- Sunday, February 23, 2025
The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand has sought a police inquiry into allegations of private labs filing fake reports related to Covid-19. According to media reports, fake names, mobile numbers and addresses were used in more than 100,000 tests that were held during the Kumbh festival in the state in…
Shubham Ghosh AS the Narendra Modi government in India engaged with the Opposition over the widened gap between two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine saying the latter was politicising the issue, it has been reported that the scientific opinion was not favouring a wider gap. The Indian health ministry…
Nearly 135 Indian peacekeepers deployed with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have been conferred the UN medals for “outstanding performance”. India is the one of the largest troop-contributing nations to UN peacekeeping missions. The UNMISS congratulated the people of India in a tweet on Monday (14) saying:…
Shubham Ghosh INDIA of late has seen a devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc across its length and breadth but it is in its remote peaks that the disaster has hurt the most, thanks to lack of medical facilities, roads and information. The situation has been so…
Shubham Ghosh A day after Twitter said that it has appointed an interim chief compliance officer in India, the country’s Information Technology (IT) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday (15) the social media giant deliberately defied and failed to comply with India’s new IT rules that became effective in…
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday (16) slammed the Samajwadi Party (SP) over the meeting of a few of her party’s suspended state legislators’ with SP chief Akhilesh Yadav a day before. In a series of tweets written in Hindi, she accused the SP of playing dirty politics…
Shubham Ghosh INDIA'S main Opposition party Congress on Wednesday (16) slammed the Narendra Modi government over its decision to double the gap between the doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, asking whether the move was made keeping in view the vaccine’s shortage. Reuters on Tuesday (15) reported that the government…
Shubham Ghosh POLITICAL developments in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which will go to Assembly elections next year, saw a dramatic turn on Tuesday (15) when a number of suspended lawmakers of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) met Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. Speculation was rife following…
Shubham Ghosh EVERY crisis creates an opportunity and the coronavirus pandemic has been no different. Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw feels the same as she said ahead of the annual India- US bio-pharma summit in Boston next week that the ongoing health crisis has led to the creation of an “ecosystem”…
Shubham Ghosh PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (14) said the country is on the right track to achieve its target of land-degradation neutrality. The leader said this while delivering a keynote address at the United Nations’ “High-Level Dialogue on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought” via a video call. “We…
