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By EXAM JOB EXPERT Published: September 28, 2024
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Family Health and Fitness Day
Family Health and Fitness Day began in 1996 when it was founded by the Health Information Resource Center with the purpose of promoting involvement from the whole family in physical activity, exercise and fitness. Another version of this event is celebrated on the second Saturday in June and is sponsored by the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA). But no matter when it is celebrated (why not do both?), this is an important event to promote happy, healthy and strong families.
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SC raps air quality panel over pollution in capital
- The Supreme Court on Friday questioned the effectiveness of the Commission for Air Quality Management’s (CAQM) interventions to curb pollution, saying that its directions only have a temporary impact on violators.
- “Like pollution, your directions are in the air,” Justice A.S. Oka, accompanied by Justice Augustine George Masih on the Bench, orally observed.
- Pollution hearings are gathering steam in the top court, with sightings of stubble-burning reported in the areas neighbouring Delhi, along with the approaching winter season.
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DUSU elections: students cast their ballot; votes likely to be counted after October 21
- Voting for the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections was held on Friday amid heavy security. Students said infrastructure issues, women’s safety, and affordable transportation weighed on their minds while casting their ballots.
- However, the counting of votes, which has been halted by the Delhi High Court, is likely to happen only after October 21.
- The court had a day earlier while hearing a plea seeking action against DUSU candidates and student outfits involved in defacing public walls, said, “No counting of votes shall take place… till this court is satisfied that posters, hoardings, graffiti, spray paints are removed and public property is restored.”
HC seeks ‘missing’ file by ex-PM declaring Jama Masjid not a protected monument
- The Delhi High Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the failure of authorities to produce before it a file containing the decision of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the historic Mughal-era mosque in the Capital — Jama Masjid — should not be declared a protected monument.
- A Bench headed by Justice Prathiba M. Singh observed that in spite of an earlier order, “loose sheets” and other documents were submitted to it instead of the record pertaining to the mosque’s status as a monument, its current occupants, etc.
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Up to PM to make our happy meeting a useful one: Stalin
- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday was a happy one, and it was “in the hands of the Prime Minister to make the happy meeting a useful one”.
- Addressing the media at Tamil Nadu House after the meeting, he said he had highlighted three demands in a memorandum to the Prime Minister.
- When asked whether there had been any change in the Prime Minister’s approach since their last meeting, Mr. Stalin said, “He met me as the Prime Minister, and I met him as the Chief Minister. That is it.”
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Two killed, 2 injured as wall near Ujjain temple collapses
- Two people died and two more, including a child, were injured when the boundary wall of a government school-turned-heritage hotel near the Mahakaleshwar Temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain collapsed on Friday evening following incessant rain.
- Ujjain Collector Neeraj Kumar Singh told The Hindu that the deceased, a man and a woman, were street vendors who sold flowers and other items outside the temple. “A three-year-old girl and a woman are undergoing treatment,” he said.
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