Morning Digest | MGNREGA scheme affected by lack of funds; Important by-elections in 11 states today, and more

The Centre’s flagship rural employment scheme is just halfway through the fiscal year, and supplementary budgetary allocations will not come to the rescue for at least a month when the next parliamentary session begins.

By-elections will be held for three Lok Sabha and 29 assembly seats in 11 states on October 30, which will have an impact on the politics of each of these states.

Prime minister Narendra Modi On Friday, October 29, 2021, he held his first personal meeting with his Italian counterpart Mario Draghi on the sidelines of the G20 summit here, during which the two leaders held wide-ranging talks on diversifying bilateral ties.

Puneeth Rajkumar, the Kannada film actor who died on Friday sending shock waves across the state, was on screen for most of his life as he made his debut at the age of six months. He had an emotional connect with the audience which was rare in a star-driven industry.

Following the arrest of superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son in a drug-related case, charges of professional and personal impropriety have been leveled against the officer leading the investigation, Sameer Wankhede. Alok Deshpande reports on the events of the past three weeks that have turned into a political slugfest.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on Thursday, the number of agricultural laborers who died by suicide in 2020 was 18% higher than the previous year. However, there was a slight decline in the suicides of landlord farmers during the year of the pandemic.

In an open and widespread violation of civil service rules in PF offices across the country, officers entrusted with safeguarding the retirement corpus of employees worth lakhs of crores of rupees have instead been found working for the interests of private employers.

The Delhi High Court on Friday asked Twitter to remove some objectionable tweets related to the Hindu goddess from its platform, observing that the social media giant should respect the sentiments of the general public as it was doing business for them.

The Registrar General of India (RGI) under the Union Home Ministry pulled down a document with the latest look of National Population Register (NPR) from its website.

Pakistan defeated Afghanistan by five wickets in a Group 2 Super 12 match of the ICC T20 World Cup here on Friday.

The Assam government has set January 15 as the deadline to complete the COVID-19 vaccination of all eligible population estimated at 2.1 crore.

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