsee Pannu, Kangana in her interview said: “What I want to convey through this interview is… for me, I have only to lose here… because I know tomorrow they will get some 20 needy outsiders like Taapsee Pannu or Swara Bhasker who will get up and say, ‘Oh! Only Kangana has problems with nepotism. We love Karan Johar’. If you love Karan Johar, why are you both B-grade actresses? You are both better looking than Alia Bhatt and Ananya (Panday). You both are better actresses. Why don’t you get work? Your whole existence is proof of nepotism. What are you telling me about how happy you are with the industry?”

Taapsee Pannu took to twitter to react to Kangana’s remark and wrote: “Don’t be bitter, be better.”

Referring to Kangana’s B-grade actress remark, Taapsee in another tweet wrote that after classes 12 and 10, even their results are also out! Are we officially following the grade system too? Before this, we were graded on numbers, right, she added.

Swara also replied to Kangana’s statements and wrote that she took her word as compliments.

Sushant was found dead at his Bandra apartment on June 14. His death has sparked an extreme debate on nepotism. Ever since his death, Kangana has been fiercely addressing the issue while making some serious claims about the Hindi film industry.

Uttarakhand: Cloudburst in Pithoragarh leaves 3 killed, 8 missing

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Shivani Negi
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Three people were killed and eight others have been missing after a cloud burst following heavy rains in two villages of Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand, news agency ANI reported on Monday.

On Monday morning, heavy rains caused havoc in Taga village of Munsyari and Gela Village of Bangapani in Pithoragarh, causing damage to many houses of the two villages of Pithoragth. Three people have died in Gela village while as many as 8 people of Taga village are missing.

The rescue teams reached the spot to carry out rescue operation. The search for the missing people has begun in the village and neighboring area.

“A rescue team is present at the spot,” VK Jogdande, Pithoragarh’s district magistrate was quoted as saying by ANI.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister, Trivendra Singh Rawat, has instructed District Magistrate, Pithoragrah to provide relief amount to the affected families.

Pithorgarh has been always a sensitive spot for heavy rainfalls. Every year the district faces major destruction followed in the monsoon season.

The heavy rains in the district began on Saturday night with many villages swamped by debris. Now, Monday cloud burst has caused panic among the villagers.

TikTok in view of changing its headquarters to London to exempt link from China

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Shivani Negi
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TikTok is currently in discussion with the UK government as it plans to relocate its headquarters to London. The decision has come after the wildly popular app received flak and has even been banned in some countries for its link with China.

London is among one of the several locations the company is considering for the headquarters, but the final decision is yet to be made. It is also not clear that what other locations are under consideration.

TikTok is currently facing issues in Washington as it has been claimed that China could force company to hand over users’ personal data.

According to a report published in The Indian Express, the source close to the matter has mentioned that the company is focusing on its issues with the US over the last few weeks, but hasn’t ruled out London as a potential location for its news headquarters. The source also added that TikTok is currently considering “significantly” increasing the workforcre in London and other locations outside China in the coming years.

Owned by Chinese tech Giant ByteDance, TikTok is a video sharing platform which allows people to share short clips upto 15 secons. People also use the app for lip syncs, dances, tricks, art and various other things that they are good at.

The Indian government last month banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok which had a huge fan-base in the country. While banning the apps, government said that these apps are “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order.”

Companies having link with PLA are under watch by Indian government

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Neha Kumari
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Chinese global companies like Huawei, Alibaba and others having a direct or indirect link with the Chinese Army and could face action in India. These cos are among Chinese companies which the government sources claim having links with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

The 7 Chinese companies under the scanner are Xindia Steels, Xinxing Cathay international, China electronic technology group, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, SAIC motor corporation. Government sources say that “these companies are under watch and could face potential action”.

Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent are part of China’s military-civil fusion and artificial intelligence projects. Sources pointing to the 2019 report of US-China economic and security review commission said, ”under China’s military-civil fusion policy, government-supported mechanisms, including venture capital (VC) funds…(are used for) leveraging the fruits of civilian innovation for China’s defence sector.”

Alibaba has made investment in Indian start-ups including popular ones like PayTM, Zomato, Big basket, Snapdeal, Xpressbees. Tencent has made mega investments in Indian tech space including $400 million in Ola cabs, $700 million in Flipkart.

SAIC Motor Corporation, a Chinese state-owned automobile company headquartered in Shanghai, sells Sport utility vehicle MG Hector in India. One of the company’s subsidiary is Nanjing Automobile, which was previously a vehicle servicing unit of PLA.

