Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday said he had an interaction with his Italian counterpart, Roberto Speranza, on giving priority in travel to vaccinated Indian students enrolled in educational institutions in Italy and on enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field of health and medicine.
As many as 105 patients with dengue and viral fever were admitted on Sunday to the government medical college in UP’s Firozabad, where the diseases have claimed 51 lives so far.
The Goa government has extended the ongoing Covid-induced curfew till September 13, officials said on Sunday. The curfew was first imposed on May 9 this year and has been extended several times since then.
The World Bank is considering approving a loan of 125 million dollars to the West Bengal government to help its efforts to strengthen and empower the vulnerable groups of society. To avail of the loan the state government will have to engage an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) that will verify the Disbursement Linked Results (DLR).
The Delhi High Court has refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking basic various amenities such as potable water, sewage lines and plantations of trees in a locality here, saying such grievances have to be first raised before the authorities concerned. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh granted liberty to the petitioner, a resident of the locality, to prefer a representation to the authorities, detailing the “exact grievances including suggestions, if any”.
Two senior Punjab ministers -- Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa -- have demanded that Batala should be created as 24th district of the state to honour the wish of the people and overall development of this area. In a letter to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, they underscored that Batala was a historic town but did not get the focus it deserved. The two ministers said along with this the historic towns of Fatehgarh Churian and Hargobindpur or Ghuman should be made new sub-divisions of the new district.
The judicial commission that probed all aspects of slain gangster Vikas Dubey's rise and fall, has endorsed the findings of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which had found that as many as 26 officials of the district administration and revenue department had helped Dubey and his associates in getting arms licences and fair price shop permits.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...
