Nepal PM To Visit India On April 1, To Visit Varanasi During 3-Day Trip: Report

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Meanwhile, UP CM Yogi Adityanath will hold his first cabinet meeting at 10 am tomorrow, March 26, in Lok Bhawan, Lucknow, after which he will attend the swearing-in ceremony of the protem Speaker in Raj Bhawan at 11 am.

The Chief Minister will also address Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and top officials at 11:30 am in Yojana Bhawan, Lucknow.

The Yogi Adityanath government, which began its second term on Friday, will focus on youth, education, health, women, employment generation and infrastructural development.

A team of forensic experts led by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) reached Rampurhat in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Friday to collect samples following the order of the Calcutta High Court.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur will visit Dubai for three days starting March 26 to attend a round-table with leading cinema and television personalities.

He will also visit the India Pavilion at the Dubai Expo, where the Media and Entertainment Week is going on, to participate in the event ‘Celebrating and Taking Indian Media and Entertainment Industry Global’. He will be joined by Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said that unlike several developed nations, the Modi government did not raise taxes to fund the recovery of the COVID-hit economy and focussed on raising public expenditure on infrastructure as it has a multiplier effect.

The Lok Sabha, later, approved the Finance Bill 2022 giving effect to the taxation proposals and completing the Budgetary exercise for 2022-23 fiscal by the lower house.

In a virtual address to the European Council summit in Brussels, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the military alliance is “yet to show what it can do to save people” in the wake of Russia’s continued war on Kyiv.

Meanwhile, the  deputy head of Russia’s military general staff says that 1,351 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine. NATO estimated on Wednesday that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine.