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02 Aug

SpiceHealth’s mobile testing laboratory

editor0 CommentsCovid-19, IndiaRT - PCR, Spice Health

The first mobile testing laboratory has been launched by SpiceHealth in Guwahati to conduct Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and Rapid Antigen tests. SpiceHealth has partnered with National Health Mission, Assam to set-up the facility in Guwahati. The mobile lab will be stationed at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium whereas the sample collection set-up will be at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport. SpiceHealth operates 23 labs and collection centers spread across ten cities in India. The Company operates seven vaccination centers in five states. SpiceHealth has emerged as the fastest growing diagnostic lab in the country having conducted 3.5 million…

01 Aug

Border dispute between Assam and Mizoram to be resolved

editor0 CommentsAssam, India, Mizoram, PoliticalBorder dispute

Assam and Mizoram have been at odds over the boundary for decades, but Monday's clashes flared up over an alleged construction by Mizoram in the disputed 198-square-mile stretch on the inter-state border Lailapur under Dhalai of Cachar district in southern Assam and Vairengte in Kolasib district of northern Mizoram. Seven people, including six Assam Police personnel, were killed. On the same issue the Mizoram Chief Minister said on Twitter "As per telephonic discussion with Union Home Minister and Assam Chief Minister, we agreed to resolve the Mizoram-Assam border issue amicably through meaningful dialogue," . According to sources The Centre has told…

01 Aug

PM Modi is expected to preside over the meeting of the UN Security Council on August 9

editor0 CommentsIndia, PoliticalPrime Minister Narendra Modi

Syed Akbaruddin, India's former envoy to UN, said that For the first time in over 75 years, Indian political leadership has invested in presiding over an event of the 15-member UN body and this depicts that the country's leadership wants to lead from the front. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the first Indian PM to preside over a meeting during India's presidency of theUnited Nations Security Council. According to sources Akbaruddin, who is a former permanent representative of India to UN, said, "Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister, who has decided to preside over…

31 Jul

BJP leader Babul Supriyo quits politics

editor0 CommentsIndia, PoliticalBabul Supriyo, BJP

BJP leader from West Bengal, Babul Supriyo, has hinted at quitting active politics. Calling himself a team player, the MP from Asansol in his Facebook post said that one doesn't have to be in politics to do social work. "If you want to do social work, you can do it without being in politics," he wrote. Clearing the air that he may join any other party, mainly the Trinamool Congress which is arch-rival of the BJP in WestBengal, the banker-turned-singer-turned-politician said, "Alvida. Am not going to any other party - TMC, Congress, CPIM, nowhere. I am confirming that nobody has…

31 Jul

Tokyo Olympics: PV Sindhu loses to Tai Tzu in semifinals, to fight for bronze now

editor0 CommentsIndia, SportsPV Sindhu, Tokyo Olympics

Reigning world champion P V Sindhu's hopes of securing India's first-ever Olympic gold in badminton came crashing down as she slumped to a straight-game defeat against world no.1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei in the women's singles semifinals here on Saturday. However, the 26-year-old silver-medallist from the Rio Games remained in the hunt for bronze and will be competing against China's He Bing Jiao in the third-place play-off at Musashino Forest Plaza on Sunday. Our ace shuttler @Pvsindhu1 will be in action in some time. Let's wish her all the best with our encouraging messages. Stay tuned for more…

30 Jul

Over 3.8 lakh people without photo ID documents vaccinated through Co-WIN

editor0 CommentsCovid-19, Health, IndiaCo-WIN

As many as 3.83 lakh people without any photo ID documents have been vaccinated through Co-WIN till July 26, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar said on Friday. All beneficiaries who have received vaccines in India are registered on the Co-WIN portal, she said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha "As of 26th July 2021, a total of 3.83 lakh persons without any photo ID documents have been vaccinated through Co-WIN," she said. The Centre has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to facilitate vaccination of eligible beneficiaries who do not possess the prescribed photo…

30 Jul

PV Sindhu enters semifinals of Tokyo Olympics

editor0 CommentsIndia, SportsPV Sindhu, Tokyo Olympics

Reigning world champion PV Sindhu kept India's hopes of winning a first-ever Olympic gold in badminton alive as she reached the semifinals of women's singles with a fighting straight-game win over world no 5 Japanese Akane Yamaguchi here on Friday. The 26-year-old Indian, who won a silver in the 2016 Rio Olympics, defended brilliantly and rode on her attack to outclass the fourth-seeded Yamaguchi 21-13 22-20 in a 56-minute quarterfinal clash at the Musashino Forest Plaza here. She will next face the winner of the other quarterfinal between Thailand's Ratchanok Inthanon and Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying. The sixth-seeded Indian…

30 Jul

Was asked to change my ‘ring dress’ just a minute before my Olympic pre-quarters: Mary Kom

editor0 CommentsIndiaMary Kom, Tokyo Olympics

A day after losing her Round of 32 bout against Columbia’s Ingrit Valencia, India’s boxer MC Mary Kom is seeking an explanation about why she was asked to change the ring dress a minute before her quarterfinal bout. Boxing great MC Mary Kom made a heart-breaking exit from Tokyo Olympics after losing to Ingrit Victoria Valencia of Colombia in the battle of former Olympic medallists on Thursday. It was one tight bout between two mothers. And the split decision (3:2) goes in the favour of Valencia. “Surprising..can anyone explain what will be a ring dress. I was ask to change…

30 Jul

Supreme Court weighs in, Jharkhand HC orders SIT probe into hit-and-run death of Dhanbad judge

editor0 CommentsIndiaINDIA, judiciary

A Jharkhand additonal district judge, who had been hearing some “sensitive cases”, was killed in an apparent road accident during his morning walk in Dhanbad on Wednesday. The Jharkhand high court on Thursday pulled up the state government over “delay” in filing of the FIR and said this incident and another — the alleged murder of an advocate in the Tamar area of Ranchi recently — were a direct attack on the “justice dispensation system.” Bar associations of the Supreme Court, the HC and Dhanbad courts demanded a CBI probe into the case. CCTV footage that has surfaced online shows…

29 Jul

Centre is not discussing Pegasus revelations in Parliament as it has a lot to hide, says Congress

editor0 CommentsIndia, PoliticalBJP, RAHULGANDHI, Trinamul Congress

Both houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day on Wednesday as the opposition got united and demanded a debate on the Pegasus spyware issue in the presence of the prime minister or the home minister. They also asked for a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the matter.Hardening their stance against the government, leaders of 14 opposition parties met and decided to submit similar adjournment notices on the Pegasus spyware issue. Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) was not present in the meeting.Talking to reporters in the presence of leaders of 13 other opposition parties after the meeting, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi…