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03 Jun

Covid vaccination team was attacked by villagers in Maharashtra’s Palghar.

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The team had gone to spread awareness about coronavirus vaccine among tribals, but had to face a tough time. According to Palghar police, a team of doctors and health workers were brutally assaulted at Ganje-Jayshet village when they reached there to conduct Rapid Antigen Tests. Police PRO Sachin Navadkar said that the incident took place on Monday when a team of five personnel from Durvesh primary health centre went to Ganje village for a COVID-19 awareness programme. Villagers stopped the team, including doctors, from entering the village and beat them up, police said. Villagers also vandalised the team's jeep, two persons have been arrested…

02 Jun

Man arrested for killing wife for not being served salad

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A man was arrested in Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday after two days killing his wife and injuring his son for not being served salad with his meal, police said. Murli Singh, was caught by a police team after he was found hiding in a nearby jungle, they said. Police said,”The killing took place during dinner at the couple's house in Gogwan Jalalpur village under Babri police station area on Monday night.” Murli Singh attacked his wife Sudesh with a spade and their 20-year-old son Ajay, who sustained serious injuries as he tried to save her, they said. The criminal had…

02 Jun

Malala Yousafzai on going to university and ‘finally’ getting time to herself as she appears on cover of British Vogue

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Malala Yousafzai has said going to university “finally” gave her some time for herself. The activist and Nobel Prize laureate, 23, made the comments in an interview with British Vogue and features on the cover of the July issue of the magazine. She completed her philosophy, politics and economics degree at Oxford University last year. Discussing her time at university, she said: “I was excited about literally anything. Going to McDonald’s or playing poker with my friends or going to a talk or an event. British Vogue's Editor in Chief Edward Enninful took to his social media feeds to share…

02 Jun

Black fungus: Form policy on distribution of drug for treatment, Centre told

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The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the central government to prioritise younger people over older ones to give Amphotericin-B, a last-line drug used to treat mucormycosis that is in acute shortage across the country due to an unprecedented spike in cases. The direction comes a day after the court informed the Centre and Delhi government that they need to work out a distribution policy for the anti-fungal medicine and take the “cruel decision” of excluding a certain age group or class of people from receiving it owing to its current scarcity. Citing data it has obtained, the court said…

02 Jun

7 Dead, 7 Injured In Cylinder Blast In UP, 2 Houses Collapse

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Seven people died and 14 were injured after the roof of a two-storey building collapsed due to a cylinder blast in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district. The incident occurred when one of the families in the village was cooking. As many as 14 people were trapped under the collapsed roof. The villagers could rescue some of them and rushed them to the Public Health Centre in Nawabganj. Gonda Superintendent of Police Santosh Kumar Mishra said, "14 people were trapped after the roof of the house collapsed. Seven people have died including three children and two women." “We received a call about…

02 Jun

India welcomes 15 ventilators, 12000 tablets of Favipiravir from Iceland

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India on early Wednesday received a consignment of 15 ventilators, and 12000 tablets of Favipiravir from Iceland as the country combat the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic.The information about the consignment was shared by Arindam Bagchi, Spokesperson ministry of external affairs, through his Twitter handle. recorded a single-day rise of 1,27,510 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 51 days, taking the country's infection tally to 2,81,75,044, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Tuesday. India is currently dealing with a second COVID-19 wave that has swept through the nation, straining the country's health infrastructure and overburdening…

02 Jun

Chinese blogger jails for defaming soldiers killed in Galwan clash

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China was sentenced to eight months in jail for "defaming" Chinese soldiers killed in a clash with Indian troops at the Galwan Valley last year, official media here reported on Tuesday. Qiu Ziming, described by the state-run Global Times as an internet celebrity for having over 2.5 million followers, received an eight-month jail term on Monday, the daily reported. This was the first reported case of a suspect being charged after China passed a new law in 2018 which stipulates that it is illegal to defame the country's heroes and martyrs. Qiu, known as "Labixiaoqiu" online, was also ordered to…

01 Jun

PM Narendra Modi will chair a crucial meeting on Class 12 board examinations

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PM Narendra Modi will chair a crucial meeting on Class 12 board examinations today evening. PM Modi will be briefed on all possible options as a result of the extensive discussions with all states and other stakeholders, according to Government of India sources. After the Union Government has announced that the Class 12th board exams will be conducted compulsorily, several states have started announcing either the pattern in which board exams will be held or their tentative dates. The Prime Minister this evening is expected to discuss with the states how the exams will be conducted amid the ongoing Covid…

01 Jun

Doctors across the country observing ‘Black Day’ on 1st June

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Doctors across the country are observing a "Black Day" today in protest against the remarks made by yoga guru Baba Ramdev. The Federation of resident doctors' association (FORDA) issued a release in which it said that June 1 will be observed as 'Black Day' and the The association also urged the authorities to book Ramdev under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 for trying to create public unrest against the vaccination drive and harassing healthcare services personnel. Amidst the second wave of COVID-19, fraternity of doctors, the Corona Warriors has been striving hard to save dearest motherland against the deadly pandemic…

31 May

Bengal chief secretary retired, to act as chief adviser to CM: Mamata

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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to withdraw the Centre's order recalling state chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay. She made the request in a letter to the PM and said her government "is not releasing" the top bureaucrat. Bandyopadhyay's service was recently extended for three months so that he could continue to serve in the state as it faced the deadly coronavirus disease (Covid-19) crisis after "mutual written consultations" and "in accordance with the due process", the CM said. “The government of Bengal cannot release, and is not releasing, its chief secretary at this…