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India achieved highest-ever monthly exports in December 2021: Goyal

04 Jan 2022

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Monday said that India has achieved its highest-ever monthly exports of USD 37 billion in December 2021, registering a jump of 37% from figures of December 2020. The minister was addressing a press conference in Delhi. “India has achieved the highest...

AMID OMICRON SURGE, 40 LAKH TEENAGERS GET JABBED

04 Jan 2022

Amidst the scare of Omicron, vaccination for the age group of 15-18 years has started nationwide. Teens registered in the Co-WIN portal for being administered with Covaxin, even as Delhi reported 4,099 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. More than 40 lakh children in the 15-18-year age group...

KASHI VISHWANATH DHAM GETS OVER 5 LAKH VISITORS ON 1 JANUARY

03 Jan 2022

Over five lakh devotees visited the Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi on New Year’s Day. This came weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the newly-constructed Kashi Vishwanath Dham. The local administration in Varanasi had not expected such an unprecedented number of devotees. At...

Over 7.6 lakh aged 15-18 years register for vaccination

03 Jan 2022

Over 7.6 lakh beneficiaries in the 15-18 age group have registered themselves on the CoWIN portal for Covid-19 vaccination, which will start from 3 January, Monday, onwards. The data on CoWIN dashboard is reflecting the registration of 7,65,427 beneficiaries of the said age group by 11 pm. The registrations for...

MAJOR SPIKE IN COVID CASES, BUT OXYGEN DEMAND NEGLIGIBLE

03 Jan 2022

Delhi registered 3,194 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, thus witnessing the highest single-day rise in cases since 20 May 2021. With this, the positivity rate in the national capital has gone up to 4.59%, which too is the highest since 20 May 2021. The national capital also witnessed one death...

S. AFRICA PASSED OMICRON PEAK WITH NO MAJOR SPIKE IN DEATHS

01 Jan 2022

A study out of South Africa found that the country may have already passed the peak of the Omicron-fuelled surge in cases of the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, with data suggesting the variant has not caused a corresponding jump in hospitalisations and deaths, the Hill reported. The first case...

SRI LANKA WILL GIVE STRATEGIC OIL COMPLEX TO INDIA ON LEASE

01 Jan 2022

Sri Lanka had agreed to sign a new deal with the Indian government to lease out one of its strategically important World War II era oil tank farms for 50 years in the eastern port district of Trincomalee. Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister, Udaya Gammanpila told reporters on Friday that the...

CASES SURGE AS OMICRON STARTS REPLACING DELTA

01 Jan 2022

With the Union Health Ministry noting a surge in Covid-19 cases across the country, official sources have said that the reason behind the spike is the Omicron variant which has started replacing its predecessor Delta in India and the world. According to Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, in the latest...

Political parties want elections to be conducted on time: CEC

31 Dec 2021

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra said on Thursday that all political parties in Uttar Pradesh met the poll panel and urged that Assembly elections should be held on time following all Covid-19 protocols. Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Chandra said that there would be no delay in conducting...

EIGHT DISTRICTS REPORTING A WEEKLY TPR OF 10%, 6 STATES CAUSING CONCERN

31 Dec 2021

India reported 13,154 new Covid-19 cases and 268 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. The tally of Omicron Covid-19 variant cases in the country has gone up to 961 with maximum cases coming from Delhi (263) and Maharashtra (252). With this, the country’s...

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