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12/04/2021

The government on Monday approved Sputnik-V, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, developed by Russia's Gamaleya national center of epidemiology and microbiology. This is the third vaccine approved by India after Covishield and Covaxin.

12/01/2021

The three new farm laws at the heart of massive farmer protests near Delhi will not be implemented for now. In a huge blow to the government, the Supreme Court today put on hold the laws enacted in September. The top court also said a committee of agricultural experts would be formed to take over negotiations with farmers to end the crisis.
"We are staying three farm laws until further orders," Chief Justice SA Bobde said.

31/12/2020

Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has announced the dates of CBSE Classes 10, 12 board examination. The CBSE exam will be conducted from May 4 to June 10. The CBSE result will be announced by July 15. "We will try to get them evaluated in time and declare the result by July 15," Mr Pokhriyal said. Earlier, Mr Pokhriyal had ruled out the possibility of conducting the exams online due to poor network connectivity in remote areas.

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28/12/2020

Several resources were wasted for the foundation ceremony of Devnarayan temple in Rajasthan. The temple is to be constructed in Ratlai region of Jhalawar district. The ceremony was held on Saturday, by members of the Gurjar community.
As much as 11,000 litres of milk, desi ghee and curd was poured into the foundation pit of the temple. The milk, ghee and curd were poured by members of the Gurjar community as "a mark of reverence for deity Lord Devnarayan".

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16/11/2020

Washington: US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was 94.5 percent effective, marking a second major breakthrough in the vaccine hunt.
Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their vaccine was 90 percent effective.

Both vaccine frontrunners are based on a new platform called messenger RNA, which is faster to produce than traditional vaccines and effectively turn human cells into vaccine factories.

14/11/2020

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11/11/2020

The government had earlier allowed airlines to operate at 60 percent of the pre-COVID capacity up till February 2021. The latest relaxation comes as a good for domestic airlines such as Spicejet and Indigo.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has decided to allow domestic airlines to operate up to 70 percent of domestic flights seen in pre-COVID levels as demand for air travel surges during the festival season. Theministry had introduced the earlier cap of 60 percent on September 2.
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07/11/2020

CBS News projects Joe Biden has secured enough electoral votes to become the 46th president of the United States, defeating President Trump and capturing the White House after a bitter campaign that exposed deep divides in the country.

The president-elect's victory in Pennsylvania marks the third Rust Belt state that President Trump won in 2016 which in turn supported Biden in 2020, along with Michigan and Ohio. Biden is also leading in Nevada, Arizona and Georgia, which Mr. Trump won in 2016.

05/11/2020

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday released guidelines advising higher education institutions, outside containment zones, to reopen in phases, starting first with research, masters and final-year undergraduate students. However, the number of students attending classes on campus, at a given time, should not be more than half the total student strength, the guidelines state.


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04/11/2020

Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and two others sent were to 14-day judicial custody in 2018 su***de abetment case by a Mumbai court late Wednesday night. Senior counsel and Arnab Goswami’s lawyer Abad Ponda, said that they have moved a bail application, which is likely to be heard on Thursday.

04/11/2020

13/10/2020

The iPhone 12 series will be sold in India from 30 October onwards and will start at ₹69,900. The devices will be available in 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB storage variants. While the iPhone 12 will start at ₹76,900, the 12 Mini will be sold at a starting price of ₹69,900.
On the other hand, the iPhone 12 Pro will cost ₹1,19,900 for the base 64GB variant, while the 12 Pro Max starts at ₹1,29,900 in India. These two devices will also be sold from October 30 onwards.
The company is also including a year-long subscription to its Apple TV+ streaming service and three months of Apple Arcade free with new purchases. The devices will not ship with chargers in the box, as part of Apple’s drive to be more environment friendly. The company introduced new MagSafe accessories, which uses its proprietary magnetic pin technologies for charging. These will be sold separately from November 6 onwards.
Apple recently introduced its first online retail store in India, allowing the company to sell its extended warranty service, AppleCare+, in the country as well.

13/10/2020

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba M***i is being finally released from her detention after more than a year by the J&K government
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13/10/2020

PDP President and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba M***i is being released from detention Tuesday, J-K Administration Spokesperson Rohit Kansal told ANI.
M***i’s release comes two weeks after the Supreme Court asked the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administration if former Chief Minister’s detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) can be extended beyond a year and, if so, “how long do you propose to extend it”. The bench had fixed the next date of hearing on Thursday (October 15)

04/10/2020

Saudi Arabia reopened the holy places for the year-round Umrah pilgrimage on Sunday, scaled back and with extensive health precautions, seven months after coronavirus prompted its suspension. The Umrah, the pilgrimage that can be undertaken at any time, usually attracts millions of Muslims from across the globe each year.

