Authorities resumed search operation to look for any more victims at a chemical plant here on Tuesday, a day after a massive fire broke out in the premises, and also summoned the firm's owner to ascertain what kind of materials were being used there, officials said.
The Centre has provided more than 24 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses to States and Union Territories to date, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. "More than 24 crores (24,65,44,060) vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far, through Government of India (free of cost channel) and through direct state procurement category and of this, the total consumption, including wastages, is 23,47,43,489 doses (as per data available at 8 am today)," it said.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has completely lifted the day curfew in all 75 districts. According to a statement issued by Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Information, Navneet Sehgal on Tuesday morning, curfew restrictions will remain in place in all districts from 7 pm to 7 am. "There are now less than 600 active cases in all the districts and hence the day curfew is being lifted. Only 797 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours," he said.
Social media platform Twitter has said It has expressed its intent to comply with the new IT rules. Twitter spokesperson said that the company is making every effort to comply with the rules and that it has shared an overview of progress with the government. Twitter is learnt to have approached the government seeking more time to comply with the new rules.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh will now make the liquor mafia give financial assistance to families of those who die due to consumption of spurious liquor. The decision comes after spurious liquor claimed three dozen lives in Aligarh last week. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered that all illegal liquor outlets would be destroyed.
The Congress on Monday contended that the Narendra Modi government's decision to provide free vaccines to all above 18 years of age was taken after the Supreme Court pulled it up and questioned its vaccine policy.
Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said Punjab Government should not have sold COVID vaccines to private hospitals. Responding to a question on the alleged selling of COVID vaccines by the Punjab Government to private hospitals, the Congress leader said, "I agree that Punjab government should not have given vaccines to private hospitals. But what is the proportion of vaccines they gave to private hospitals in few days when that policy was in force? Maybe 1-2 per cent. They have corrected it now."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...
