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The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has formed a four- member committee to win back the confidence of the Brahmin community in the state. It is understood that the ruling party has taken this step to counter impressions being created by opposition parties in the poll bound State about the Brahmin community being dissatisfied with their […]
Covid Three is Here. The random cases are just a build-up to the massive surge in February 2022, predicted by IIT Kanpur. However, is the Indian government prepared? According to the 2021 Global Health Security (GHS) Index released December 8, countries across income levels, including India, are unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats. […]
Prime Minister Modi announced a third shot of Coronavirus Vaccine for healthcare workers and the senior citizens above the age of 60 in India. While addressing the citizens of the nation he said that the two categories who are at risk would be given a “precautionary” shot – a very unlikely term which has not […]
Launched in October 2020 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bid to boost tourism, the company’s first seaplane service, is all set to take-off again. The 19-seater plane can accommodate 12 and did make some trips before it was suspended after a technical snag last November. The seaplane has been lying in Maldives since […]
Pakistan’s foreign ministry has reacted to the controversial speeches given at the Dharam Sansad, held at Haridwar from December 17 to 19. The Sansad sessions saw a whole series of hate speeches against Muslims. Yati Narsinghanand, the priest of Dasna temple in Ghaziabad in UP, urged the Hindu community to take up weapons against the […]
It is a sad season for paddy farmers this year, with a decrease of 50.4 per cent in the procurement of paddy. In Gujarat, a decrease of 37.86 per cent was reported in the paddy procured for the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2021-22. 443.49 LMT has been procured in KMS till December 26, 2021, in […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of hydropower projects worth over Rs 11,000 crore. Some of the hydropower projects are the Luhri Stage 1 Hydro Power Project and Dhaulasidh Hydro Power Project. Governor Himachal Pradesh, Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur, Union Minister, Shri Anurag […]
Reduction of economic activities during the pandemic-related lockdown had resulted in a decrease in air pollution in most parts of India, but satellite observations show that parts of central-western India and north India showed an increase in pollution in contrast to the general trend. Scientists have identified that regions in the central-western part of India […]
The exercise to prepare the annual budget 2022-23 has begun and now, you can even give your suggestions and ideas to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance is inviting suggestions from citizens to make the Budget-making process participative and inclusive. The Ministry looks forward to your ideas […]
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shared a few clippings of a marathon organised by the party in Jhansi which was attended by thousands of women. This marathon is part of the Congress’ latest campaign, ‘Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon’ (I’m a girl, I can fight), focusing on women and women empowerment in Uttar Pradesh where […]
Indian Naval Ship Kesari entered Port of Maputo, Mozambique yesterday on 25 December, As part of yet another deployment undertaken by the Indian Navy since May 2020 under Mission SAGAR. This is the eighth such deployment which currently is being conducted in close coordination with the Ministry of External Affairs and other agencies of the Government of […]
This year’s Mrs India Earth winner Dr Monika Chawla is an Abu Dhabi based reproductive endocrinologist and a fertility specialist. Chawla has been helping women to achieve motherhood successfully for the last 16 years, she says she wants to direct her energies towards women’s education and empowerment in India. the sixth edition of Mrs India […]
The government has decided to vaccinate children against Covid-19 and a senior epidemiologist at AIIMS, a principal investigator of Covaxin trials for adults and children at the institute has called out the decision ‘unscientific’. Dr Sanjay K Rai, also the president of the Indian Public Health Association, stated that the data from the countries that […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday made a much-awaited announcement on booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, stating that those eligible for the booster would include frontline workers, people with co-morbidities and senior citizens. Booster doses are to be rolled out from January 10. Modi said vaccination for children aged between 15-18 years would begin […]
Rightwing Hindutva groups’ attempts to enter a locality primarily populated by Muslims – against police instructions – as part of their ‘Shourya Yatra’ in Manawar tehsil of Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district developed into a clash with stone pelting from both sides recently. However, police have only arrested Muslims among those accused and inexplicably razed a […]
The notion that “judges are themselves appointing judges” is a myth as the judiciary is just one of the many players involved in the process of selecting judicial officers, Chief Justice of India N V Ramana said on Sunday during a lecture at Vijaywada on Sunday. CJI N V Ramana made it clear that every […]
More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar‘s conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local human rights group. Karenni Human Rights Group said they found the burnt bodies of internally displaced people, including elders, women and children killed by […]
India will begin inoculation of children falling between the age group of 15 and 18 from January 3, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a sudden address to the nation on Saturday. The PM also stated that the healthcare and frontline workers will be provided with booster doses from January 10, 2020. Elderly over […]
The professional training of the 71st Batch of IRS(C&IT) culminated with a Passing Out Parade at National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN), Faridabad. The 71st batch consists of 35 officers, which includes 10 lady officers. Vivek Johri, Chairman, Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) exhorted the officers to always remember […]
If you are in Sirumalai, be careful with words. Using “shooting practice” just landed a man in trouble. The High Court was hearing a petition by a man who had been charged by the Vadipatty Police for posting some photos on Facebook from a trip to the Sirumalai Hills captioned “Trip to Sirumalai for shooting […]