Xinxing Cathay International Group, a metal products manufacturing country, is present in India in various forms including a Joint Venture Xindia Steels Ltd. Employees of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) have been convicted of military espionage and it provides technology which is believed to be used for human rights abuses in the restive western province of Xinjiang in China. The company has invested Rs 320 crores in a manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh in 2018.

India last month banned 59 Chinese apps, including popular Chinese TikTok app, after a violent face-off at Line Of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh in which 20 Indian soldiers martyred.

Kerala gold smuggling case: Customs to probe phone calls made to UAE

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Neha Kumari
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Over 13 people have been arrested in Kerala gold smuggling case.

Investigation into Thiruvananthapuram airport gold smuggling case has entered a crucial phase with customs gearing up to interrogate all those involved even those who give statement about Swapna Suresh and Sarith Nair.

The customs officials decided to examine all phone calls made by accused.

M. Sivasankar was chairman of KSITIl ( Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Limited ) . Where Swapna was an operation manager, the government had further removed Sivasankar as the state IT secretary .

Even phone calls of Sivasankar will be examined to gather more evidence in this sensational case.

Although there is no direct evidence which indicate the involvement of Sivasankar.
Customs has identified the kingpin in the UAE who was behind the smuggling of gold through diplomatic channels to Kerala, sources said.

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Customs sources said the person hailed from Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district and was involved in several other smuggling instances.“He was involved in the smuggling of gold worth Rs 1,200 crore in 2013 to 2015 through Kochi international airport. The gold seized from the diplomatic cargo belonged to that person, who is yet to be named in the FIR. His role came to the fore while questioning the arrested middlemen,” sources said.

Earlier on July 7, at Thiruvananthapuram airport, the Custom officials had seized 30 kg of gold from the diplomatic baggage.The baggage was supposed to have food items . But later Custom officials checked the baggage after getting necessary approval from the ministry of external affairs.

Then the officials took Sarith ( former PRO at UAE consulate) into custody. Further, it was disclosed that Sarith is no longer an employee at the UAE consulate . But still after his dismissal, he continued introducing himself as PRO at UAE consulate.

While Swapna is working at KSIT in their IT department as an operations manager.

The customs officials said that they suspected smuggling syndicate had misused the name of a person who enjoys diplomatic powers.

Another senior Custom official said that the investigation will also look into the role of other employees of consulate.

Donald Trump attack book written by his niece Mary Trump

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Neha Kumari
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Donald Trump strongly criticizes his niece Mary Trump over her book ‘Seldom-Seen niece’. Trump has described his niece as a mess, when she attacks him as a narcissist who was utterly incapable of leading the country.

“Donald is a psychologically deeply damaged man, based on his upbringing and the situation with his parents. He is not going to get better, and he is, without question, going to get worse.”,” she told CNN.

Trump took aim at Marry on Twitter, describing her as the latest in a line of people releasing books about him.

“Next up is Mary Trump, a seldom-seen niece who knows little about me, says untruthful things about my wonderful parents (who couldn’t stand her!) and me, and violated her NDA,” he wrote.

Donald posted a number of tweets attacking Mary Trump over her book about life in the Trump family. In her book she targets the president governing style back to his upbringing.

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man was released last week after a New York Supreme Court judge lifted an order that had blocked Ms Trump from publicising or distributing her work.


In the book, Ms Trump, a trained psychologist and the President’s only niece, characterises Mr Trump as a narcissist, saying “he meets all nine criteria as outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.”

“She also broke the Law by giving out my tax returns. She’s a mess!”

Supreme court submits two reports on Char Dham project

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Neha Kumari
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The Supreme court submitted two different reports to the environment, forest and climate change Ministry.

There is vertical division in the supreme court appointed committee on Char Dham highway project. The issue is related to road width.

The main report was signed by its chairman,environmentalist Ravi Chopra.

While the other four members has favoured “intermediate carriage way of 5.5 metre” citing a road ministry circular of March 2018.
Another report submitted by 16 main members of the Supreme court has recommended road widith of “double lane with paved shoulder” which works out to be 10 meter.

But the final decision will impact at least 150 to kilometre of the 826 km of Char Dham project.

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But Chopra in his report has said, “The majority seems to believe that what it decides is final, even if it violates the law, the Supreme Court and causes irreversible and permanent damage to the Himalayas.”

In Supreme court Final report the other 21 members have said that the panels chairman change the manuscript of few chapters, ignoring that this would discussed and approved in earlier meetings. Also he had redrafted a few chapters.

“So much so, the chairman tried to leave the issue pertaining to road width for decision of the Supreme Court whereas the same was finally decided by majority voting. By such an act the chairman tried to drag the whole matter once again to the Supreme Court by defeating the very purpose of constituting the HPC by the SC,” the report said.

