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A total of 52 ministers, including Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, were sworn in on Friday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had earlier moved the Finance Bill 2022 for consideration and passage. Replying to a debate on the Bill, the Finance Minister said the government has not put any extra burden on the common people in the 2022-23 Union Budget.
During the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, Arvind Kumar Sharma was sent to Uttar Pradesh to manage the relief work in Varanasi, which is also Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Parliamentary constituency. Later, he was appointed vice president of the UP unit of the BJP.
Baby Rani Maurya had contested from the Agra rural Assembly seat in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. She has also been the first woman Mayor of Agra.
At a televised message, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the corridors will link the two cities with Zaporizhzhia, which are situated to the north and is still under the control of Ukraine.
Speaking to reporters while returning from a NATO summit in Brussels, Erdogan said he will speak with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday and with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend "or (during) first days of the next week."
"Unfortunately, we start the day with bad news," Mariupol city council said on its Telegram channel on Friday.
At a joint press conference with President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen, US President Joe Biden said, "Today we've agreed on a joint gameplan toward" reducing European reliance on Russian gas.
In his maiden meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after assuming charge as the Chief Minister of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann ensured the PM of holistic development in the state.
"To save people and our cities, Ukraine needs military assistance without restrictions. In the same way that Russia is using its full arsenal without restrictions against us," he told NATO representatives.