Persuading locals for the Covid-19 vaccination has remained a tough task for the administration in Madhya Pradesh especially in tribal-dominated areas. The government officers, however, have resorted to a unique way so that the locals have started lining up in front of the vaccination centres in large numbers. To convincing locals to go for the … Read more
The long-drawn power tussle between the Delhi LG and the AAP dispensation resurfaced on Wednesday with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accusing Anil Baijal of holding “parallel” meetings with officials “behind the back” of the elected government. Kejriwal’s remarks came in response to a tweet by Lt Governor Baijal sharing details of a Covid review and … Read more
21 Covid patients died at a Delhi hospital on the intervening night of April 23-24 (Representational) New Delhi: A day after the Delhi Police told a court that the deaths of 21 coronavirus patients in the national capital’s Jaipur Golden Hospital were not due to oxygen shortage, the families of the victims accused the authorities … Read more
Chesterman said the sports’ governing bodies would determine what punishments were imposed. Tokyo, Japan: The drunken antics of Australian Olympians who vomited and disrupted passengers on their flight home from Tokyo had shamed the entire team, a top official said Wednesday. As New Zealand athletes faced allegations of similar loutish behaviour on their returning flight, … Read more
The capital of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, has claimed to have achieved 100 per cent vaccination against COVID-19. The BMC jurisdiction, which tops the list of daily new infections as well as COVID-19 fatalities in the state, has administered as many as 18,77,178 does of vaccines by August 2. While 10,71,676 people have received first dose of … Read more
The capital of Odisha, Bhubaneswar, has claimed to have achieved 100 per cent vaccination against COVID-19. The BMC jurisdiction, which tops the list of daily new infections as well as COVID-19 fatalities in the state, has administered as many as 18,77,178 does of vaccines by August 2. While 10,71,676 people have received first dose of … Read more
Mumbai, Aug 2: Two engineers of the Mumbai civic body and an official from the Maharashtra Dairy Development Commissioner’s office were nabbed on Monday for allegedly accepting bribes of varying amounts in separate incidents, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said. A civic official attached to E ward of the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) was held while … Read more
Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is likely to meet representatives of social media firms after the Parliament session. This comes amid social media giant Twitter’s involvement in a stand-off with the Indian government for the past several months over the new amendments in the country’s new Information Technology laws with the micro-blogging platform losing its … Read more
NEW DELHI: The body of Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prizewinning photojournalist who was killed in Afghanistan last month, was badly mutilated while in the custody of the Taliban, officials said. The revelation comes amid concern that the fighting in Afghanistan has become increasingly brutal as peace talks have stalled. Siddiqui, 38, was killed when Afghan … Read more
Discharge of water from dams and barrages in West Bengal is set to increase as the storage facilities are almost full with heavy rainfall across the state for the last two days, officials said on Saturday. The inflow of water to these facilities is going up due to incessant rain in the state and neighbouring … Read more