But Chopra’s main report has referred to 2018 road ministry circular which had recommended adopting intermediate carriage way of 5.5 meter for hilly terrains. He said that the circular been available before there would have been any voting. But 13 memner of them are still supporting double lane with paved shoulder.

Chopra said the allegation of undermining the majority vote was unfortunate. “If the majority chooses to tread a path which contradicts the court’s directions and TORs and even ignores MoRTH’s own 2018 circular, I believe that the most judicious way is to leave it to the wisdom of the Supreme Court. That is what I have done.”

Video: House collapses near ITO as Delhi witnesses heavy rainfall for 3 hours

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Shivani Negi
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New Delhi: The National capital region, on Sunday morning, received its first heavy rainfall of the season, leaving several parts of the city thrashed. A two-storey house in the slum area of Anna Nagar near ITO Ring Road collapsed as a portion of the road along it cracked-in due to heavy rains.

A video of the incident is going viral on the social media wherein the house can be seen swept in along with the rushing water. As per the reports, no casualty has been recorded so far. People, who shot the video, can be heard asking residents to vacate the building immediately.

Following the incident, the Centralized Accident and Trauma Services(CATS) and fire engines rushed to the spot.

Pushpa, a resident of the slum area in Delhi’s Anna Nagar, told ANI, “The flow of water in the nullah was intense, running water entered a pit which was dug to construct a parking facility, causing severe erosion which led to the collapse of nearby houses. My house vanished as if it never existed.”

According to the Indian Meteorological Department, Delhi received heavy rainfall from 5:30 am to 8:30 am on Sunday. Ridge Road, Lodhi Road, and Safdarjung recorded a rainfall of 8.6 cm, 8.1 cm and 7.5 cm respectively.

Meanwhile, the blame-game after the heavy rains swamped Delhi started with BJP and Congress blaming the ruling party AAP.

Amit Malviya, national in-charge of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) IT cell, tweeted a video of the inundated ITO crossings and wrote: “ITO, one of busiest crossings in Delhi, this morning…Just heard CM Arvind Kejriwal say it is not the time for blame game. Off course, it isn’t. It is perhaps time for Delhiites to swim just to save their lives? The not so lucky ones have died though or lost their homes…”

Coronavirus vaccine update: AIIMS Delhi to start human trials of covaxin from Monday

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Shivani Negi
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New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) Ethics Committee has given its approval for carrying out the human clinical trials of India’s potential indigenous covid-19 vaccine, covaxin. The trials will be conducted on 100 volunteers aged between 18 and 55 from Monday at AIIMS Delhi.

“Today, we got approval from AIIMS Ethics Committee for starting the human clinical trial of the indigenously developed Covaxin. We are launching the enrollment process from Monday. We are going to select healthy participants with no comorbidities and without a history of COVID-19. The age group of the study population is 18 to 55 years. This would be a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial,” ANI quoted Dr Sanjay Rai, Professor at the Centre for Community Medicine at AIIMS, as saying.

Covaxin has been developed by Bharat Biotech along with the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) and the National Institute of Virology(NIV). The first phase clinical trial of the vaccine has begun from July 15 on 375 volunteers across the country. The country’s drug regulator has already given a green signal for human trials, after vaccine’s promising results shown on guinea pigs and mice.

AIIMS Delhi has also set up a dedicated email and phone number for the volunteers to register themselves for the trials. Before giving the vaccination, proper health screening of the volunteers will be performed.

Notably, covaxin trials are being carried out at 12 places across the nation. Trials have already started at AIIMS Patna and a few other places.

Bharat Biotech has envisaged to launch the vaccine for public health use by 15th August after completing all the mandatory clinical trials. The company is a worldwide supplier of four billion doses of infections like rotavirus, hepatitis, zika, Japanese encephalitis and others.

Covaxin is one of the seven vaccines that have been developed across the nation to find the cure of novel coronavirus which has claimed hundred of thousands lives worldwide.

Manipur: ADGP shoots himself in head.

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Neha Kumari
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A top police officer in Manipur shot himself in the head in his own office.

Additional Director General of Police ( ADGP ) Arvind Kumar shot himself in Imphal office on Saturday. Arvind Kumar suffered skull damage and a brain injury. Arvind is in charge of law and order in the Manipur Police department.

The incident occurred at 1 pm at Manipur Battalion Campus, where Arvind police office is located.

“Surgery was conducted on him and now he is out of danger. He is responding well to treatment”, said a doctor.

Police said that he shot himself under the chin with his service pistol – bullet exited from his left Temple.

