Year: 2021

PM Modi to visit Prayagraj today, to transfer Rs 1000 cr to SHGs benefitting 16 lakh women | 10 points

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The programme is being held as per the vision of the Prime Minister to empower women, especially at the grassroots level, by providing them with the necessary skills, incentives, and resources. In this endeavor to support women. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Prayagraj on Tuesday and participate in a one of its kind programme that will be attended by over 2 lakh women, at around 1 PM. The programme is being held as per the vision of the Prime Minister to empower women, especially at the grassroots level, by…

Kerala turning into unlawful state under CM Pinarayi Vijayan: JP Nadda

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Kerala’s coastal Alappuzha district was rocked by back-to-back murders of two senior functionaries, the first belonging to the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and the second to the BJP, leading to clamping of prohibitory orders by police on Sunday. Kerala is turning into an unlawful state under Chief Minister Vijayan Pinarayi as he condemned the murder of the BJP’s state OBC Morcha leader Renjith Sreenivasan, party’s national president J P Nadda said on Sunday. Kerala’s coastal Alappuzha district was rocked by back-to-back murders of two senior functionaries, the first…

UP students to get free smartphones, tablets on Atal anniversary

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A large number of students, including girls, from every district of the state, will participate in the programme. The Yogi Adityanath government will start distributing smartphones and tablets to final year students of graduation and above from December 25, which is the birth anniversary of BJP stalwart and former Prime Minister Late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Around one lakh smartphones and tablets will be given to final year students of B.Tech, B.A, B.Sc, MA, ITI, MBBS, MD, M.Tech, PhD and skill development course, among others, at Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee…

CM Kejriwal says Delhi prepared to deal with Omicron, calls for booster doses

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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said all new cases of Covid-19 will be sent for genome sequencing for Omicron. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said all new cases of Covid-19 will be sent for genome sequencing for Omicron in view of the rising number of related infections being detected in the national capital. Further, the chief minister urged the central government to allow booster doses against the virus. “I appeal to Centre to allow administration of Covid vaccine booster dose in Delhi,” he said. He also said the…

Election Laws (Amendment) Bill tabled in Lok Sabha amid opposition

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Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury opposed the Bill and said it should be referred to a standing committee for scrutiny. “Linking of Aadhaar numbers with voter IDs will lead to mass disenfranchisement,” he said Union law minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday introduced in Lok Sabha the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, which proposes to voluntarily link Aadhaar numbers to electoral rolls and make the language of the Representation of the People (RP) Act gender-neutral, even as Opposition parties slammed the government over the proposed law. Congress lawmaker Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury opposed…

Govt warns against non-essential travel and mass gatherings amidst rising Omicron cases

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Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director general Balram Bhargava has issued a call to avoid non-essential travel and mass gatherings, and observe low-intensity festivities In view of the number of Omicron cases in the country surging past the 100-mark. Addressing a Covid-related briefing Friday, he also called for “local restrictive measures” to be implemented in 24 districts from seven states, including nine in Kerala and eight in Manipur, with a weekly test positivity rate above 5 per cent. Bhargava said, “I would like to further emphasise: time to avoid non-essential travel, time…

Covovax granted Emergency Use Listing by WHO

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Covovax, the coronavirus vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) in partnership with the US-based Novavax, has been granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. This is the ninth COVID-19 vaccine WHO has listed for emergency use in order to increase access to vaccination in lower-income countries. “Today, the World Health Organization issued and emergency use listing (EUL) for NVX-CoV2373, expanding the basket of WHO-validated vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The vaccine, named Covovax, is produced by the Serum Institute of India…

‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ sequel should have a trans girl in the lead: Ayushmann Khurrana

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Ayushmann Khurrana’s latest release, Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui that co-stars Vaani Kapoor, dealt with the theme of gender identity. The story revolved around a weight-lifting champion, who falls in love with a Zumba trainer, who happens to be a trans woman. Receiving mostly positive reviews, the film did attract some criticism for lack of representation for the trans community in the cast. Speaking about the possibility of a sequel, Ayushmann said “If there’s a sequel, we should go for representation, a trans girl should be in the lead. It’s just a conversation-starter and Vaani believes…

The nature of warfare is undergoing fundamental changes: IAF Chief

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Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari on Saturday remarked India’s security dynamics involve multifaceted threats and challenges which will require building multi domain capabilities. He also noted that the nature of warfare is undergoing fundamental changes. Chaudhari was delivering his address at the Combined Graduation Parade at the Air force Academy at Dundigal. During the address Chaudhari said that the Air Force is on the cusp of transformation into a highly potent air force with many new injections such as Rafale jets, Apache helicopters and a wide variety of sophisticated or sophisticated…

BSF shoots down drone along the Indo-Pakistan border

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The Border Security Force (BSF) has said that it shot down a drone along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab on Friday. The Chinese-made drone was downed on Friday around 11:10 PM near the Wan border post in the Ferozepur sector. The black colour flying object was shot at a distance of about 300 metres from the international border and 150 metres from the border fence, the force said in a statement. According to the BSF, the drone was a hexa-copter with four power batteries, and weighed around 23 kg which…