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28 Jun

Nuclear Agni-Prime missile successfully test-fired off the Odisha coast

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India on Monday successfully carried out the test firing of a new missile of the Agni series known as Agni-Prime at 10.55 am, off the Odisha coast . It was test-fired successfully from launchpad No-4 of Chandipur. Known from the government source,”The new nuclear-capable missile is fully made up of composite material and it was a textbook launch.” DRDO officials said that various telemetry stations positioned along the eastern coast tracked and monitored the missile. It has followed textbook trajectory, meeting all mission objectives with a high level of accuracy. Agni-Prime is a short-range ballistic missile. It is a new…

28 Jun

Maharashtra strengthens COVID-19 restrictions in response to ‘Delta Plus’ variant concerns, signalling the start of the third wave

editor0 CommentsCovid-19, IndiaCovid-19

The state of Maharashtra has strengthened restrictions with effect from Monday, amid worries of a third wave of coronavirus and cases of its highly virulent 'Delta Plus' form emerging. The new decision will have an impact on places such as Nagpur, Thane, and Pune, which have seen more relaxations than Mumbai, and remains under 'level 3' limitations despite qualifying for 'level 1', it allows all curbs to be withdrawn. The Maharashtra government had announced a'state-level trigger' for placing limits in administrative units regardless of the weekly positive rate or oxygen bed occupancy percentage earlier on Friday. The Maharashtra government implemented…

28 Jun

VIP Cars, Including Sharad Pawar’s, At Racetrack

editor0 CommentsPolitical, SportsKiren Rijiju, Sharad Pawar

On Saturday, Sharad Pawar, the former chief of the Indian Olympics Association, visited Pune's Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex along with state Sports Minister Sunil Kedar and Minister of State Aditi Tatkare to review a project. Images of their cars parked on the racetrack were posted on Twitter by BJP MLA Siddharth Shirole." Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said today he was "very sad" to see "disrespect for sports" as he reacted to senior Maharashtra ministers and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar using a sports stadium racetrack to park their cars during a meeting in Pune. It is one thing for…

28 Jun

Glance Roposo identifies five winners

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Aiming to identify India’s top short video content creators, #MadeonRoposo, a nation-wide talent hunt launched by Roposo named the show’s winners in the grand finale as 18 finalists including 2 wild card entries vied for the top spots across five categories. The finale took place virtually as all the finalists joined the contest from their respective homes. Each finalist went above and beyond to deliver spectacular performances, as they all competed for the title of #MadeonRoposo winner. Each of the final category winners have won cash prizes of Rs 1-lakh each along with a once in a lifetime opportunity to…

28 Jun

10 Lakshadweep islands may go underwater in next 30 yrs: IIT study

editor0 CommentsIndia10 islands, IIT Kharagpur, Lakshadweep islands

A study conducted by ocean engineering scientists at IIT Kharagpur shows that 10 islands among the 36 islands of Lakshadweep archipelago might have more than 60 percent land loss in the next 30 years because of the continuous and extreme rise of seawater level in the last 15 years. The study published in the current issue of international magazine Elsevier (Regional Studies in Marine Science), has been posted by the Department of Science and Technology on its website. It was conducted on the ten most vulnerable islands of the archipelago and shows that there will be 70 percent to 80…

28 Jun

25% of youth, 50% of 45+ vaccinated in Delhi

editor0 CommentsCovid-19Covid-19, Delhi, Vaccine

25 per cent of the youth in Delhi has been vaccinated with a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine while the primer dose immunisation among the age group of 45+ years has reached 50 per cent. The development has come after a record vaccination of 2,07,559 people was done, out of which more than 1.5 lakh doses were administered to the youth. 73, 29,652 people have been given vaccine doses in Delhi. Of them, more than 56 lakh people have received the first dose and more than 17 lakh people have received both the shots of two-dose regimen Covid-19 vaccines. The…

27 Jun

‘Never Imagined in Dreams’: President Kovind Bows, Touches Ground Upon Reaching Native Village in UP

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President Ram Nath Kovind reached his native village Paraunkh, around 75 km from Kanpur city, in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday afternoon, for the first time since assuming office. Upon landing at a helipad near his village, Kovind touched the ground to pay tributes to his birthplace. “I’d never imagined even in my dreams that an ordinary boy like me from a village would get privilege of discharging responsibilities of the highest office of the country. But our democratic system has made it possible, said Kovind at Jan Abhinandan Samaroh in Kanpur Dehat. President Kovind was flanked by UP chief minister…

27 Jun

Wooing Chirag? RJD to celebrate Ram Vilas Paswan’s birth anniversary on July 5

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Amid signs of chill in LJP leader Chirag Paswan's ties with the BJP-led NDA, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday reached out to him for aligning with the Opposition, saying he can carry forward his father Ram Vilas Paswan''s legacy only by joining the "existential fight" against RSS ideologue M S Golwalkar's thoughts. Experts believe, RJD's decision to celebrate the birth anniversary of LJP founder and former union minister (late) Ram Vilas Paswan on the same day as RJD's foundation day, July 5, can have a far fetched impact on Bihar's politics. RJD's decision has assumed more political significane now…

27 Jun

Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao to Hold an All-party Meeting on Dalit Empowerment

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Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar will hold a meeting with all-party leaders to prepare guidelines for the CM Dalit Empowerment Scheme at Pragati Bhavan on Sunday. The Chief Minister invited all Dalit public representatives, Dalit MPs, MLAs and MLCs to participate in the meeting which is likely to last about three hours. The Chief Minister contacted CPM and CPI party's state secretaries Chada Venkat Reddy, Tammineni Veerabhadram over the phone requesting to send their senior Dalit leaders to the meeting. Opposition parties, including Congress and BJP floor leaders and AIMIM, would participate in the meeting. KCR asked Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar,…

27 Jun

Vaccination along with safety measures are necessary when it comes to fighting the Delta Plus: WHO

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"Vaccination plus masks, because just a vaccine is not enough with 'Delta.' We need to make an effort over a short period of time, otherwise there would be a lockdown," Vujnovic said on the Soloviev Live YouTube show. She explained that vaccination is essential because it lowers the probability of spreading the virus and lowers the risks of severe disease. However, "additional measures" will probably be required as well, Vujnovic warned. Earlier in this month, the WHO included the Delta variant in its list of coronavirus variants of concern as the strain had become prevalent and has caused a resurgence…