Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal tested positive for coronavirus on Friday. The former Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing Industries, who resigned over the farm laws, tweeted that she has mild symptoms and has quarantined herself at home.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has convened an all-party meeting on Friday in Kolkata to discuss strategies to limit the spread of Covid-19 during public election rallies in West Bengal. Aariz Aftab, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, will preside over the meeting. Aftab called the meeting after the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the CEO and concerned officials to ensure strict adherence to guidelines of coronavirus pandemic as mandated by ECI in the remaining phases of polling in West Bengal.
Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director Ranjit Sinha passed away on Friday morning in Delhi, news agency ANI reported. He was 68. Sinha was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the 1974 batch. He had served as the director of the CBI from December 2012 to December 2014.
Amid deteriorating Covid-19 situation in the country, the Centre has granted permission to Haffkine Institute, Mumbai to manufacture Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin. The state-run biomedical research institute will manufacture the drug on the basis of transfer of technology.
Acting on a tip-off, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and local police in a joint operation busted a gang involved in black marketing of Remdesivir COVIFOR, used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The STF and police also arrested three men during the operation.
The Odisha government on Thursday demanded at least 25 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine in a single lot from the Centre as it is unable to expedite the ongoing immunisation programme, a minister said.
Madhya Pradesh would get 450 metric tonnes of medical oxygen from other states shortly for treatment of critical COVID-19 patients, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Thursday.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...
