India

28 Jun

Maharashtra strengthens COVID-19 restrictions in response to ‘Delta Plus’ variant concerns, signalling the start of the third wave

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The state of Maharashtra has strengthened restrictions with effect from Monday, amid worries of a third wave of coronavirus and cases of its highly virulent 'Delta Plus' form emerging. The new decision will have an impact on places such as Nagpur, Thane, and Pune, that have seen more relaxations than Mumbai, and remains under 'level 3' limitations despite qualifying for 'level 1', it allows all curbs to be withdrawn. The Maharashtra government had announced a'state-level trigger' for placing limits in administrative units regardless of the weekly positive rate or oxygen bed occupancy percentage earlier on Friday. The Maharashtra government implemented…

28 Jun

Major portions of 10 Lakshadweep islands might go under water in next 30 years

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A study conducted by ocean engineering scientists at IIT Kharagpur shows that 10 islands among the 36 islands of Lakshadweep archipelago might have more than 60 percent land loss in the next 30 years because of the continuous and extreme rise of seawater level in the last 15 years. “The main problem in conducting the study was that there was neither any ‘Tide-Gauge’ or eWater level monitoring system’ in Lakshadweep and so we had to depend on the satellite data which was only available from 1993. We also used two best-performing climate models – the GFDL Model of USA and…

27 Jun

Had never imagined ordinary boy like me will reach country’s highest office: President Kovind in his village

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President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday visited his native village Paraunkh and in a rare and emotional gesture, bowed and touched the ground to pay obeisance to the land of his birth. While addressing a Jan Abhinandan Samaroh in his village, the President remembered his background and said that Paraunkh was not just a village, but was his motherland, from where he drew inspiration. "I had never imagined even in my dreams that an ordinary boy like me from the village would get the privilege of discharging the responsibilities of the highest office of the country. But our democratic system…

27 Jun

Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao to Hold an All-party Meeting on Dalit Empowerment scheme on June 27

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Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar will hold a meeting with all-party leaders to prepare guidelines for the CM Dalit Empowerment Scheme at Pragati Bhavan on Sunday. The Chief Minister invited all Dalit public representatives, Dalit MPs, MLAs and MLCs to participate in the meeting which is likely to last about three hours. The Chief Minister contacted CPM and CPI party's state secretaries Chada Venkat Reddy, Tammineni Veerabhadram over the phone requesting to send their senior Dalit leaders to the meeting. Opposition parties, including Congress and BJP floor leaders and AIMIM, would participate in the meeting. KCR asked Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar,…

27 Jun

RJD to celebrate Ram Vilas Paswan’s birth anniversary; experts call it political move to ‘woo’ Chirag

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Amid signs of chill in LJP leader Chirag Paswan's ties with the BJP-led NDA, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday reached out to him for aligning with the Opposition, saying he can carry forward his father Ram Vilas Paswan''s legacy only by joining the "existential fight" against RSS ideologue M S Golwalkar's thoughts. Experts believe, RJD's decision to celebrate the birth anniversary of LJP founder and former union minister (late) Ram Vilas Paswan on the same day as RJD's foundation day, July 5, can have a far fetched impact on Bihar's politics. RJD's decision has assumed more political significane now…

26 Jun

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday wrote an open letter to Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan demanding an investigation into Kolkata vaccine scam

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BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday wrote an open letter to Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan seeks an investigation into Kolkata vaccine scam.In the letter, Adhikari charged that the Kolkata vaccine fraud would not have taken place without the knowledge of local police and authorities. He wrote the major question is were this shots really the covishiled?If these not then we should take immidiate action against this. The main person behind this case was earlier arrested for allegedly posing as an IAS officer and organised a COVID-19 vaccination camp in the city's Kasba area, where the actor Mimi Chakroborty…

26 Jun

Kerala Women’s Commission Chief Quits After Row Over Her Controversial Comment

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Kerala Women’s Commission chairperson MC Josephine resigned from her post Friday following controversial remarks she made to a woman complainant on harassment. As per local reports, the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) directed Josephine’s resignation after a secretariat meeting was convened in Thiruvananthapuram. Following a line of consecutive deaths in the state alleged to be over dowry harassment, CPM is looking at reformative change in assistance for survivors. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a strong statement June 23 called for the urgent need to stop looking at women as “commodities.” Josephine, a central committee member of the ruling CPI(M),…

25 Jun

Empty Syringe Used To Vaccinate Man in Bihar caught on camera

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In the state of Bihar a man was injected with an "empty" syringe at a Covid vaccination centre . After this incident a video went viral on social media. The video - which was shot on a mobile - shows that the nurse taking out a new syringe and straightaway inoculating the man without drawing the vaccine from the vial.After that the nurse who was administrated the injection got fired . The man who got the vaccine he said that he realised what happend after geeting the vaccination only hoirs later. While he took another jab, the man refused saying…

25 Jun

INS Vikrant To Be Commissioned Next Year

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Indian Navy to get first ‘made in India’ aircraft, INS Vikrant next year. INS Vikrant will be commissioned to the Indian Navy after its final trial. In a statement at the southern naval command in Kochi today, Rajnath Singh described it as "India's pride and a shining example of Atmanirbhar Bharat" and "Commissioning of this IAC next year would be a befitting tribute to the 75th year of India's independence" INS Vikrant is 262 meters long and 62 meters wide and displaces about 40,000 metric tons. It features a STOBAR configuration with a ski jump. The carrier has been designed by the Directorate of Naval Design…

24 Jun

AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria on talking about Covid vaccine for children likely by September-October

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AIIMS Director, Dr Randeep Guleria said that we are hoping that by October India will have its own vaccine for children. It has been found that kids usually have mild symptoms of coronavirus. Guleria said that we are hopeful vaccine trial will be completed early and we will get the data by september. Hopefully, by that time, approvals will be there so that by September-October we'll have vaccines from our country. Bharat Biotech & other companies are doing trials at a very fast pace as parents have come forward with their children,while Pfizer has already got the FDA approval for…