Month: December 2020

Indian government appeals to farmers for talks as protests continue

NEW DELHI – The Indian government on Tuesday appealed to farmers to hold further talks to break a nearly month-long deadlock over their demand for the repeal of agricultural reform laws, but farmers’ leaders declined to relent unless these laws are withdrawn. Thousands of protesters have camped on […]

India finds five with coronavirus on UK flight, testing for strain

MUMBAI – Five people arriving in India from Britain have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a government official said on Tuesday, but it was not clear if they had a highly infectious new strain of the virus. India has the second-highest number of infections in the world […]

New coronavirus strain still not found in India: health official

BENGALURU – The new more transmissible strain of the coronavirus detected in Britain has not yet been found in India, a senior government official said on Tuesday, as health authorities prepared to screen all passengers arriving from the United Kingdom since Nov. 25. V.K. Paul, a top COVID-19 […]

DPIIT invites applications for National Startup Awards 2021

DELHI, DECEMBER 22: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is launching the second edition of the National Startup Awards(NSA) 2021. Acknowledging the efforts, initiatives and resilience demonstrated by the startups over the period of unprecedent challenges during the pandemic, additional categories have been introduced to NSA 2021. […]

India’s Active Caseload slumps below 3 lakh; lowest in 163 days

Active Caseload retracts to less than 3% of the Total Cases Less than 20,000 daily New Cases lowest in 173 days DELHI, DECEMBER 22: India has registered several landmark achievements in the fight against the global pandemic today. India’s active caseload has fallen below 3 lakh(2,92,518)today.The share of Active […]

Raksha Mantri speaks to his Japanese Counterpart over telephone

DELHI, DECEMBER 22: Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh held a telephonic conversation with the Minister of Defence of Japan, Mr Kishi Nobuo today.  He congratulated Minister Kishi on his appointment as Minister of Defence and expressed satisfaction at the ongoing defence cooperation between the two countries in spite […]

PM delivers inaugural address at IISF 2020

India has data, demography, demand, democracy to achieve world class scientific solutions: PM Stresses the need of developing science for development of the country Urges to the global community to invest in Indian talent and innovate in India DELHI, DECEMBER 22: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered the […]

First batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Singapore

Singapore, Dec 22: Singapore has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines, making it the first country in Asia to take the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech as it plans to inoculate its 5.7 million people by the third quarter of 2021. The first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech […]

Pak army shells mortars along LoC in Poonch

Jammu, Dec 22:  Pakistani troops opened fire and shelled mortars at forward posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Tuesday, a defence spokesperson said. There was no report of any damage on the Indian side, he said. “At about 0930 hours today, […]

590 passengers from UK land in Mumbai in three flights

Mumbai, Dec 22: As many as 590 passengers landed in Mumbai from the UK in three aircraft on Tuesday, a civic official said, adding no COVID-19 symptomatic person was on board these flights. A BMC official said 187 passengers were from Mumbai, 167 from rest of Maharashtra and 236 […]

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