The big news of 19 August 2023, Top 10 headlines 19 August 2023, Breaking news of 19 August 2023
India’s veteran industrialist Ratan Tata has been honoured with the ‘Udyog Ratna’ award. The prestigious award was given personally by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge hit out at the BJP government at the Center over the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report on the UDAN scheme and said that his promise of flying in slippers has gone up in smoke like other promises, as the scheme 93 Doesn’t work on percentage routes.
According to media reports, five militants of the banned outfit National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) surrendered before the state police in Dhalai district after fleeing from their hideouts in Bangladesh.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is on a visit to Ladakh. Some pictures of the Congress leader riding a bike have surfaced on social media. Rahul Gandhi rode his KTM 390 Duke bike from Leh city to the picturesque Pangong Lake today. During this, Rahul Gandhi’s style looked completely different. Rahul Gandhi also posted a post on his social media account.
Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya launched the ‘Global Initiative on Digital Health, GIDH – A WHO Managed Network’ in Gandhinagar in the presence of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization on the concluding day of the G20 Health Ministers’ Meeting.
According to media reports, the Udayan Express caught fire about two hours after reaching the Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna (KSR) train station in Bengaluru.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has accused the central government of doing politics and running election programs on the pretext of the G20 conference. Jairam Ramesh tweeted that ‘G20 was formed in 1999. 19 countries and the European Union are its members. Since its formation till now, G20 summit has been organized in 17 countries alternately and now it is India’s number.
The CPI (ML) has said that layers of corruption have started opening up in the so-called zero-tolerance Yogi government. Sudhakar Yadav, secretary of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit, said in a statement that the multi-crore scholarship scam, the fake bill scam at the state tax headquarters, the government land grab scam in the capital besides the rate card of bribery of Noida police went viral, led to corruption in the Yogi government. There have been fresh cases of Before this, the list of other scams including the Expressway construction scam, and Ayodhya development project scam is different. To cover corruption, the government plays the drum of zero tolerance loudly, while the layers being exposed one after the other are witnesses that the BJP government is neck-deep in corruption.
