Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday made a surprise visit to the new Parliament construction site and reviewed various works, reports said.

PM Modi spent more than an hour and inspected the construction along with observing the facilities coming up at both houses of the Parliament. In the viral pictures, PM Modi can also be seen interacting with the workers.

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Narendra Modi was accompanied by Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and inspected the construction site.

Earlier in September 2021, PM Modi visited the construction site and interacted with the construction workers.

The foundation stone of the new Parliament building was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2020. The new building is a part of the Rs 20,000 crore Central Vista project and is a 64,500-square-metre structure.

The new building will have the capacity to house over 1,200 MPs and is earthquake resistant.

In a major accident during Ram Navami celebrations, a temple stepwell roof collapsed at Indore’s Shree Beleshwar Mahadev Jhulelal Temple.

Reports said as many as 13 people have been killed in the temple collapse till now and 19 people have been rescued. The incident happened when an ancient bavdi collapsed during the Ram Navami festival. Rescue operations are underway and police along with the rescue team are putting their best efforts to save people.

In the viral videos, police and locals were seen trying to rescue the devotees trapped in the collapsed stepwell.

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According to reports, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took cognizance of the incident and directed local authorities to speed up the rescue operation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered condolences to the family of the deceased people. On Twitter, PM Modi informed that he spoke to CM Shivraj Chouhan and took an update on the situation. The State Government is spearheading rescue and relief work at a quick pace.

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India logged over 3,000 fresh cases of the coronavirus infection, the highest in almost six months, over the past 24 hours, taking the tally of active cases in the country to 13,509, data updated on the Union Health Ministry’s website revealed on Thursday.

According to the health ministry’s data, 3,016 new cases of the Covid-19 virus were registered in the past 24 hours, the highest since October 2 last year when a total of 3,375 cases were recorded.

As per the data, fourteen more people have succumbed to the deadly virus with eight fatalities being reported from Kerala, three from Maharashtra, two from Delhi and one reported by Himachal Pradesh within a span of 24 hours, taking the overall death toll in India to 5,30,862 since the Covid-19 outbreak.

The data, updated at 8 am on the Union Health Ministry’s website, has pegged the daily at 2.73 percent while the weekly positivity has surged to 1.71 percent.

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According to the ministry’s data, the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country since the pandemic started, stands at 4.47 crore (4,47,12,692) while the number of people who have successfully recovered from the viral infection has surged to 4,41,68,321 with the case fatality rate pegged at 1.19 percent.

The data also reveals that 220.65 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide vaccination drive while over 92 crore Covid detection tests have been conducted since the viral outbreak in 2019.

Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called a review meeting due to the surge in the number of active Covid cases in the national capital and the spike in daily positivity.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said the AAP government closely monitoring the situation and assured Delhiites to not panic as the hospitalization rate was low.

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