Rumita Patel
BIJNOR: The UP police have put many of them under house arrest in Bijnor and Muzaffarnagar and have arrested hundreds of farmers who were marching in tractors to Delhi from Baghpat. Several districts in western UP have witnessed tractor drills. In Shamli, they held a march to the Haryana border. On Saturday protests were reported…
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BENGALURU: Dr. AP Nirmal Raj, Bengaluru dental science professor working in Uttar Pradesh, is among the thousands of Indians who have received the Covid vaccine so far. But he’s not just a medical professional whose vaccine inspires public trust: The 47-year-old has undergone a kidney transplant twice and says the related comorbidities he suffers from…
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NEW DELHI: World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday for the country’s support for the global response to Covid-19. Thank you India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for your continued support of the global Covid-19 response. Only if #ACCJuntos, including knowledge sharing, can stop…
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NEW DELHI: Up to one lakh of central paramilitary personnel can be deployed to West Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections, surpassing the nearly 75,000-80,000 employees who stood guard during the state’s 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Although the Electoral Commission and the Ministry of the Interior have yet to find a balance between the central…
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NEW DELHI: As the first historic, albeit largely symbolic, UN treaty banning nuclear weapons came into force on Friday, India said it is neither party to nor does it support it. India is not alone. None of the nuclear weapon states is party to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Even NATO…
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NEW DELHI: Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin will be administered in seven more states – Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal – starting next week, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. It is currently used in 12 states. On Saturday, 1,46,598 people were vaccinated by 6 p.m. in 27 states and UT. So…
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RAJKOT: Gir Somnath district officials confirmed Saturday the first case of bird flu in the region in poultry. About 220 poultry were slaughtered in one day while restraining orders were issued throughout the district regarding the consumption and sale of eggs and chicken. More than a dozen poultry were found dead in the Kodinar taluka…
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NEW DELHI / BATHINDA: Protesting farmers will enter the capital and perform the ‘Kisan Gantantra Parade’ (Peasants’ Republic Day), driving tractors on five different routes covering around 100 km, on January 26 and Delhi Police on Saturday will finally allow them to march peacefully. However, farmers will not be allowed to stay in the city…
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NEW DELHI: This year’s Republic Day parade will be unique as it will witness several firsts and several fallas for the first time. From the participation of troops deployed to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India’s first female fighter pilot, a cadre of Ladakh’s newly formed UT to the flight of the country’s newly acquired…
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NAGPUR: Army Chief General MM Naravane said on Saturday that information security is the biggest challenge for national security in the current scenario “which can have a strong impact on the economy and can also harm the government machinery.” . In his virtual speech on the theme “India’s National Security Scenario: Past, Present and Future”…
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