alone. Welcome Watching NDTV am Gardi route a top storey general whip in Rawat, India's first chief of defence staff who was killed asked in a helicopter crash. Vaccine makers a. Krishna Ella So Chitra Allah Cyrus Puna Walla Opposition politician gal um Nabi Azad and Buh Today Bhattacharjee have been named for the country's top civilian award. General route has been honoured with India second highest civilian award The Padma Bhushan along with former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh. Let go cross to Sunil Prabhu now for more and Sunil will speak about this list. But the news coming in that Buddha debe Bhattacharjee has rejected this award. That's right, Guard G. It's very rare and usually these controversies are, you know, rejected or voided at most occasions, especially in the case of Mr Buddha Bhattacharya, because they don't announce the awards unless everybody is accepted. A. But we have just got a statement from somebody. Bhattacharya, where his very categorically said that he is not aware of the fact about the Padma Bhushan and that he rejects that award. Having said that, I checked with the Union Home Ministry who had conveyed that this morning they did convey to his wife the decision of the government and she accepted it and thanked on on the telephone the Union Home Ministry when that decision was conveyed of the government to go ahead and give the Padma Bhushan to Mr Buddha Bhattacharya. But as I said the case where we have seen some blooming awarded and then rejecting and refusing to take the award. All right, er, Sunil and also a general a beep in Rawat, given as the highest second high civilian Nour posthumously. That's right, It's been Robert, along with Kalyan Singh, the former the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, as well as former governor of Rajasthan, have been given the Vibe Bhushan, the country's second highest civilian awards. Of course, the General Robert, as you're well aware, died in a helicopter crash and in that context for the role that he played as India's first chief of defence staff and the critical role he played for the armed forces that the government decided, give him the highest civil war, our rights and then thanks so much for joining us with those details onto a up election news in just ahead of the first phase of elections are jolt for the Congress or one of its prominent leaders from the state. R p n sync with the party and announces switch to the BJP today. He is likely to contest the polls from his stronghold, Koshien. A gar from where he has been elected MLA thrice in an MP once in 2009. It's speculated he may face off with Sang Swami Prasad Maury, another a BK leader who recently switched from the BJP to the Samajwadi Party. Now the Congress, in its first response, has said that cowards couldn't be part of their fight. 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C, who crossed over from the BJP to Akhilesh Yadav Samajwadi Party recently. The Moria candidature is yet to be announced. Mr Singh has a vast experience in electoral politics. He was a three term MLA and also won the 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Eastern Ups coup Sheena Gar on a Congress ticket, defeating his long time rival Swami Prasad Maria, who was contesting on a BSP ticket. 2009 was also Mr Singh's last electoral victory. Soon after tweeting this resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi on Twitter, R. P n. Singh tweeted on a new beginning under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President J. P. Nada and Home Minister Amit Shah. But none of these three leaders were on state during Mr Singh's joining the party's state top leadership except Chief Minister Yogi Are they are not was present for a pointing to a role for misplacing in the upcoming U P Assembly elections. For the Congress rpm things leaving is being seen as another jolt before the crucial state election all the last week, Priyanka Gandhi Valera said she made no effort to retain those who wanted to leave. I didn't feel the need to stop them because they resulted. The kind of battle you're fighting is it's a very tough and rough battle. But it's not just the three ex ministers. There are also leaders like Ribery Lee, MLA Oddity sing and the Congress has faced for its women centric campaign in up Priyanka Maria, who have left question is, Will the new defections help the BJP counter the high profile defections they recently suffered with Arvind Gonna? Shekhar sank eight Upadhyay and cameraperson Minute Verma, this is Ah Lok Pandey, NDTV Swami Prasad Morea in an interview to NDTV, a questioned R P N status as an object leader since that's being touted now. He claimed that he is Raja for Drawn A and is someone who's been born in a palace that he is not a leader who can fight for O B. 