New Delhi: With an aim to expand the basket of COVID-19 vaccines and enhance the pace of inoculation in India, the Centre said Tuesday it has fast-tracked emergency approval for foreign-produced jabs. However, these COVID-19 vaccines must have similar clearances in other countries. The move...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee sat on a dharna Tuesday in the heart of the city. Mamata Banerjee was protesting against the Election Commission’s (EC) ‘unconstitutional’ decision to ban her from campaigning for 24 hours. In an appeasing...
New Delhi: India’s drug regulator has granted permission for the restricted emergency use of Russian COVID-19 vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ with certain conditions. It means that a third vaccine will be available in India after Covaxin and Covishield. It has been said that Sputnik V has a 91.6 per...
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has barred West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours. The poll body said Monday that Mamata Banerjee cannot campaign in any manner from 8.00pm Monday till 8.00pm April 13. The ECI’s decision comes...
New Delhi: Supreme Court judges would hold court from their residences Monday and the benches would sit one hour late from their schedule time in the morning as around 44 staffers have tested positive for coronavirus, sources said. On some media reports which suggested that...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 1,741 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 3,51,302 with 9,259 active cases. Out of the 1,741 new cases, 1,015 were reported from quarantine centres while 726 contracted the virus locally. Sundargarh registered...
Kendrapara: Much to the shock of the parents, a child with two heads, one torso and three hands was born at a private nursing home in Kendrapara Sunday. Surprisingly enough, one hand of the newborn is dangling from the back. According to a source, family...
New Delhi: India began Sunday the ‘Tika Utsav’, the aim of which is to inoculate as many people as possible. However, amid the ‘Tika Utsav’ there is the fear of a shortage of vaccines. In the inoculation programme that will run for four days, Prime...
New Delhi: India registered another alarming trajectory Sunday with over 11.08 lakh active caseload reported in the last 24 hours--highest ever in the last seven months. Only seven days are short in completion of seven months from September 18 last year when highest ever 10,17,754...
Bhubaneswar: Decisions taken by some bureaucrats such as the former Executive Director and CEO of Odisha Rural Development and Marketing Society (ORMAS) and others seem to have offered safe havens to several ineligible and tainted private firms who looted taxpayers’ money allegedly in connivance with...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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