The government departments will not be able to renew the registration of their vehicles older than 15 years from April 1, 2022, if a proposal in this regard issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is finalised. It has sought the stakeholders' comments to amend related rules in this regard issuing a notification.
The Health Ministry said on Saturday that more than 20 lakh vaccine doses against the coronavirus were administered across the country the previous day, the highest single-day count so far. As many as 16,39,663 beneficiaries were vaccinated for the first dose -- healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) -- and 4,13,874 such people received the second shot.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that night curfew might be imposed in Bhopal and Indore from Sunday or Monday in view of the spurt in coronavirus cases in these two districts. He said this during a meeting held on Friday evening to review the coronavirus situation in the state.
The special cell of Delhi police reached Tihar jail on Saturday, where officials will quiz Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu, the chief of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen, in connection with the Mukesh Ambani bomb scare probe. The permission to carry out the probe in the case was granted by Tihar jail authorities yesterday. The Delhi police had earlier seized two mobile phones from Tihar jail - suspected to have been used for operating a Telegram channel used to claim responsibility for terror acts/ threats, which will now be sent to a laboratory for technical investigations, following which, a decision on Akhtar's custody will be made. 
The doctors of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NrMCD), including all senior, resident and junior resident doctors working across six hospitals and multiple periphery clinics in the civic-run health centres, on Friday have decided to go on an indefinite strike after being unpaid for over four months now.
India on Saturday recorded 24,882 fresh COVID-19 infections, the highest so far this year, which took the caseload to 1,13,33,728, according to Union health ministry data. This is also the highest daily rise in the last 83 days. As many as 26,624 new infections were recorded on December 20.
Amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in the state, social distancing norms were flouted in Maharashtra's Nagpur as people gathered outside a liquor store on Friday night ahead of a week-long lockdown starting on Monday. Similarly, hundreds of people were seen flouting social distancing norms at a cotton market in the city.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
