India has administered over 110 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines. Currently, only two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine are allowed to be injected into an eligible person. For better protection against Covid-19, the central government is likely to allow a booster dose to all or certain categories of individuals based on…
Politicians across party lines demanded the government take back the Padma Shri bestowed on actor Kangana Ranaut after she triggered a controversy by describing India’s Independence in 1947 as ‘bheek’ or alms. Ranaut also claimed that India attained freedom only after 2014, when the Narendra…
Gujarat’s Vadodara is reportedly set to launch a drive to penalise street hawkers who sell non-vegetarian food ‘openly’. According to local reports, civic officials in Vadodara have been instructed to ensure that food stalls do not ‘visibly’ sell non-vegetarian food; such stalls and carts must ensure that the…
The Bihar Police has arrested more than 800 suspects so far after at least 36 people died from drinking spurious liquor. The police action came just before chief minister Nitish Kumar’s prohibition review meeting on November 16. The police also seized 20,000 litres of liquor in raids across the state. The Nitish…
Sources in the Intelligence agencies revealed on Friday that at least 38 Pakistani terrorists are present in Jammu and Kashmir. “These terrorists are under the radar of security forces,” sources said. The Intelligence agencies prepared a list of Pakistani terrorists involved in terror incidents in the…
The US will now provide automatic work authorisation permits to the spouses of H-1B visa holders. The immigration-friendly move of the Biden administration is likely to benefit thousands of Indian-American women. An H-4 visa, a non-immigrant visa, is issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to…
Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy alleged that the accused in the Bitcoin scam hacked into Jan Dhan accounts and transferred Rs 2 from each account, amounting to about Rs 6,000 crore. “I have been told that hacking of Jan Dhan accounts happened. Rs 2 per Jan Dhan account was hacked and transferred.…
Two Bangladeshis were killed on Friday when the Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire along the International Border in West Bengal’s Coochbehar to thwart a cattle smuggling bid, a spokesperson said. A jawan of the border force was also injured and was admitted to a nearby hospital, news agency PTI reported.…
Dr Kafeel Ahmad Khan, the paediatrician against whom the Uttar Pradesh government had issued suspension orders, has now been dismissed from service in the 2017 BRD Hospital case. Sixty-three children had died at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College in August 2017 due to an alleged shortage of oxygen. In a video posted…
Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik has launched a scathing attack on actor Kangana Ranaut over her controversial ‘freedom was bheekh’ comment and said she seemed to be high on Malana cream (drug) . Kangana Ranaut landed herself in a massive controversy with her comment stating that…