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02/10/2020

Tesla's entry could come at a time when Modi govt has increasingly been focusing on promoting the use and manufacture of electric vehicles
India will be the next automatic frontier for Tesla after it started rolling out cars from its factory in China, world's largest car market.
Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk indicated on Friday that the US electric carmaker will make a foray into Indian market in 2021.
"Next year for sure," Musk said on Twitter in reply to a post with a photograph of a T-shirt with the message: "India wants Tesla".

02/10/2020

Lal Bahadur Shastri took birth on October 2 in the year 1904, to Smt. Ramdulari Devi and Sharada Prasad Srivastava, in Mughalsarai, United Provinces that is now ‘Uttar Pradesh’. Lal Bahadur Shastri and Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation have their birthdays on the same date on 2nd October.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was against the usual caste system in our country. Therefore, he made a decision to drop his surname and not to use it anywhere officially. He got the title “Shastri” after the completion of his graduation at the Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh in the year 1925. The title “Shastri” means a “scholar” or a person that is skilful in the “Holy Scriptures”.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second honourable Prime Minister of India after the independence of the country. He took an oath after the sudden death of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of our Nation. Relatively, he was new to the high office, he led the country positively through the India-Pakistan War in the year 1965. And that was a hugely successful event for the country. He spread the slogan saying “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”. Through the slogan, he started making people recognize the necessity for self-sustenance and self-reliance. 

02/10/2020

Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien, along with several other members of parliament, was roughed up by Uttar Pradesh police on their way to Uttar Pradesh's Hathras where a 20-year-old was gang r***d and tortured about two weeks ago.


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02/10/2020

Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated every year on October 2 to honour the legendary leader, Mahatma Gandhi without whom, India wouldn’t have been free from the clutches of the Britishers. His non-violent ways united millions of people to follow the path of ‘Ahimsa’ and protest against the evil oppression. Mahatma Gandhi left behind a legacy to inspire people and unify with brotherhood in arms. October 2 has been announced as a national holiday in India but people across the country and globe celebrate the occasion by participating in functions, theatres, community services, etc. Schools and educational institutions hold activities like essay-writing, art and poetry competitions, and plays to commemorate Gandhi’s ideologies once again.

01/10/2020

Just now police pushed me, lathicharged me and threw me to the ground. I want to ask, can only Modi Ji walk in this country? Can't a normal person walk? Our vehicle was stopped, so we started walking: Congress leader RahulGandhi (ANI)

01/10/2020

Stopped on way to , Gandhis march to meet woman's family.

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01/10/2020

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have left for Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to meet the family of the woman who died after being allegedly gang-r***d and whose cremation in the night by the police provoked widespread outrage.
Party sources cited by the news agency IANS said the permission for the visit had been sought from the Uttar Pradesh government. Many leaders of the Congress are expected to accompany them.

However, Hathras district magistrate P Lakshkar said on Thursday that the borders of Hathras are sealed and Section 144 has been imposed in the district. "We have no information about Priyanka Gandhi's visit. Special Investigation Team (SIT) will meet the victim's family members today, media will not be allowed," he was quoted by ANI as saying.



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01/10/2020

Khargone (MP): A minor girl was kidnapped from her house and gang-r***d by three men in a field in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district, police said today, even as the country shudders at the savage gang-r**e and death of a 20-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh.
The girl's brother said three men allegedly came to their house in Marugarh on Tuesday night and asked for water. A fight broke out and the accused pushed the girl's brother who rushed out to get help. The accused then took away the girl with them, police told reporters today.

She was allegedly gang-r***d in a field and left there after which the accused fled. Her brother, who had gathered people for help, tried to chase the accused, Superintendent of Police Shailendra Singh Chauhan said.

01/10/2020

A 22-yr-old Dalit woman died after she had allegedly been gang-r***d by two youths in a Balrampur village in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, said police. The victim was cremated on Wednesday night itself after post-mortem by a panel of four doctors.
The incident occurred on Tuesday when the girl had gone to take admission in a college near her village but did not return home till late evening, superintendent of police of Balrampur, Dev Ranjan Verma, said. The girl later returned on a rickshaw with glucose drip inserted in her hand while family members were searching for her.
Verma said the family members stated that the girl’s condition was not good so they rushed her to a nearby hospital and later to the Balrampur district hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.

30/09/2020

The ministry of home affairs has announced a detailed guideline of Unlock 5, to be effective from October 1, shortly. Despite a steep rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country, the home ministry has made it clear that there would be more relaxations and fewer restrictions, though local administrations in some states are heavily relying on voluntary curfew, local lockdowns etc.

