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Covid-19: Gujarat extends night curfew in 8 cities until July 31

Ahmedabad: As part of ongoing restrictions to curb fresh Covid-19 infections, the Gujarat government has extended the night curfew in 8 cities till July 31, 2021. The night curfew will remain in force in Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Junagarh, Rajkot, Surat, and Vadodara until July 31 from 10 pm to 6 am, the government decided […]

Civil supplies: India’s first food grain ATM opens in Gurugram

  New Delhi: India’s first multi-commodity food grain ATM, called Annapurti,  has been installed in the Farrukhnagar area of Gurugram, as part of an initiative of the Haryana government to streamline the supply of food grain at government-run ration shops. Once successful, the state government plans to set up three more grain ATMs across the […]

Covid-19: ‘”Shun misinformation, get vaccinated”, urges US health chief Dr. Murthy

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: U.S. Surgeon-General Dr. Vivek Murthy, an Indian-American who lost 10 family members in the two countries to the pandemic, has said that misinformation about the Covid-19 poses an “imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health” and condemned the spread of what he called “common myths” by those refusing to […]

Covid-19: IISc’s ‘warm’ vaccine effective against all VOCs, says study

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid a new Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study’s findings that most Covid-19 positive patients, who got at least one vaccine shot before catching the virus, were infected by the Delta variant,  a heat-tolerant vaccine formulation developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has proven effective against all […]

Diplomacy: PM Modi greets Maldivian President Solih for UN post

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih for his foreign minister being made the President of the United Nations General Assembly. President Solih expressed gratitude to Modi for India’s assistance and support in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic despite constraints. Modi congratulated Solih on the election of Maldivian […]

Defence: India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka join a Trilateral Table Top exercise

New Delhi: The navies of India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka participated in a two-day virtual Trilateral Table Top Exercise (TTX), 2021, on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The senior officers who attended the inaugural session of TTX-2021 included the Indian Navy’s Rear Admiral Gurcharan Singh, CSO (Ops), Western Naval Command, Rear Admiral PS Mahawithana, […]

Entertainment: Trailer of “Shershaah”, biopic on Capt. Vikram Batra, launched

Mumbai: The makers of the upcoming war film, Shershaah, shared its first official trailer on social media on Thursday. It is a biopic inspired by the life of the Indian Army’s Captain Vikram Batra and his sacrifice in the 1999 Kargil War, for which he was decorated with the country’s highest gallantry award, Paramveer Chakra, […]

Demise: National Awardee actor Surekha Sikri, 75, passes away

Mumbai: Veteran actor Surekha Sikri, a three-time National Award winner, passed away here early on Friday after a cardiac arrest. She was 75. She is survived by her son Rahul. “Surekha Sikri has passed away following a cardiac arrest earlier this morning at the age of 75. She had been suffering from complications arising from […]

Covid-19: “We are now in early stage of 3rd wave amid Delta surge’ warns WHO chief

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday warned the planet is already in the ‘early stages’ of Covid-19’s third wave, amid Delta variant surge. “Unfortunately…we are now in the early stages of a third wave”, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva. The Delta variant’s spread, along with increased […]

Tokyo Olympics: ‘Winners will have to wear own medals!’

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Now this is a ‘social distancing’ few would expect. As athletes are packing their bags to reach Tokyo for the Olympic Games, starting next week, they have an additional responsibility: they will have to put their medals around their own neck to protect themselves against spreading the Covid-19 pandemic! This […]
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