Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Daily Covid-19 cases recovered in India have been outpacing new daily cases for the past 20 days, while total active cases amount to 1.76,498, accounting for only 1.65 percent of the total infections, said the Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. Cumulative recoveries have increased to 1,03,59,305 with 13,320 patients discharged within 24 hours….
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will purchase 2-3 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from its Indian manufacturing company Serum Institute of India over the next two days, a senior Sri Lankan official said here on Wednesday. Lalith Weeratunga, an adviser to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said the purchases from India will follow the arrival of free vaccines from…
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NEW DELHI: An Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) study on Covaxin shows comparable neutralizing activity from individuals vaccinated against the UK variant strain. The ICMR National Institute of Virology scientist performed the plaque reduction neutralization test using sera collected from 26 recipients of the Bharat Biotech coronavirus vaccine (COVAXIN) against the UK variant strain….
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NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Wednesday recorded FIR 22 in connection with the violence that took place during the farm tractor rally on January 26. The protest sparked violence in various parts of the national capital on Tuesday. Farmers broke barricades to enter Delhi and vandalized various parts of the city during their parade. Several…
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NEW DELHI: Twitter on Wednesday it said it suspended more than 300 accounts involved in spamming and rig tampering when the farm tractor rally turned violent in the national capital on the 72nd Republic Day. Farmers invaded the Red Fort and waved Farmers Union flags from its walls. They even hoisted flags of farmers’ unions,…
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UNITED NATIONS: India has announced a commitment of $ 150,000 for Peacebuilding Fund activities this year and said that 2021 provides the international community with an opportunity to view peacebuilding in a more focused way, especially in the context of the Covid pandemic. “While I would like to assure everyone of our sincere commitment to…
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NEW DELHI: Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, a body that brings together protesting unions, called a meeting later Wednesday to discuss the violence that erupted during the farm tractor parade in the national capital. Before the Morcha meeting, representatives from 32 Punjab unions will also gather at the Singhu border, a major protest site against the three…
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NEW DELHI: Peasant leaders have alleged that Punjabi singer and actor Deep Sidhu instigated protesters and led them to the iconic Red Fort and raised flags at the 17th century monument. Famous for his role as a gangster in the Punjabi film ‘Jora Das Numberia’ in 2018, the 36-year-old was one of the first celebrities…
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NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet meeting is scheduled for Wednesday via video conference. “The meeting of the Trade Union Cabinet will take place today at 10:30 am by videoconference,” said an official. The meeting is scheduled to take place after the agricultural tractor demonstration that caused violence in various parts of the national capital on…
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NEW YORK: “Withdrawal.” A single word in a thick bureaucratic file on the seventh day of the Biden administration was a huge victory for the spouses of workers on H-1B visas in the US who have spent the past four years worrying that their work authorizations were eliminated. The latest development ends years of efforts…
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