NEW DELHI: It was learned that the Indian intelligence establishment has intercepted crucial financial transactions with ties to wanted Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, suggesting that a Malaysia-based Rohingya group may be in an advanced stage of orchestrating a terrorist attack in the country by a group led by a woman. …
Read More »Will not impose coercive measures to control the population, says the government to SC | India News
NEW DELHI: The Center has told the Supreme Court that India is about to achieve a replacement level of the fertility rate of 2.1 through various voluntary birth control measures and rejected suggestions to adopt the coercive model of birth control. China’s population, saying such methods cause demographic distortions. Presentations …
Read More »Center, Bengal in fight for three IPS officers | India News
NEW DELHI / CALCUTTA: In what will be seen as an escalation of the BJP’s political confrontation with the Trinamool Congress, the Interior Ministry has summoned three IPS officers from the West Bengal cadre to the central delegation, as part of a exercise to establish responsibility for the alleged lapses …
Read More »UP introduces a fine of Rs 1cr to stop the flight of doctors | India News
LUCK: In an attempt to check the depletion number of specialists from the Provincial Health and Medicine Services (PMHS), the UP government has forced government doctors seek the NOC to undertake postgraduate courses to serve in the picture for at least 10 years, Shailvee Sharda reports. Those who fail to …
Read More »Farmers stop collecting tolls, plan hunger strike on December 14 | India News
NEW DELHI: Farmers prevented the collection of fees at toll plazas in Haryana and parts of western UP on Saturday, the 17th day of protest at the Delhi borders, even as they announced they would intensify their agitation by observing a one-day hunger strike on December 14th. While the heads …
Read More »Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine May Be Available in India for the First Half of Next Year: Official | India News
NEW DELHI: Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine may be available in the country from the first half of next year, AstraZeneca Country President Gagandeep Singh said on Saturday. Speaking at the 93rd annual FICCI chamber of industry convention, he said that in the current pandemic, the vaccine must be available widely, equitably …
Read More »600 million injections, 100 people per session: details of India’s mega vaccination campaign | India News
NEW DELHI: With at least three candidate vaccines under regulatory review for emergency use, India has begun preparing for a mega vaccination campaign to immunize millions of vulnerable people in the next six to eight months. The government has said it will deploy its vast electoral machinery to deliver 60 …
Read More »Harsh Vardhan says medicine “is not just a profession, but a vocation” | India News
NEW DELHI: Highlighting the role played by the Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) of Delhi amidst the pandemic, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday he gave a message at the university convocation ceremony, saying that medicine is not “just a profession, but a vocation” and you have to keep …
Read More »Group of farmers in support of new laws meets with agriculture minister and threatens to protest if repealed | India News
NEW DELHI: Amid an ongoing protest against three farm laws, a delegation of 29 farmers from Haryana met with the Minister of Agriculture Narendra singh Take Saturday to extend their support for the new legislation and threatened to organize a protest if they are repealed. The delegation, led by Bharatiya …
Read More »Ready for talks with government, but will discuss repeal of farm laws first: Peasant leaders | India News
NEW DELHI: Threatening to further intensify their protest, peasant leaders said on Saturday that they are ready to hold talks with the government, but will first discuss repealing all three. new agricultural laws. Address a press conference at Singhu border, farmer leader Kanwalpreet Singh Pannu said that thousands of farmers …
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