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Gujarat-based Zydus Cadila’s three-dose Covid-19 vaccine was on Friday granted emergency use authorisation for use in adults and children above 12 years, making it potentially the first vaccine to be administered to the adolescent…

Shimla, Aug 20 (UNI) Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting-cum Sports and Youth welfare, Anurag Thakur said that the central government was doing its best to help the suffering mankind and all sorts of help would be provided to…

Chandigarh, Aug 20 (UNI) Reacting sharply to the Punjab BJP leaders joining the Akali Dal Badal in large numbers, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken the remote control of the SAD-BJP in his hands.…

Chandigarh, Aug 20 (UNI) Senior BJP leaders, including former minister Anil Joshi, on Friday joined the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) here after quitting their parent party in support of farmers and their cause. The leaders were welcomed into…

New Delhi, Aug 20 (UNI) Parliamentarians on Friday paid floral tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 77th birth anniversary. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Congress in Lok…

New Delhi, Aug 20 (UNI) The Lok Sabha elections of 2024 is the ultimate goal of the Opposition, interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Friday urging parties to rise above their differences as she addressed a meeting of top…

Washington, Aug 21 (UNI/Sputnik) The Taliban have assured the United States that they will not impede people from accessing the Kabul airport nor interfere with US operations, State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters. "The…

Nanded, Aug 20 (UNI) “It is the first responsibility of the state to prove the social backwardness of the Maratha community first. And it is the responsibility of the Center to change the phrase 'rare and inaccessible' and give reservation…

Indirectly suggesting that opposition leaders focus just on wooing Muslims, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said they would rather wear “topis” and say “mubarakbaad” than organise a Kumbh Mela. Replying to a…

The Punjab and Haryana High Court late on Thursday ordered immediate release of Punjab’s former DGP Punjab Sumedh Singh Saini, just over 24 hours after he was arrested by the state Vigilance Bureau in a corruption case. The detailed…

Calling former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Atal Bihari Vajpayee “ideal leaders of Indian democracy”, Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said that those in the ruling party as well as those in the…

PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC Party held a youth convention in Shopian district of South Kashmir on Thursday, signaling fresh efforts to rejuvenate its political activities and outreach programmes. Party sources said the youth convention was the…

Dharamshala, Aug 19 (UNI) Kangra police have arrested a Ladohri resident at Sadwan falling under Nurpur police station in this district on Thursday after hundreds of intoxicating capsules were recovered from his possession. A case has been…

New Delhi, Aug 19 (UNI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh while launching the fifth edition of "Defence India startup challenge " said India needs to be self-reliant in the field of defence, in the changing global security scenario as dilemma…

New Delhi, Aug 19 (UNI) In a move that will further boost exports from the country, the government would soon come up with the interest equalization scheme offering pre and post shipment credit. "Interest equalization is at advanced stage…

Srinagar, Aug 20 (UNI) An encounter broke out between militants and security forces in the south Kashmir district of Pulwama on Friday, police said. Acting on specific information about the presence of militants, troops of Rashtriya Rifles…

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini on Wednesday night as he went to join an investigation in connection with a disproportionate assets case registered against him on August 2. Reports, which could not be…

J&K POLICE on Wednesday took action against a Station House Officer a day after police personnel led by him assaulted over a dozen journalists while they were covering the Muharram procession in Srinagar. “DGP J&K Dilbagh…

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the implementation of National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm (NMEO-OP) — a new Centrally sponsored scheme with a special focus on the Northeast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This comes less…

The Allahabad High Court has said that the future of India to a “large extent” will depend on the well-being of the river Ganga, and that it is “imperative that every effort should be made to revive the river and make it pollution-free”.…