Telangana News Live Updates: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to skip NITI Aayog meeting

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will skip the NITI Aayog meeting which will take place on Saturday in the national capital, Bharat Rashtra Samithi's (BRS) sources said.The government's policy think tank NITI Aayog will be organising its Eighth Governing Council Meeting in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, on Saturday.

Moderate to heavy intensity rainfall along with thunderstorm lashed Delhi and its adjoining National Capital Region (NCR) early on Saturday morning.The rainfall brought down the soaring temperature in the cities.

Darjeeling may soon join the list of cities with air pollution levels higher than the national ambient air quality, rendering escape to the hill station from congested Kolkata to breathe fresher air meaningless.A study has revealed that Darjeeling may soon become a non-attainment zone alongside six other cities in Bengal. A non-attainment city is one whose air has failed to fulfil national ambient air quality criteria for at least five years.

A team from Kuno National Park in Sheopur of Madhya Pradesh, tasked with locating a female cheetah, Aasha, which had moved out of the protected area, was attacked early Friday morning by villagers in Burakheda village who mistook them to be cattle thieves.

After intense deliberations among Congress veterans in New Delhi over the past three days, the party leadership on Friday night finalised names of 24 legislators who will be sworn in as ministers on Saturday , taking the total number of Siddaramaiah cabinet to its full sanctioned strength (34) — a first in many years in Karnataka for a newly sworn-in government.