Manipur Chief secretary Dr. J Suresh Babu and DGP L.M Khaute visited hospital to met Arvind.

“He is conscious, responding to whatever the doctors are asking him. He is very lucky to be alive with the nature of injury he sustained,” said Babu.

DGP said, “I had a meeting with Arvind Kumar about two days ago and he was perfectly fine. In fact, he is a fine officer”.

“Kumar is a good police officer. He came back to Manipur after his long stint from Intelligence Bureau. It is a very unfortunate incident and we don’t know yet what could be the reason behind it,” he said.

Arvind Kumar is a 1992 batch IPS officer of the Manipur cadre.
Arvind join the state police department few months back. He was on deputation at Intelligence bureau.

Rajasthan: Floor test likely to happen next week, Ashok Gehlot meets governor.

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Neha Kumari
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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot met Kalraj Mishra State Governor on Saturday night. Gehlot submitted a list of MLA’s who are in support of him.

He also raised the possibility of a assembly session next week for the Governor to have a trust vote against Sachin Pilot and 18 other MLA’s.

The meeting lasted around 45 minutes at Raj Bhavan. During the meeting Gehlot is understood to have an assembly session till Wednesday.

All the members are not clear but Gehlot have more possibility to win the trial.

“The assembly session will pave the way for stern action against Pilot and his band of rebel MLAs,” a senior party office-bearer said.

According to Times of India, Parliamentary affairs minister Shanti Dhariwal confirmed to TOI that Gehlot submitted a list of MLAs to the governor and that the figure was well above the majority mark of 101 in the 200-member assembly. Congress has 107 MLAs, 19 of whom constitute the rival Pilot camp.

Dhariwal said, “The CM meeting the governor does not mean it is for an assembly session.”
“If the government clears the trust vote now, the law does not permit another one for six months,” he said.

The support of independent legislators will play a vital role for the Government survival.

Coronavirus update: India records highest single day jump in covid-19 cases, fatality rate decreases

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Shivani Negi
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New Delhi: India, on Sunday, recorded biggest single day spike in covid-19 of 38,092 cases, taking the total caseload to 1,078782, Health Ministry reported.

According to Health Ministry, the fatality rate in the country is “progressively falling” which is currently at 2.49 percent, making it one of the lowest in the world. The ministry credited coherent management of hospitalised cases for it.

“The CFR is progressively falling and currently, it is 2.49 per cent. India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world,” the ministry said.

With 542 deaths on Saturday, India has so far reported 26,816 casualties. While 3,73,379 are active patients currently, as many as 6.7 lakh patients have already recovered.

Maharashtra remains the worst affected state as it crossed the three-lakh mark on Saturday with Mumbai alone reporting over 1 lakh positive cases so far.

A few states including Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Odisha have recorded a surge in coronavirus cases over the past few days. The Union Health Ministry has asked these states to make renewed efforts to curb the transmission of the virus.

According to the worldometer, a total number of 14, 450, 473 covid-19 cases have been reported worldwide. Among these, 8, 634, 808 have recovered while 605, 587 people have lost their lives to the virus.

The coronavirus have affected more than 210 countries across the globe. India remains the third worst effected country by the pandemic, only behind the US and Brazil.

Ram Temple: Prime Minister may attend groundbreaking ceremony.

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Neha Kumari
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Ram Mandir Trust by the direction of Supreme court is about to start construction of temple. The Trust has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of temple.
The ceremony will be in Ayodhya either on August 3 or 5 said spokesperson.

On Saturday the trust first firm formal meeting held in Ayodhya and the members decided a possible date for starting construction work of the temple.

The construction earlier was delayed because of coronavirus pandemic.

On February 5, PM Modi had declared the formation of Lord Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust.

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“We have suggested two auspicious dates — August 3 and 5 — for the prime minister’s visit based on calculations of movements of stars and planets,” Mahant Kamal Nayan Das, the spokesperson of Trust’s president Nritya Gopal Das, was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

Supreme court in November 19 ruled that the disputed land in Ayodhya would be given to government run trust for construction of the temple. While 5 acre suitable plot were allotted to Muslim community.

Kameshwar Chaupal, one of the 15 members of the Trust, said construction will start when the Prime Minister deems it fit after considering the situation in the country, on the border and the pandemic.

“The entire country is of the opinion that it the bhoomi pujan should be done by the Prime Minister,” he said.

“Larsen and Toubro is taking samples of soil from a depth of 60 feet below the ground, and based on the report of the sample and strength of the soil, drawings for the foundation of the temple will be made. Where the load will be less i.e. east, the sample will be taken from a depth of 40 feet,”Champat Rai, general secretary of the Trust said.

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