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09 Jun

What does India’s new vaccine policy actually mean? Read here

editor0 CommentsHealthcovid vaccine, Health, INDIA, new policy

PM Modi announced: "From 21 June, all adults over the age of 18 will be vaccinated [for] free,". "Whether it is the poor, the lower middle class, the middle class, or the upper middle class, under the central government programme, everyone will get free vaccines," He said. How has the policy changed? Prime Minister Modi's addressed the nation on TV, in which he talked about the history and logistics of vaccine programmes in India. This is where he made the announcement. Prime Minister Modi made a national TV address on the vaccination programme Under the earlier Covid vaccine policy, half…

09 Jun

Retired IAS Anup Chandra appointed Election Commissioner

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastelection commission, INDIA

President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed retired IAS officer Anup Chandra Pandey as Election Commissioner. The appointment restores the three-member commission to its full strength, which will now oversee the next set of crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand next year. Pandey, a 1984-batch Uttar Pradesh cadre officer, has been appointed to the post in the Election Commission with effect from the date he assumes the office. A notification in this regard was issued by Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice on Tuesday. Pandey will now be in the three-member panel of the Election…

09 Jun

Massive fire at Vaishnodevi shrine; no damages, pilgrimage running smoothly

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastfire at vaishnodevi shrine, INDIA, vaishnodevi

The cash counting hall of the Vaishnodevi Shrine was on Tuesday gutted in a massive fire that broke out in the afternoon. It is learnt that the fire started due to a short circuit in an air conditioner. The entire hall near the natural cave was reduced to ruins. Firemen rushed to the spot and succeeded in dousing the massive fire. No casualty has been reported. Chief executive officer of the Shrine Board, Ramesh Kumar, said that the fire has been controlled and there were no damages and that the pilgrimage is running smoothly. Pilgrimage to Vaishnodevi was suspended during…

09 Jun

India records over 92K Covid cases, 2,219 deaths in 24 hrs

editor0 CommentsNorth EastCoronavirus, Covid-19, ICMR, INDIA

India on Wednesday logged 92,596 new Covid infections in 24 hours, less than one lakh cases for the second straight day and 6,098 cases more than Tuesday, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. On June 8, India recorded 86,498 cases, lowest since April 2 when the country logged 89,129 new cases. In the past 24 hours, 2,219 more people succumbed to the pandemic. India’s overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,90,89,069 with 12,31,415 active cases and 3,53,528 deaths so far. After battling a brutal second wave for weeks, fresh Covid cases came down below the three…

09 Jun

Airtel’s new brand campaign reinforces India’s preference for network quality

editor0 CommentsBusinessairtel, INDIA, TECHNOLOGY, Telecom

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s leading communications solutions provider, today rolled out a new brand campaign to showcase the disproportionate customer preference for its world-class network and differentiated services. Watch the TVC here- https://youtu.be/hGuqEavJPVU As per data published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), 2 in every 3 new mobile customers choose Airtel over other networks during September 2020 – February 2021. During this period, over 25 mn customers joined the Airtel network, underscoring the strength of brand. Shashwat Sharma, Chief Marketing Officer, Bharti Airtel said: “We have one and only one guiding principle – customer obsession. And it’s…

09 Jun

Cong to hold protests on June 11 against fuel price hike

editor0 CommentsNorth EastINC, Indian National Congress

After easing of curbs, the principal opposition party, the Congress, has decided to take on the government on the issue of petrol price hike, after cornering the government on the shortage of vaccine, medical equipment and drugs. The regular petrol is already selling at more than Rs 100 per litre in Mumbai and some other parts of the country. Congress has decided to hold massive protests on June 11 across the country on all petrol pumps and will demand rollback of the prices. The Congress has alleged that the prices were static till the West Bengal polls, but after that,…

08 Jun

New Income Tax Website Faces Technical Glitches, Nirmala Sitharaman Tags Infosys, Nandan Nilekani on Twitter

editor0 CommentsBusinessBusiness, Indian government

The new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department was launched on Monday with a host of new features for taxpayers. The new URL http://incometax.gov.in replaced the long-existing http://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in, and it went live at 8:45 pm, the tax department said in a tweet. However, some users complained on social media that certain features were taking longer than usual to load in the new portal. Taking note of the same, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today tagged IT giant Infosys and its co-founder Nandan Nilekani after receiving a large number of complaints from users on the new e-filing website of the Income…

08 Jun

Govt confident of vaccinating all adults by Dec with estimated supply of 187 cr doses: Sources

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastcoronavirus vaccine, Covid-19, vaccination

Asserting that India is on track to vaccinate its entire adult population by December, top officials on Monday said a blueprint is in place to ensure a total supply of 187.2 crore doses by the year-end that would be enough for the country’s 94 crore 18-plus population. Refuting questions raised by some critics about the government’s vaccination strategy, they said while India will have 53.6 crore doses between January and July, the supply will zoom to 133.6 crore doses in the August-December period with more firms joining the supply chain and the existing ones ramping up their production. India is…

08 Jun

Vaccination certificate posting on social media could lead to fraud: Police

editor0 CommentsNorth EastCUTTACK, odisha, police

The Cuttack-Bhubaneswar commissionerate police asked the inoculated people not to share their vaccination certificates on social media by saying that the act of this nature could lead to cyber fraud. “Your personal information and some secret data used in the QR code in the certificate can help fraudsters cheat you”, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Cuttack, Prateek Singh, tweeted. The certificate carries the name, age, gender as well as vaccination details—the name of the vaccine, dates of the first and as well as the second dose and other important personal information that can be misused, the senior official said. Police had…

08 Jun

CM Mamata Banerjee holds press conference: Cancels West Bengal Madhyamik and Uchha Madhyamik board exams

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastboard exams, education, INDIA, Mamata Banerjee, west bengal

CM Mamata Banerjee during a press conference on Tuesday, cancelled West Bengal Class 10 Madhyamik board exams and the Class 12 Uchha Madhyamik board exams. Earlier, CM Banerjee had said that the Class 12 board exams would be conducted in the last week of July and Madhyamik or Class 10 board exams would be held in the second week of August. The decision to cancel the exams came after the public had given a stand against the conduction of board exams amidst the pandemic. The CM said that 79% of the 24000 emails that were received from the public were…