NEW DELHI — A senior epidemiologist at AIIMS who is the principal investigator of Covaxin trials for adults and children at the institute on Sunday termed the Centre’s decision to vaccinate children against Covid “unscientific” and said it will not yield any additional benefit. Dr Sanjay K Rai, who is also the president of the […]
KOHIMA — The Nagaland government on Sunday said that a committee would soon be instituted to look into the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the state. The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 23rd and the same was attended by Nagaland […]
HARYANA — A statue of Jesus Christ was vandalised at a Church in Haryana’s Ambala this afternoon. Police are analysing CCTV footage but haven’t yet been able to identify the criminals. “Two men jumped the boundary wall at 12:30 pm and vandalised a Jesus Christ’s statue at around 1:40 pm. They haven’t been identified yet, […]
NEW DELHI — A PIL has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the high courts to take appropriate steps to adopt a uniform procedure for case registration and to use common judicial terms, phrases and abbreviations. The plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, has also sought directions to the Law Commission […]
NEW DELHI — The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted emergency use authorisation to Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for children above 12 years with certain conditions, sources said on Saturday. The Subject Expert Committee on COVID-19 of the CDSCO on October 12 after deliberating Bharat Biotech’s EUA application had recommended granting emergency use approval […]
NEW DELHI — Reacting sharply to hate speeches allegedly made at a ‘Dharma Sansad’ held recently in Haridwar, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday demanded the strictest action against those who incite violence, saying such acts violate the Constitution and the law. Hitting out at the remarks made at the Haridwar conclave, Priyanka Gandhi […]
JAISALMER — A MiG-21 Bison fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer in the evening during a training exercise killing onboard pilot Wing Commander Harshit Sinha. IAF in a tweet confirmed the death of the pilot expressing sorrow over the tragic incident. “With deep sorrow, IAF conveys the sad demise […]
NEW DELHI — The Uttarakhand Police have registered a first information report (FIR) against Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi, formerly known as Waseem Rizvi, and others for allegedly giving a “provocative speech” against “a particular religion” at a Dharma Sansad in Haridwar on December 17-19, ANI reported. Wasim Rizvi was former chairman of the Uttar Pradesh […]
NEW DELHI — Intelligence agencies warned of more terror attacks in Punjab before elections and asked state police to intensify the safety of sensitive installations and close watch on social media, ANI reported. A senior officer said that several security advisories were already issued to the state police anticipating terror activity. Keeping a close watch […]
LUCKNOW — The Allahabad High Court on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Election Commission (EC) to look for ways to “postpone” the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh by a couple of months and ban all political rallies in other poll-bound states amid rising cases of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 […]