Month: February 2021

PM to address Convocation of Visva-Bharati on 19th February

DELHI, FEBRUARY 17: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will address the Convocation of Visva-Bharati on 19th February, 2021 at 11 AM via video conferencing. Governor of West Bengal & Rector of Visva-Bharati, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar; Union Education Minister Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Union MoS for Education Shri […]

Update on COVID-19 Vaccination- Day 33

Close to 92lakh COVID19 vaccine doses administered More than 1.8Lvaccine doses given till 6 pm today; 65,739 HCWs received second dose of vaccine today No case of serious/severe AEFI/Death attributable to vaccination has been reported DELHI, FEBRUARY 17: The cumulative number of COVID19 vaccine doses administered to healthcare […]

Oppn demands Narayanasamy to prove majority in Pondy assembly, petitions Lt Guv’s office

Puducherry, Feb 17: A delegation of opposition parties led by AINRC on Wednesday submitted a plea to an official in the Lt Governor’s office, seeking a direction to Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy to prove his government’s majority on the floor of the Assembly. A day after the Congress […]

Foreign envoys visit historic Hazratbal shrine in J-K

Srinagar, Feb 17: A delegation of 24 envoys visited the historic Hazratbal shrine on the banks of Dal Lake on Wednesday on the first day of their visit to Jammu and Kashmir to take a first-hand account of the situation in newly-carved union territory. The shrine contains a holy […]

Two drug peddlers arrested in J-K’s Udhampur, Reasi

Jammu, Feb 17: Two alleged drug peddlers were arrested on Wednesday after huge quantities of poppy straw and charas were recovered from their possession in Udhampur and Reasi districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, was arrested after 18 kg of […]

Congress sweeps Punjab civic polls, boost for Amarinder

Chandigarh, Feb 17: The ruling Congress won six municipal corporations and emerged as the largest party in the seventh, sweeping the urban body polls in Punjab on Wednesday. The party won Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Batala and Pathankot corporations in the civic polls on February 7, held against the […]

India’s dramatic fall in virus cases leaves experts stumped

NEW DELHI — When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world’s second-most populous country. Infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked like it might overtake the United States as the country with the […]

Myanmar military guarantees new election; protesters block train services

Myanmar’s military junta guaranteed on Tuesday that it would hold an election and hand over power, denied its ouster of an elected government was a coup or that its leaders were detained, and accused protesters of violence and intimidation. The junta’s defence of its Feb. 1 seizure of […]

India to multiply vaccinations amid coverage concerns

India will increase the number of its COVID-19 vaccination sites by up to five times after administering nearly 9 million shots in a month, a government official said on Tuesday, amid concerns about the speed of coverage in the country. Having reported the highest number of coronavirus infections […]

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