NEW DELHI: India may start vaccinating people against Covid-19 in January and the government’s first priority has been the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, said Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. “Personally, I think it can be in January at any stage or any week, there may be a time …
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NEW DELHI: Eleven days after the talks broke down, on Sunday, the Center once again reached out to protesting farmers unions urging them to provide details of all remaining concerns, beyond those identified above, and fix a date at your convenience for the next round of discussions to come up …
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NEW DELHI: Facebook briefly suspended and later restored the Kisan Ekta Morcha (KEM) after the outrage on social media Sunday night. The tech giant admitted to TOI that it had removed the Facebook page and said it regretted the inconvenience caused. At around 7.30pm, KEM tweeted that its Facebook page …
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SRINAGAR: A group of Chinese soldiers in two vehicles they recently crossed the Indian border into the village of Changthang in the Nyoma area, 135 km east of Leh in Ladakhaccording to a video released by neighbors on Sunday. Chinese soldiers, who were dressed in civilian clothes, apparently opposed local …
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BENGALURU: state Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in the city center has arranged to observe the celestial conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn planets on Monday between 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., an official said Sunday. “We have installed telescopes in our facilities to observe the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on Monday …
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AGRA: They don’t leave their house, no one enters without a close check, and they have hardly spoken to anyone else in town for three months. The 19-year-old’s family Dalit girl from Hathras who supposedly was gangrabped and killed just wants to get out “We had said this before and …
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NEW DELHI: Home Secretary Amit Shah has said rulemaking for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will resume shortly after the pandemic situation improves. “The CAA rules have not yet been framed as such a massive process could not be carried out due to the crown. As soon as the (Covid) …
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NEW DELHI: Farmers unions announced a one-day relay hunger strike on Monday at all protest sites to push for the repeal of the CenterThe new agricultural laws, even as the Union Interior Minister Amit Shah said that Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar is likely to hold talks with the protest …
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NEW DELHI: The Union Health Ministry convened an urgent meeting of its Joint Monitoring Group on Monday to discuss the emergence of a mutated variant of the coronavirus in the UK, which has led to an increase in the infection rate there . Several European countries have banned flights from …
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NEW DELHI: The District Development Council (DDC) in Jammu and Kashmir, which concluded on Saturday, saw a higher level of voting in traditional low turnout areas such as Srinagar, Awantipora, Shopian and Anantnag, compared to last year’s parliamentary elections and even the 2018 panchayat polls. This, noted a senior J&K …
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