UNITED NATIONS: India, which has been at the forefront of years’ efforts to reform the UN Security Council, will begin his two-year term as a non-permanent member of the powerful body of the world body on Friday. India will sit in the 15 nations United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: The drug regulator’s Subject Matter Experts Committee (SEC) recommended on Friday the granting of an Emergency Use Authorization (USA) for the Serum Institute of India’s ‘Covishield’, raising hopes that it will soon be Covid vaccine available in India. The sources said that the SEC has recommended the EUA …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: Resolved in their demands for the repeal of three new agricultural laws and a legal guarantee for a minimum support price (MSP) for crops, protesting farmers unions On Friday, he said they will have to take firm steps if the government does not make a decision in their …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: The central government said on Friday that four more cases of the mutant strain Covid UK have been detected in the country, bringing the total count of such cases to 29 so far. They are kept in physical isolation in sanitary facilities. Of these 29 cases, eight have …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: The BJP in Bengal received another boost as 15 TMC councilors out of 20 members Municipality of Contai, directed by Soumendu Adhikari, joined the party on Friday. Soumendu is the brother of Suvendu Adhikari and was recently removed by the Trinamool Congress as president of the municipality of …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: India on Friday called for “urgent, practical and time-limited” assistance for 39 Indian sailors stranded aboard two ships in Chinese waters considering the “grave” humanitarian situation development in vessels. Foreign Ministry (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the Indian bulk cargo ship MV Jag Anand has been anchored near …
Read More »
NANDIGRAM: BJP Suvendu leader Adhikari on Friday he said his disgruntled brother and TMC leader Soumendu, recently retired from the administrator post in Contai municipality, will join the saffron camp along with a number of other activists from the state’s ruling party. Stating that the TMC, of which he was …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: India is poised to celebrate New Years Day by giving its first approval to a coronavirus vaccine. The expert panel is likely to approve the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for emergency use on Friday, Reuters reported, citing sources. If approved, India will become …
Read More »
NEW DELHI: Google marked 2021 with a scribble on Friday. The scribble showed a cuckoo announcing the arrival of 2021, a year marked by uncertainty amid the coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday, Google had featured a similar doodle on New Years Eve. “It’s been a cute year, but the 2020 clock is …
Read More »
HYDERABAD: When Chinese citizen Zhu Wei aka Lambo, a key defendant in the loan application case, tried to flee the country, a photo of his passport on the mobile phone of a high-ranking employee of his call center in Gurgaon derailed their plans. He was detained at the Delhi airport …
Read More »