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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

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…

08 Jun

AIIMS Delhi starts screening of children for Covaxin trials

editor0 CommentsNorth EastCoronavirus, covaxin, Covid-19

The trial on children has already started at AIIMS Patna to see if the Bharat Biotech jab is suitable for children. Participants would be given the vaccine after their screening report comes.The trial is to be conducted on 525 healthy volunteers. In the trial, the vaccine will be given by intramuscular route in two doses at day 0 and day 28. “The screening of children for conducting trial of Covaxin has started. Participants would be given the vaccine after their screening reports come,” Dr Sanjay Rai, Professor at the Centre for Community Medicine at AIIMS, said. India’s drug regulator had…

08 Jun

At 86K new cases, India’s daily count dips 1st time below 1L after 2 months

editor0 CommentsNorth EastCoronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, Covid-19, INDIA

India on Tuesday logged 86,498 new Covid infections in 24 hours, less than one lakh cases for the first time in past 66 days, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said. It is also the lowest number of cases since April 2 when the country logged 89,129 new cases. In the past 24-hour, 2,123 more people succumbed to the pandemic. On Monday, India had reported 1,00,636 cases, lowest spike since April 6. India’s overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,89,96,554 with 13,03,702 active cases and 3,51,309 deaths so far. Over the last few days, India’s fresh Covid…

07 Jun

PM Modi announces free vaccines for all from June 21 at govt hospitals, ration for poor till Diwali

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PM Modi has decided to take over the procurement of 25% of Covid vaccines earlier handed over to states, PM Narendra Modi said in his virtual address to the nation today, "India will defeat Corona,"PM Modi has said that the government would take back control of Covid-19 vaccination from the states and provide free vaccines to all in the next two weeks. The Centre is taking back total control of vaccination now, will be implemented in next two weeks. The Centre will give free vaccines to states for all above 18. From 21 June. He also announced the extension of…

07 Jun

Polling booths to be converted into vaccination centres in Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal

editor0 CommentsNorth Eastarvind kejriwal, Covid-19, Delhi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that he will turn polling booths into mass vaccination centres. Kejriwal addressed a press conference on Monday where he announced his mass vaccination campaign naming – ‘Jahan Vote, Wahan Vaccination’. Under this scheme, vaccination centres will be set up in polling booths in each Assembly Constituency of Delhi. The campaign will cover as many as 70 municipal wards every week, with an objective to administer the first dose to all the citizens above 45 years and above. However, people in 18-44 age group will not be covered under the scheme. The process has…

07 Jun

United States to hand over three MH-60 ‘Romeo’ multi-role choppers to India

editor0 CommentsNorth EastIndian Navy, United States

The Indian Navy is set to receive its first set of multi-role helicopters as America is set to hand over three MH-60 Romeo helicopters to the force in the United States in July. The first batch of Indian pilots has also reached the US for training on the helicopters which would be arriving in India next year in July. India and the US had signed over-Rs 16,000 crore deal to buy 24 MH-60 Romeo helicopters from Lockheed Martin in 2020 under fast. "The First batch of the Indian pilots has reached the US for training on the helicopters and we…

07 Jun

Red panda birth brings cheer in Darjeeling

editor0 CommentsNorth EastDarjeeling, red panda, zoo

At a time when death is all around during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Darjeeling town has witnessed what is being termed as a “birth of hope.” The “hope”, people said, came in the form of a red panda cub that was born at the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park (PNHZP) yesterday. The cub was born at the Zoo’s Topgey Dara breeding facility. “I am very happy to inform you that a red panda cub was born yesterday to its mother Prassana and father Kimbu. Both the mother and the cub are doing fine. This takes up the…