England has gone under a new national lockdown as Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said the UK would remain under restrictions until at least mid-February, to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus.
Even before the first Covid vaccine is yet to be given in India, political parties have already started politicizing the issue by questioning emergency approval given to the indigenous Covaxin vaccine developed by a Hyderabad company Bharat Biotech.
The seventh round of talks between protesting unions and government ended inconclusively on Monday as the farmers remained adamant on the repeal of the three contentious farm laws. The next meeting has been scheduled for January 8.
Vaccination alone will not kill the pandemic that is still raging across the globe. I spoke to several medical experts. They said, the pandemic is presently under control in India, vaccination may start by January 6, but it does not mean the deadly virus will vanish.
An expert panel on COVID-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Friday recommended to grant emergency use authorisation for the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, being manufactured by Serum Institute of India
Let me begin the New Year by extending my best wishes to all of you. The year that has gone by, was one that frightened each and every one of us.
India may begin vaccinating people against Covid-19 in January and the government’s first priority has been safety and efficacy of the vaccine.
There is widespread outrage over an incident near Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala, in which a middle-aged couple self-immolated in front of police and court-appointed staff while attempting to stop eviction from their land on which they had built a shed for living.
The sixth round of talks between the government and farmers ended on a fruitful note on Wednesday. The Centre agreed on two of four demands raised by the farmer leaders while the remaining issues will be discussed in a meeting scheduled on January 4.
In my prime time show ‘Aaj Ki Baat’ on Tuesday night, farmers from remote areas revealed how Left activists in Punjab went from village to village in recent months and mobilized farmers to join the march to Delhi to demand repeal of the new farm laws.
Thousands of protesting farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at three Delhi border points - Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri - for over a month now demanding a repeal of three farm laws and legal guarantee for minimum support price.
The Centre on Monday invited 40 farmers’ unions for fresh round of talks to be held on Wednesday, saying that the government was committed to find logical solutions to matters that could be acceptable to all.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Monday that his government has undertaken historic reforms in the farm sector to boost agriculture and streng
The only reason why TMC government rejected this scheme is because Mamata Banerjee does not want Narendra Modi to get the credit. Sitting in Kolkata, while Mamata is extending support to the farmers’ agitation in Delhi being run by the CPI-M, there is a third political party, the Congress, which wants to corner Modi taking advantage of the situation.
Protesters on Friday agitating against the new farm laws also tried to run a tractor over a police barricade in Bajpur, of the Udham Singh Nagar district in Uttarakhand
For the last six years, we have been constantly watching Rahul Gandhi alleging that PM Modi was working at the behest of industrialists like Ambani and Adani, but what about the 10 years of UPA rule prior to that? At that time, every Congress leader, including Rahul, was speaking in favour of private and foreign investment in the farming sector.
Delhi Police stopped the Congress convoy which was headed to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 24, and later detained party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Even as the world is grappling with new deadly variants of Coronavirus by clamping travel restrictions, a section of Indian Muslims led by some clerics is raising the bogey of the Covid-19 vaccines being ‘anti-Islamic’ because of reported use of pork gelatin.
9 Muslim organizations met on the news of the use of pig fat in the corona vaccine. In the meeting, the organizations decided that if there is any misunderstanding among the people about the vaccine, they would try to remove it.
The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration called the Gupkar Alliance consisting of seven parties including Farooq Abdullah’s National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party, gained a significant lead in the valley, with a large number of independents holding the key to the councils.
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