India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises on the first day of the budget session, in New Delhi, India, January 29, 2018. [Photo/Agencies] NEW DELHI - Indian police on Sunday detained as many as 24 lawmakers from a regional party for holding a sit-in protest outside the official residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital. The lawmakers of regional Telegu Desam Party (TDP) staged the protest, demanding special status for the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. We have detained the TDP lawmakers for protesting outside the prime minister's residence. However, no cases have been slapped on them. All the lawmakers will be freed later in the day, a senior police official said. TDP last month pulled out of India's ruling coalition led by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and unsuccessfully attempted to bring in a no-confidence motion against the government in the Parliament over the latter's refusal to grant special status to Andhra Pradesh. N. Chandrababu Naidu, the TDP chief and the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, has been furious over the Indian government's refusal to grant the southern state special status as promised after Telangana was carved out of it in 2014. Andhra Pradesh is to go to polls next year and opposition parties are upping the ante against the deprivation. silicone medical alert wristbandsdual layer wristbandrheumatoid arthritis silicone braceletsneon wristbands for eventsprinted wristbands
A new standard related to steel air pollutants and coking chemical materials will go into effect in North China's Hebei province at the beginning of next year, according to Hebei authorities recently.The emission restrictions on coal-made pellet smoking gas will be much more stringent than the current national standard, which also reached the strictest level of the country's standard, the Hebei environmental and quality supervision authorities said on Sept 30.The new emission standard is also the first national coking chemical standard in the country that strengthens the control of coking particles, with the lowest emission restriction at 10 milligrams per cubic meter.Companies in the industries will follow those rules starting Oct 1, 2020, and the newly established firms will follow the regulations since Jan 1, 2019.According to a three-year action plan released by the provincial government at the end of August, steel companies in Hebei province satisfying the standard of renovation will achieve the lowest emission standard by 2020.By October 2020, the coking industry in Hebei will complete advanced treatment to achieve the lowest emission standard.There are 359 steel projects in the province that need to be improved in three years, said Li Hongyan, deputy director of the technology department at the Hebei Provincial Environmental Protection Department.Of these projects, 83 have entered the beginning stage with 171 under construction, Li said.
