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OXFORD VACCINE SHOULD BE EFFECTIVE AGAINST NEW STRAIN: ASTRAZENECA CEO

28 Dec 2020

New Delhi: British pharmaceutical AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine has achieved a “winning formula” for efficacy, Pascal Soriot, CEO of the company said in an interview with a British newspaper. He also added that the vaccine should be effective against the new mutant strain of Covid-19 found...

DETENTION OF DANIEL PEARL MURDER ACCUSED STRUCK DOWN, US CONCERNED

26 Dec 2020

ISLAMABAD: The decision of Pakistan’s Sindh High Court (SHC) to strike down the preventive detention of the suspected kidnappers and killers of American journalist Daniel Pearl has raised eyebrows in the US. The US State Department has expressed serious concerns over the SHC order to end the nine-month-long preventive detention...

LEADERS ARE JOINING FARM PROTESTS FOR POLITICAL MILEAGE: NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR

26 Dec 2020

NEW DELHI: As the farmer protests rage on at Delhi’s border, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday released instalments of more than Rs 18,000 crore under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme to over nine crore beneficiary farmer families. Under the PM-Kisan scheme, a financial benefit of Rs 6,000...

PM MODI DEFENDS FARM LAWS, ATTACKS OPPOSITION FOR MISLEADING FARMERS

26 Dec 2020

New Delhi: Amid the farmers’ agitation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday transferred more than Rs 18,000 crore to over nine crore beneficiary farmer families with the push of a button. On the occasion, while defending the new farm laws, PM Modi said that some people in the Opposition were...

Even RSS chief would be called terrorist if he disagrees with PM: Rahul

25 Dec 2020

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday went to meet President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted him a memorandum, which the party claimed has been signed by 2 crore farmer surging the government to take back the three farm laws passed by the Narendra Modi government. The Congress delegation...

Cases were bogus: Som on Yogi govt withdrawing cases against accused MLAs

25 Dec 2020

The Yogi Adityanath government has moved to withdraw cases against BJP leaders, including three MLAs, who are accused of engineering and fanning the flames of riots in UP’s Muzaffarnagar village in September 2013. The accused in the case filed at the Shikheda police station include BJP leaders Sangeet Som, Suresh...

PM MODI TO INTERACT WITH FARMERS TODAY, TOP MINISTERS TO CAMP ACROSS COUNTRY

25 Dec 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers are leaving no stone unturned to reach out to farmers across the country with a message that the new farm laws are only meant to benefit them. Keeping this in mind, PM Modi will interact with farmers from six states on...

As world panics over 2nd variant, 3rd strain from South Africa found in UK

24 Dec 2020

Even as the panic over the second variant of coronavirus is still in the air, a third variant has now been detected in the UK, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Wednesday. Announcing the development at a press briefing where he outlined further restrictions in south and east England, Hancock...

22 UK passengers test Covid positive, chaos reported at airports

24 Dec 2020

At least 22 people who came to India from the UK in the past few days have tested positive for Covid-19 amid alarm over a mutant strain of coronavirus in Britain that is believed to be more contagious. Eleven people who came from or via the UK have tested positive...

SUCCESSFUL DDC POLLS A RESOUNDING SLAP TO TERRORISTS: RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD

24 Dec 2020

New Delhi: Following the successful District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the top leadership of the BJP has come out hailing the “victory of democracy” in the Union Territory that has long been plagued by terrorism. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has called it a resounding slap...

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