RAJNATH IN LADAKH: NEIGHBOURS CAN TALK, NEED PURE INTENTIONS Seeking “resolution of issues” through talks, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Monday that India’s neighbours should also think that “we will remain neighbours” and issues can be settle
IN A FIRST, DRONES STRIKE AT IAF STATION IN JAMMU AIRPORT; 2 INJURED In what is the first time terrorists have used drones to strike vital installations, two bombs were dropped at the IAF station in Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.
PLAN TO VACCINATE ALL ADULTS BY END OF THE YEAR: CENTRE TO SC Prodded by the Supreme Court, which held its vaccine pricing policy “irrational” and raised questions of access and equity, the Centre Saturday told the court that until the end of this year, it expected t
NO ACRIMONY AT J&K TALKS: POLLS FIRST, STATEHOOD LATER, SAYS PM In his first direct engagement with leaders of Jammu and Kashmir in almost two years, many of whom were detained for long spells following the stripping of the erstwhile state’s special status and its divi
CONGRESS SLAMS DIP IN VACCINATIONS, CALLS MONDAY’S START A 'PR EVENT' The Congress on Wednesday attacked the government over the dip in vaccination numbers after a record high earlier this week with former party chief Rahul Gandhi saying the country is not safe unless vacc
DELTA PLUS IS NOW ‘VARIANT OF CONCERN’, 3 STATES TOLD TO KEEP A WATCH The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday categorised the Delta Plus variant of the novel coronavirus, so far detected in three states in the country, as a ‘variant of concern’ and directed
83 LAKH JABBED IN ONE DAY AS NEW PHASE OF VACCINATION KICKS IN As India returned to centralised procurement and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, it reported 82.70 lakh vaccinations on Monday, a daily record by far.
ACTIVE COVID CASES FALLING IN 90% DISTRICTS ACROSS INDIA While more than 50,000 new cases of coronavirus infections are still being detected across the country every day, almost 90 per cent of the over 650 districts for which data are available, are now in a phase of steady decl
BELOW 5% POSITIVITY RATE IN 531 DISTRICTS Govt experts on Friday said there was no clear evidence yet on what levels of herd immunity in a population would be sufficient to ward off Covid-19 virus, warning people against laxity amid massive disease spread and progressive fall in
POSSIBLE THIRD COVID WAVE UNLIKELY TO AFFECT CHILDREN, WHO-AIIMS SURVEY REVEALS A third possible wave in India by the prevailing Covid-19 virus variant is unlikely to disproportionately affect children than adults, a seroprevalence study conducted by the World Health Organisatio
