# Sabarmati river

• Gujarat’s Sabarmati river remains highly polluted despite the spending of nearly 200 crore rupees that the centre had allocated to curb pollution in the river from 2014-15 to 2017-18.

• The Gujarat high court has reprimanded the Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC) and the Gujarat pollution control board (GPCB) for the pollution on the Sabarmati riverfront.

• The High court observed that the root cause of pollution in the Sabarmati was the lack of accountability on part of the authorities.

# Second vaccine dose

• Madhya pradesh’s state health department is struggling to motivate people to get their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

• According to the latest data, more than 43 lakh people have not taken the second dose despite reminders.

• One of the biggest reasons why more people are skipping the second dose is primarily because Madhya pradesh is an agricultural state where more than 72% of total working population is engaged in agriculture.

• Currently, harvesting of Kharif crops is underway.

# Edible oil prices

• The centre has urged the states to take suitable action to ensure lower prices for consumers.

• Retail inflation in edible oils and fats stood at 34.2% for september.

# Taliban

• The Taliban government in Afghanistan launched a programme to tackle hunger on Saturday, offering thousands of people wheat in exchange for labour.

• The scheme will be rolled out around Afghanistan’s major towns and cities and employ 40000 men in the capital alone.

# Adani

• Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani group that was chosen to develop a major port terminal in Srilanka, is scheduled to meet president Gotabayta Rajapaksha.

• Mr. Adani’s visit comes less than a month after the Adani group, in a virtual ceremony, signed a build-operate-transfer (BOT) agreement with its Srilankan partner in the project.