News updates: Tomato rates surge to Rs 90 per kg in Delhi markets as supplies hit due to rains

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Tomato prices in the city markets surged to Rs 90 per kg as supplies have taken a hit due to monsoon rains lashing many states across the country, several vegetable vendors said on Tuesday.

The rates of tomatoes have also gone up in the major wholesale vegetable markets of Delhi, including Azadpur Mandi, Ghazipur Mandi, and Okhla Sabzi Mandi.

Several residents in the city expressed disappointment over the rising prices of tomatoes in their local markets and online retailing platforms.

“Just a few days back, we bought tomatoes for Rs 28 kg but now it is selling for Rs 90 kg online and in the local market. Vegetables have become costlier,” said a local of Laxmi Nagar locality.

The Congress-led UDF opposition on Tuesday staged a walkout in the Kerala Assembly alleging that the government has failed to address the concerns of farmers who have faced crop losses, and to provide them with timely financial assistance.

 

Despite the farmers suffering a loss of about Rs 1,000 crore due to climate change-induced heat waves and subsequent extreme rainfall, the Left government in the state is yet to announce a comprehensive financial package for them, they said.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday said that “planned deadlocks” or shouting of slogans in legislatures can not solve the people’s problems, and dialogue between Opposition and ruling parties is the need of the hour.

 

Birla was interacting with local public representatives at an event at the Indore Municipal Corporation.

 

“I want the House of the Indore corporation to become a model for other municipalities, municipal councils and panchayats with high-quality dialogues and innovations, as planned deadlocks or coming near the podium of a House and shouting slogans will not solve the problems of the people,” he said.

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The Assam government will fill 35,000 vacancies by April next year, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday.

 

These include vacancies in the police force, grade 3 and grade 4 of the state government as well as teachers, he said.

 

“We are all set to fill 35,000 Govt vacancies by April’ 25 in a transparent manner,” Sarma said on X.

Lauding India pacer Mohammed Siraj for bringing laurels to the country and the state, Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday announced a residential plot and a government job to the cricketer as a reward.

 

Siraj, who returned to his home town Hyderabad last week after India’s T20 World Cup victory, paid a courtesy call to the Chief Minister here.

The CM felicitated Siraj and praised him for his excellent performance in international cricket, an official release said.

 

He directed the officials to identify a suitable residential plot in Hyderabad or surrounding areas and provide a government job to Siraj, the release added.