As the protests against farm laws around borders points of Delhi have been on for over a month now, many protesting farmers have also lost their lives fighting the bitter cold. Two protesting farmers – one from Punjab and another from Kaithal in Haryana – died of cardiac arrest at the Tikri-Bahadurgarh border in the …
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According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), drinking alcohol at home or year-end parties won’t be a good idea since it is going to get very cold. In its latest impact-based advisory, the IMD said “severe” cold wave is expected over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and northern Rajasthan from 28 December and there is increased likelihood of various illnesses …
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The Tamil Nadu government has banned New Year revelries on beaches, hotels, clubs and resorts on the night of December 31 and January 1, 2021 as part of efforts to prevent the spread of coronavirus. According to an official statement, the public will not be allowed to enter beaches and no midnight revelries would be allowed on beach roads, restaurants, …
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Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India, is expecting to get emergency approval for market authorisation by the end of December. Poonawalla said that once the approval is received, vaccination drive in India can be started by January 2021. He also added that close to 60 crore people will get vaccinated by October next year, post which normal life …
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The COVID-19 vaccine will be made available to people free of cost to people in Kerala, chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. “No one will be charged for the vaccine. This is the stand of the government,” Vijayan said in Kannur. Kerala is the latest to announce free of cost COVID-19 vaccine for its people. States, including Tamil Nadu and Madhya …
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Khalistani separatists desecrated Mahatma Gandhi’s statue during a protest organised by Sikh-American youths in support of farmers protesting farm laws in India. Hundreds of Sikhs from in and around Greater Washington DC area, Maryland and Virginia, along with many from other states like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina, on Saturday carried out a car rally …
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A mother of five children was reportedly gangraped by 17 men who held her husband hostage in Jharkhand’s Dumka district, some 300 kilometres from state capital Ranchi. The woman had lodged a complaint in the police station. An FIR was lodged on Wednesday against 17 persons, including one known to the survivor. Representattional Image The crime took place in an …
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Union minister Raosaheb Danve has claimed that China and Pakistan were behind the ongoing protests by farmers, who are seeking repeal of three new farm laws. He also alleged that Muslims were earlier misled over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), but as those efforts did not succeed, now farmers were being told that …
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Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume, is close to signing a supply contract with the Indian government and is expected to fix the price at Rs 250 per dose of the vaccine, according to a Reuters report citing Business Standard. The government is pinning its hopes for mass supply on Serum Institute, which lodged the …
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A group of 25 Muslim men have been serving langar (community kitchen) over the past few days to farmers protesting against the Centre’s contentious new farm laws at Delhi’s Singhu border. The team of the Muslim Federation of Punjab, led by Faaroqi Mubeen, say they have arrived at the Singhu border to “serve the farmers who feed everyone”. “The ‘langar’ …
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