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Hard job Kamal Hard job Kamal has now joined the BJP and is considered to be the BJP's and likely candidate from Malaga for the Battle of Yoga. The congress appears to be relying on Sonia suits stardom, while Aam Aadmi party is relying on Arvind Kejriwal work and popularity of its chief minister candidate Mag Want man with Ashwini Mera and Sharma Sharma from Yoga Oussama Shop for NDTV, look at the cove it situation in the country and health minister Months of Manda Via met with states and union territories today, including a state heading for elections. He flagged three big concerns. The decline in quality testing data emerging from the state and how covert emergency funds were being used. The health minister held a meeting today with nine states and union territories, including three poll bound states Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab. The minister flagged three key concerns. The falling proportion of the gold standard rt PCR test slow use of cove ID emergency funds by states and the need for sweets to share data such as bed availability, occupancy and oxygen use in a timely manner with the centre to ensure the government decisions are data informed. Ladakh talked the testing rates for all states and attendance at 2.1 lakh test for one lakh population. Deli was next at 1.7. Lock test for one lakh population. Jammu and Kashmir at 1.6 lakh. Himachal Pradesh at 82.6000. Chandigarh at 82.6000. Uttarakhand that 81.6000 Punjab at 58.8000. Haryana at 54.5000. Uttar Pradesh at 43.6000. Iight experts that the government consults say that they're modelling shows that the third wave could start to decline by this month end or early February. Kay Kay, this will have a yacht. Oh, call Mr Pithy Waj. Call me Maggie. Our victim's service. Daily cases they can't Saladin lock yous first. Got a question. Vicente Craig ahead A. While India's overall cases are likely to fall in the coming days, According to them, some states will take some time to reach their peak. These include Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. At the same time, cases in Delhi, Mumbai and Bihar have already reached their peak and begun to fall. Different waves are driven by different variants of the Corona virus. The only Tran wave maybe ending. But what we know so far is that there will be more variants and we cannot be caught off with animal. Kumar Pandey for NDTV, the latest growth forecast of for India has said that comic run is likely to hit India's growth this year and the in India's GDP likely to grow at 9% are both in the current year and the next year. In fact, for this it's a downgrade of the forecast by 90.5% to 9% are where is for the next day. It's an upgrade of the growth forecast by 0.5% to 9%. Sampras is slipping to a short break coming up On the other side, Mumbai is shivering in a very unseasonal e cold weather. Also, high air pollution Welcome back Mumbai face in unusually cold day today is a light rain in chilly wind swept through the city. The minimum temperature dropped to 13.4 degrees Celsius in the morning and it wasn't just the cold. There was also severe air pollution caused by dust storm from the Gulf region. Saurav Gupta reports at around 13 degrees Mumbai felt unusually cold this morning and saw a record levels of air pollution. The cold led to several means and jokes on social media. Congress leader Melinda or a said Mumbai was socially this morning that he stepped out wearing a fully button woollen. Mandy. It's been the coldest I feel in the last. Repairs were also carrying hoodies to our It's quite exciting, um, also going cycling at night. Such the best time recycle in Bombay right now. Mumbai's temperatures have fallen to as lowest 10 degrees in the last decade, and the temperatures have dropped to around 13 degrees for the last few days because for Western disturbance, it hopes from west to east that's where it is college, it origin. It's in the west and moves graduate was the east. And if the Western disturbances very strong, then Indian deep draught, then in Gujarat, northern part of Gujarat, uneven, our northern part of Maharashtra gets this kind of cloudy weather. Megawati for Mumbai was the sharp fall in air quality. Over the last 48 hours, the air quality index jumped over 500 which is categorised as Syria. Severe air quality can have respiratory impact even on healthy people and serious health impacts on people with lung and heart disease. The air quality dropped due to a dust storm which originated in the Gulf region and travelled over Afghanistan and unusually intensified and impacted Mumbai after crossing the Arabian Sea. The cold conditions made it worse on 24 2, which has entered in Mumbai and polluted all the air all around from Pune up to Ahmedabad. The maximum impact one time three point in Arabian Sea near Mumbai and want to see them now the conditions are going to be recovering. Such a strong normally does not persist for a long time, dusty outside with the the the air quality has improved considerably over the day and the situation is expected to return to normal by tomorrow. But the fact that a just on that started in the Gulf and travelled all the way from there can cause such pollution in Mumbai is something that has left Citizen shopped in on camera person Ashok Methodic, Saurabh Gupta, NDTV
