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News Dabba for 17 September 2024: Five stories for a balanced news diet
Here are the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites.
Indie Journal brings you the daily updates that the internet is talking about through various news websites. Here's a glance through some of the National and International news updates, from Atishi chosen as Delhi's new CM, Typhon Yagi's aftermath in Myanmar, to Amit Shah's statement on census.
Census will be conducted soon: Hindustan Times on Amit Shah's statement
Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the decadal census exercise will be conducted soon adding that the details regarding it will be made public after the census is announced. Hindustan Times reports that The home minister’s remarks came during a press conference to mark 100 days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s third term at the Centre. “Census will be conducted soon,” Shah said at the National Media Centre. Read the full report here.
Indian Express Live Updates on Delhi CM announcement: Kejriwal picks Atishi
In their legislative meeting on Tuesday, Indian Express reports that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs elected Atishi as their leader. This effectively means she will become the new Chief Minister of Delhi. The report adds that Atishi is expected to take the oath of office at around 4:30 pm today, following Arvind Kejriwal’s resignation to the Delhi Lieutenant Governor. Atishi holds the highest number of portfolios including Education, Finance, Revenue, Law. Read the full report here.
Al Jazeera: Putin orders third increase in Russian troop numbers since war
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country’s military to increase its troop numbers by 1,80,000 to a total of 1.5 million active servicemen, Al Jazeera reports. This would make Russia’s army the second largest in the world after China. The decree, published on the official government website, the report adds, will take effect on December 1. It says the overall size of the armed forces is to be increased to 2.38 million people. The decree marks the third time Putin has expanded the army’s ranks since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Read the full report here.
Mamata Banerjee agrees to doctors' demands, India Today
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced that Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Goyal will be removed from his post, India Today reports. She made the decision following a six-hour-long meeting with doctors protesting the rape and death of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in Kolkata, the report adds. The Deputy Commissioner of Kolkata Police (North), against whom the victim’s family has levelled allegations of bribery, will also be removed, the Chief Minister said. Read the full report here.
Floods and mudslides kill more than 200 in Myanmar, BBC reports
The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the BBC reports as per the military government. The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in early September and has killed more than 500 people across the region so far, according to official figures. It triggered severe floods and mudslides in Myanmar, leaving at least 226 dead as whole villages were wrecked. With hundreds of thousands of acres of crops destroyed, the report adds that the UN also warned that more than half a million people in the war-torn country are in urgent need of food as well as drinking water, shelter and clothes. Read the full report here.
