Noida

Actress Nimrat Kaur on Wednesday expressed her concern about stray cats disappearing near her Noida home, where her parents live.

Tikait, who has participated in the multiple rounds of dialogues between farmers unions and the government representatives in Delhi over the past 54 days, was in Noida where he addressed protestors belonging to the BKU's faction Lok Shakti.

The Eastern Peripheral Expressway also known as the Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal Expressway is a 135-km-long six-lane road stretch connecting Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. It passes through Gautam Buddh Nagar

There were a total of 5,81,980 COVID-19 cases in UP, while the number of active cases stood at 15,371 of which 3,134 (20.38 per cent) were in its NCR districts.

Presence of pollutant PM 2.5 and PM 10 also remained high in the five immediate neighbours of Delhi, according to the air quality index (AQI) maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

On Thursday, 178 people were randomly tested at Ashok Nagar and at the Botanical Garden Metro Station, while 165 tests were done on Wednesday at the DND and the Chilla borders in Noida, according to officials.

The action included major penalties worth Rs 50,000 on a coal depot and two entities that had kept construction material uncovered, the authority said.

Bollywood singer Udit Narayan dedicated a song to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday during a meeting with some celebrities over a proposed film city in Uttar Pradesh.

On Sunday, a maximum number of the positive cases were reported from the state capital Lucknow- 877, while six people from the district succumbed to the infection.

Among other measures, the NCDC has also recommended sero-surveys in neighbouring cities, like Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurugram and Sonepat after assessing the epidemiological trends for exposure.

The agreement was signed by Noida Authority General Manager Rajeev Tyagi and BPCL's Executive Director Sanjay Bhargava, it stated. The project would be funded by the BPCL, it added.

Fire tenders were on the spot and fire fighting was underway, an official from the local Knowledge Park police station said..

The virtual launch event will be attended by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and the chief ministers of Maharashtra, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh - Uddhav Thackeray, Mamata Banerjee and Yogi Adityanath respectively.

The district has recorded 127 new cases since Friday, while 97 patients were discharged during the 24-hour period, according to the UP Health Department data.

The 68-year-old man had to shuttle between three hospitals to give his sample for a COVID-19 test and died a few hours later after returning home.

The boy lived with his parents in a JJ cluster in Greater Noida's Kasna area and the family belonged to Chhatarpur district in Madhya Pradesh, they police said.