30/09/2020

Around 60 Left activists were detained when they tried to stage a protest outside the Uttar Pradesh Bhawan in the national capital against the gang r**e and death of a 19-year-old woman in Hathras, police said. The protesters arrived at the UP Bhawan for the protest, but were detained immediately and taken to Mandir Marg police station, they said. (PTI)

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28/09/2020

Around 15-20 people set a tractor on fire at India Gate in Delhi on Monday morning, police said. The incident comes amid protests by farmers and opposition parties across the country over the contentious farm legislations that were passed by the Parliament last week.
According to fire officials, they received information regarding the incident at 7.42 am and two fire tenders were rushed to the spot.

28/09/2020

Peshawar: The provincial government in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has decided to purchase the ancestral houses of legendary Bollywood actors Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar to conserve the historic buildings which are in dilapidated condition and facing demolition threat.

18/09/2020

Google has taken digital payments behemoth Paytm off its Play Store on Friday, stating that the app was allowing customers to play online games, which facilitated sports betting.
Earlier today, Google India as part of its blog released its new guidelines against gambling policies in the country.

17/09/2020

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the Akali Dal, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will resign from her post over government's farm ordinances, which have triggered farmers' protests across Punjab and Haryana.

"SAD member and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal will resign from government to protest farm bills," SAD Member of Parliament (MP) Sukhbir Singh Badal said in Lok Sabha, where the three contentious bills--- The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020; and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020--- were being debated.
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16/09/2020

New Delhi: The new parliament building will be constructed by Tata Projects Limited at a cost of Rs 861.90 crore, officials said today.
The Tatas beat Larsen and Toubro, who had submitted a bid of Rs 865 crore.
The Central Public Works Department opened the financial bids for the construction of a new parliament building today.

16/09/2020

“The Indian Army is fully prepared and more than capable of fighting a full-fledged war even in winters in Eastern Ladakh.”

The Indian Army has drawn comparisons between its preparedness and capacity to weather the extreme conditions in the icy Himalayan heights and declared that it is “well prepared for the prolonged standoff in eastern Ladakh” where PLA troops have created an explosive situation.

16/09/2020

WASHINGTON : The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, even as polls show a strong undercurrent of skepticism rippling across the land.
In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook" for states and localities, federal health agencies and the Defense Department sketched out complex plans for a vaccination campaign to begin gradually in January or possibly later this year, eventually ramping up to reach any American who wants a shot. The Pentagon is involved with the distribution of vaccines, but civilian health workers will be the ones giving shots.

15/09/2020

14/09/2020

हिंदी केवल एक भाषा ही नहीं बल्कि भावनाओं का उमड़ता सैलाब है, जो हर दिन सफलता के नए सोपान गढ़ रही है और एक नदी की मानिंद आगे बढ़ रही है। देश में करीब 77 प्रतिशत लोग हिंदी बोलते हैं। यही कारण है कि हिंदी को राज भाषा का दर्जा प्राप्त है। बता दें कि 14 सितम्बर 1949 को संविधान सभा द्वारा आजाद भारत की मुख्य भाषा के रूप में हिंदी को पहचान दी गई थी। साल 1952 में पहली बार हिंदी दिवस का आयोजन हुआ था। तब से ये सिलसिला लगातार बना हुआ है।

13/09/2020

Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid has been arrested by the Delhi Police's special cell for his alleged role in the riots that broke out in north-east neighbourhoods of the national capital in February this year.
Umar Khalid was earlier charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in another case related to the riots. His mobile phone has been seized by the police, news agency PTI reported.

"After 11 hours of interrogation, the Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Umar Khalid as a conspirator in the Delhi Riots case. The fairy tale narrative that DP (Delhi Police) has been spinning and criminalising protests in the garb of investigating riots, finds yet another victim," United Against Hate, an activist group whose member is Umar Khalid, said in a statement on Sunday.

12/09/2020

British clinical trials for the AstraZeneca and Oxford University coronavirus vaccine have resumed following confirmation by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it was safe to do so, the company said on Saturday.

The late-stage trials of the experimental vaccine, one of the most advanced in development, were suspended this week after an illness in a study subject in Britain.

"The standard review process triggered a voluntary pause to vaccination across all global trials to allow review of safety data by independent committees, and international regulators," AstraZeneca said.

10/09/2020

A huge fire has erupted in the port of Beirut in Lebanon, a month after the massive explosion there which killed some 190 people. Massive flames rose from the fire, and smoke could be seen billowing out over the city's skyline. It was not immediately clear what has caused the fire, and no casualties have been reported so far. Firefighters are at the scene and helicopters have also been sent to help bring the fire under control. Tap the link in our bio to get the latest on the blaze.
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