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To bring transgender community in the forefront of the society, the Kerala government has announced a slew of programmes, including extension of scholarship for third gender students and financial aid for legally married transcouples. Announcing the initiatives, Minister for Social Justice K K Shylaja said the Social Justice Department has sanctioned Rs six lakh for …

Amid a sharp fall in India’s daily count of Covid-19 cases, the Ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) on Wednesday released data, comparing the country’s new cases per million population in the last seven days with those in some of the world’s worst-affected countries in the same duration.  The list of countries include the United States and Brazil, the …

Farmers protesting at the Delhi borders against the Centre’s new farm laws today clanged thalis and raised slogans as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’ was broadcasting this morning. This was PM Modi’s 72nd and 2020’s last edition of his monthly radio programme. NDTV The protest took place at three spots today — Singhu border, Punjab’s …

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 …

While India is expecting a rollout of COVID-19 vaccine by January, the Indian drug regulator is looking at the UK, which sources believe may give its nod to the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine next week, before deciding on giving emergency use authorisation to the Serum Institute that is manufacturing the shots in the country. Once the UK drug regulator gives its …

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 past 24 hours, according to …

BCCL In India too, several people who had returned from the UK recently have tested positive for COVID-19 and many are said to the infected by the new variant of the virus. British authorities have said the new coronavirus variant appears more contagious and may have led to a spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths, though the new variant is not yet …

The UK has detected two cases of another new variant of coronavirus, the health secretary Matt Hancock says. The cases in London and north west England are contacts of people who travelled to South Africa, where the variant was discovered. File Travel restrictions with South Africa have been imposed. Anyone who has travelled there in the past fortnight, and anyone they …

For the past few days, thousands of trucks and their drivers have been stuck on the roads, on both sides of the UK’s border, due to the sudden travel restrictions imposed there because of the spread of the new strain of COVID-19. The truck drivers, who are from across Europe, were eying to reach their homes before Christmas, but that …

Though the new strain of the COVID-19 virus that first surfaced in the UK has not been reported in India so far, there is a fear that the failure to trace all those with recent travel history to the country may result in the virus, which is more infectious getting silently transmitted. The government had recently issued SOPs for those …