She called for help in evacuating people stranded in the southern city occupied by the Russian army.

Erhi Volina, commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, said she had created her twitter account to get her point across to Musk. In the post, Serie Volina wrote, “People say you came from another planet and have come to tell people that what seems impossible can also be found.”

She further added that, “We live in the planet next to each other. It’s hard to stay alive where I live. I appeal to you to help us get out of the Azovstal.”

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Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced that over 200 Afghan refugees landed in Vancouver last night. This marks the largest flight to date of Afghan nationals arriving in BC. Approximately 161 of them will start their new lives in Vancouver, while the other 48 will settle elsewhere in the country, where they have family ties. This brings the total number of Afghan refugees who have arrived in Canada to over 7,000.

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“I invite @elonmusk, Punjab Model will create Ludhiana as hub for Electric Vehicles & Battery industry with time bound single window clearance for investment that brings new technology to Punjab, create green jobs, walking path of environment preservation & sustainable development,” Sidhu wrote on Twitter.

Earlier, Telangana and Maharashtra also invited Elon Musk to set up business in their states.

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According to the Jammu and Kashmir government officials 6,327 tourists had visited Kashmir in November 2020 which is way lesser than the current figure of nearly 1,27,000.

Director, Tourism Kashmir, Dr GN Itoo said that the organised some of the iconic festivals like houseboat festival, the Sufi festival in which the national level celebrities had participated and also literary festival because of which a buzz was created at the national as well as the international level.

He said that it is the first time in the past 7 years, that tourists in such large number have turned up in October and November.

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The development came ten months, it had threatened to pull Search out of Australia and it would be the US technology giant’s largest investment in the country to date.

“Money shall be used to build a research hub, increase its cloud computing capacity and fund partnerships with local organisations,” Google said in a statement.

The move – named the Digital Future Initiative – is expected to directly create 6,000 jobs and support 28,000 overall.

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The hurricane has caused devastation across Louisiana, which made landfall late on Sunday morning at Port Fourchon, exactly 16 years since Hurricane Katrina, the catastrophic hurricane had killed over 1,800 on the Gulf coast in 2005.

According to authorities, this catastrophic hurricane has hit Louisiana as a Category 4 storm with 150 mile-per-hour winds, and torrential downpours.

President Joe Biden has declared the event a major disaster and ordered federal aid to help recovery efforts.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said Ida could be the state’s worst direct hit by a hurricane since the 1850s and promised a swift action to rescue people.

Desperate for rescue, locals posted their addresses and locations, directing rescue teams to their attics or rooftops.

Officials assured to intensify the rescue operation as the weather broke and the sun rose.

The torrential rains mostly moved into Mississippi on Monday as the storm slowly moved north.

Officials have predicted that Ida is likely to move over central and northeastern Mississippi, and move across the Tennessee Valley on Tuesday.

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A railway spokesperson said that on Thursday night it was informed that there was a call by BKU Doaba Unit to sit on a dharma to demand for a hike in MSP of sugar cane and for clearance of dues. Since this morning they have been sitting on the NH near gate S 70 near Dhanowali between Jalandhar- Chaheru section.

He said that a total of 107 trains got affected as of Saturday morning due to the protest causing a nuisance to commuters.

Railways cancelled 50 trains, diverted 18, short term 36 and some others, said railway spokesperson.

Punjab police have also diverted various routes in Jalandhar, Kartarpur and Phagwara as farmers blocked Amritsar-Jalandhar highway.

Doaba Kisan Sangharsh Committee had announced to start an indefinite protest from Friday across Punjab by blocking national highways and railway tracks two days back.

Following this, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday announced a hike of Rs. 15 per quintal in the State Agreed Price (SAP) of all sugarcane varieties for the crushing season, 2021-22.

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The statement came a day after the farmers announced to block highways, railway tracks from August 20 across the state against Punjab government for their pending dues.

Aliwal said that a provision of Rs 300 crore has been made in the budget of 2021-22 by the State Government for complete payment.

The nine cooperative sugar mills in the State have already released a sum of Rs. 486.24 crore for the year 2019-20 while during the year 2020-21, a sum of Rs. 417.33 crore out of Rs. 472.10 crore has been paid. The Finance Department has sanctioned the release of Rs. 54 crore out of the balance Rs. 54.77 crore which would be paid by the first week of September to the cane growers, he said.

Aliwal said that owing to the Union Government still withholding the export subsidy and buffer stock subsidy to the tune of Rs. 9.77 crore of the cooperative sugar mills pertaining to the year 2019-20. This explains why the concerned department is being approached and the amount is hoped to be released soon.

“The balance amount of Rs. 9.77 crore will also be credited directly into the accounts of the cane growers after the release. He also said that it would be the first time in the past many years that the due payment of the previous crushing season would be made by the first week of September,” he said.

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Subsidised LPG now costs Rs 859 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi, according to a price notification of oil companies as rates were hiked by Rs 25.50 per cylinder on July 1.

Non-subsidised LPG rates were increased on August 1 by the same proportion, and now the subsidised cooking gas prices have been raised.

Meanwhille, there is hardly any difference in the rate of subsidised and non-subsidised cooking gas.

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Rajni’s husband and sole breadwinner of the house died around two months back. She is now looking after her 8-year-old daughter and in-laws.

She is a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree holder, however, unable to get any job, she decided to run her food business but due to paucity of funds, she chooses to sell ‘Rajma Chawal’ on a stall.

“After my husband’s death, there is no one to feed our family as my elderly father-in-law is also unable to work due to health issues. Following this, I decided to work to earn some money despite being pregnant,” said Rajni.

She appealed to local NGOs and social workers to extend a helping hand to her family in this grieving time.

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