Two medical officers at the JN Medical College (JNMC) in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) connected to the case involving the gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras were removed from their posts on Tuesday. One had contradicted the state police’s claim that the victim wasn’t raped, […]
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30 million frontline workers to get Covid-19 vaccine in phase 1
India is looking at vaccinating about 30 million people, including healthcare specialists, who are on the frontline of the fight against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the first phase once protection against the viral disease becomes available, Union health ministry officials said on Tuesday. The 30 million include 7 million […]
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Safeguard rights of NGOs: UN human rights chief to India
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday expressed regret at the tightening of space for human rights NGOs in India, including by the application of vaguely worded laws that constrain their activities and restrict foreign funding. Bachelet asked the Indian government to safeguard the rights of human rights defenders […]
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Ex-cop sues Arnab Goswami for defaming Mumbai police, asks court to gag him
Former Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Iqbal Shaikh has approached the city civil court seeking a restraining order against the news channel Republic TV and its editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami from airing any material related to TRP scam. An FIR in the case has been registered at Kandivali police station. Shaikh […]
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Mumbai: BEST bus driver suffers heart attack, bus hits signal, passengers safe
A bus driver working for the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) suffered a heart attack in Mumbai on Tuesday while driving a vehicle. Haridas Patel was driving a single-decker BEST bus, which runs on the Ghatkopar bus depot and Chembur’s Tata Power House route. Patel, who suffered the hear attack, lost […]
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Congress questions BJP over delay in allowing women in local trains in Mumbai
The Congress, which is a part of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government that also comprises the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are locked in a tussle over the reopening of temples and suburban trains, despite the raging coronavirus […]
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PM Modi to address the nation at 6pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday he will address the nation in the evening as the country battled the coronavirus pandemic with more than 7.5 million infections and 115,197 deaths recorded so far. “Will be sharing a message with my fellow citizens at 6 PM this evening,” PM Modi […]
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Pakistan lifts ban on TikTok after the app promises to moderate content
Pakistan’s telecom regulator on Monday announced that it was lifting a ban on popular video-sharing app TikTok. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a statement that the decision was taken after TikTok’s management assured the PTA that it will block all accounts “involved in spreading obscenity and immorality” in […]
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India’s daily Covid-19 cases less than 50,000 for first time in 3 months
The number of new coronavirus infections dropped below 50,000 for the first time in nearly three months in India on Tuesday even as the country’s Covid-19 tally inched close to 7.6 million, the Union health ministry’s data showed. On Tuesday, there were 46,790 new cases of Covid-19 from across the […]
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Bihar Assembly Election 2020: State Congress sidelined as AICC takes control of poll preparations
The Congress has unleashed all its firepower in Bihar with the party’s central leadership taking control of the state unit, monitoring day-to-day poll preparations and supervising coordination with alliance partners for the upcoming assembly elections. This is perhaps for the first time when the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the […]
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India records 46,790 new Covid-19 cases, 587 deaths; tally close to 7.6 million
There were 46,790 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 587 related deaths in the last 24 hours as India’s infection tally went up to 7,597,063, according to the Union health ministry on Tuesday. The number of Covid-19 cases and death have been relatively low for two days now […]
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AIIMS reports first case of Covid-19-related brain nerve damage in a child
The New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has reported its first coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-induced brain nerve damage in a girl (11), which has led to her blurred vision. The doctors in the child neurology division are preparing a report on her health condition that they plan to […]
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In Pak Army approach to terror in Kashmir, building synergy is new buzzword
The Rawalpindi general headquarters of the Pakistan army has been able to forge operational synergy since August 2019 between Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists in the Kashmir ValleyThe outcome of such a synergy has usually been coordinated terror attacks. The inputs reveal efforts by Pakistan-based terror groups, with the […]
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Delhi’s AQI remains in ‘poor’ category today as well
The national Capital’s air quality index (AQI) on Tuesday continued to remain in the poor category, as the hourly data showed 232 at 7 am, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). CPCB’s 4 pm bulletin on Monday showed that the overall AQI of Delhi was 244, a marginal improvement […]
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5 worst-hit states have seen decline in active Covid-19 cases: Health ministry
The Union ministry of health said on Tuesday the five states most affected by the coronavirus pandemic have seen a decline in the number of Covid-19 cases since the last one month. The health ministry said the trend of daily cases of the coronavirus disease in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil […]