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Varanasi flyover collapse: Yogi says preliminary action taken; top updates

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At least 15 people were killed as a portion of a flyover being built by a state-run corporation collapsed on busy road in Varanasi on Tuesday; catch all the live updates here Preliminary action had been taken against erring authorities responsible for the Varanasi flyover collapse that killed at least 15 people and critically injured 11 on Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister  Yogi Adityanath  said this morning. Two pillars of an under-construction flyover in Varanasi's Cantt area had collapsed the previous day, bringing down a huge slab, which crushed a mini-bus, cars and two-wheelers. Several people got crushed or trapped under the debris in the incident, which took place during peak traffic hours on Tuesday evening. Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar said that around 7 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams of over 325 personnel had been deployed for relief operations at the site of Varanasi under-construction flyover collapse incident. Former UP ...

Mysuru is the cleanest city; Varanasi, Patna in bottom-10 list

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Mysuru  has maintained its position as the cleanest city in India, while others in the top-10 list are Chandigarh, Tiruchirapalli, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Vishakapatnam, Surat, Rajkot, Gangtok, Pimpri-Chindwad and Greater Mumbai in that order, a latest government survey conducted  by the  Quality Council of India  has found. Varanasi, which was the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been ranked among the least clean cities in India, at 65th position. ALSO READ:  Why official Swachh Bharat data appear inflated Besides Varanasi, others in the bottom-10 list this year include Kalyan-Dombivali, Jamshedpur, Ghaziabad, Raipur, Meerut, Patna, Itanagar, Asansol and Dhanbad, which is the lowest at 73rd position. Meerut is the only one to have figured in both the 2014 and 2016 list of bottom 10. In 2014, others in the bottom list were Nagpur, Cuttack, Kota, Gwalior, Gurgaon, Amritsar, Allahabad, Dehradun and Faridaba...