Month: December 2020

NCST Develops Software to Facilitate Web Enabled Grievance Redressal System

DELHI, DECEMBER 31: National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has developed a software to facilitate web enabled grievance redressal system. This initiative will facilitate ease of filling a complaint in the Commission by any aggrieved person belonging to Scheduled Tribe community or their representatives and it will also […]

Interfaith marriage: HC quashes FIR, says adult woman has right to live as she wishes

Allahabad, Dec 28: The Allahabad High Court has quashed an FIR lodged against a Muslim man over a marriage with a Hindu woman, ruling that she had a right to live her life on her own terms. Upholding the interfaith marriage in a case from Uttar Pradesh’s Etah district, […]

US court shuts down fraud scheme targeting elderly Americans via India-based call centers

By Yoshita Singh New York, Dec 30: A US court has ordered the permanent shut down of a technical-support fraud scheme, masterminded by an American citizen and operated through call centres in India, that allegedly defrauded hundreds of elderly and vulnerable Americans. The US Justice Department said on Tuesday […]

Talat releases physiology book authored by local academicians

JAMMU, DECEMBER 30: Commissioner Secretary, Higher Education Department, Talat Parvez Rohella, released a book titled ‘Animal Physiology and Biochemistry’ at Civil Secretariat here today. The book has been authored by Principal Government Degree College Chenani, Dr. Pragya Khanna and Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Jammu, Parvinder […]

Bulletin on Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19)

JK reports 217 new positive cases, 115830 recovered so far JAMMU, DECEMBER 30-The Government on Wednesday informed that 217 new positive cases of novel Corona virus (COVID-19), 116 from Jammu division and 101 from Kashmir division, have been reported today thus taking the total number of positive cases […]

Biden criticizes pace of vaccine rollout, vows to accelerate

WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get worse before they get better” when it comes to the pandemic. “We need to be honest — the next few weeks and months are […]

Vaccinated U.S. nurse contracts COVID-19, expert says Pfizer shot needed more time to work: ABC

A nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc’s vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported bit.ly/2L8iBel on Tuesday, but a medical expert said the body needs more time to build up protection. Matthew W., 45, a nurse at two different local hospitals, said […]

Blast, gunfire at Aden airport after plane carrying new government lands; 5 killed

ADEN – At least five people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday, a security source said, shortly after a plane carrying a newly formed cabinet for government-held parts of Yemen arrived from Saudi Arabia. Loud blasts and gunfire were heard […]

India drug regulator meets to discuss AstraZeneca vaccine: sources

NEW DELHI – Experts at India’s drug regulator were meeting on Wednesday to consider approving an AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine for emergency use after Britain became the first country to do so, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. A representative of India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization […]

UK rolls out Astra/Oxford COVID vaccine after world-first approval

LONDON – Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, hoping that rapid action would help it stem a surge of infections driven by a highly contagious variant of the virus. Boris Johnson’s government, which […]

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