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Finance Ministry pitches for 24×7 vaccination to revive growth
IPA Webdesk The Finance Ministry has proposed vaccination of 70 crore people by the end of September and suggested holding 24×7 vaccination for the next couple of months to quicken the vaccination coverage. This is absolutely essential for regaining the country’s economic growth momentum, the ministry highlighted. The ministry...
Studies show Delta variant can infect despite vaccination
IPA Webdesk Separate studies by AIIMS Delhi and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have revealed that he ‘delta’ variant of COVID-19 – the version first detected in India in October last year – is capable of infecting people even after they have received both doses of the...
Bengali filmmaker-poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta dies at 77
IPA Webdesk Renowned Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta died at the age of 77 on Thursday morning. He was suffering from a kidney ailment. Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who was also a celebrated poet, had won several National Awards for his contribution to Bengali cinema. Mourning Buddhadeb Dasgupta on Twitter, West Bengal...
Delhi records 44 degrees temperature
IPA Webdesk The maximum temperature breached the 44 degrees Celsius mark in parts of Delhi on Wednesday, even as winds carrying dust from Rajasthan pushed the capital’s air quality to the “very poor” category, according to India Meteorological Department. However, “widespread rainfall” is likely to bring down the mercury...
Is Sachin Pilot next in line?
IPA Webdesk With Jitin Prasada quitting Congress and joining the BJP, all eyes are now on Sachin Pilot, who had led a revolt against the Congress leadership in Rajasthan one year ago. His demands remain unmet as yet. Sachin Pilot’s rebellion against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his...
Nandan Nilekani responds to new tax site glitches
IPA Webdesk Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has responded to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s tweet about technical snags in the revamped income tax portal, saying his company “regrets these initial glitches” and the system will stabilise in a few days. “The new e-filing portal will ease the filing process and...
World Bank prunes Indian economy growth to 8.3% in 2021
The World Bank on Tuesday slashed its 2021-22 GDP growth forecast for the Indian economy to 8.3 per cent from 10.1 per cent estimated in April, saying economic recovery is being hampered by the devastating second wave of coronavirus infections. It projected a 7.5 per cent economic growth in...
Huge Internet outage, Amazon among affected sites
Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” according to its website. Most of Fastly’s...
FM flags glitches on new IT site
IPA Webdesk Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today tagged IT giant Infosys and and its co-founder Nandan Nilekani after receiving a large number of complaints from users on the new e-filing website of the Income Tax Department which was launched on Monday. “The much awaited e-filing portal 2.0 was launched...
UP relaxes lockdown in all districts
IPA Webdesk With active COVID-19 cases below the 600-mark in all 75 districts of the state, the Uttar Pradesh government today decided to give relaxations in the COVID-19 curfew. “There will be relaxation in coronavirus curfew in all the districts of the state from Wednesday onwards, from 7 am...
Supreme Court stand gave Modi no option but to change vaccine policy
The change in the Centre’s Covid vaccination policy, announced by PM Modi in his address to the nation, comes a week after the government faced some tough questions from the three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice DY Chandrachud, which had on May 31 flagged “various flaws”...
Union minister says liquor is like tonic
Union Union Minister of State for Steel Faggan Singh Kulaste on Sunday described liquor as a tonic which is important during Covid-19. He added that this is the reason why a large number of people consume liquor. Kulaste in an event in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla said, “When lockdown was...
Twitter Seeks More Time to Comply with New IT Rules
Micro-blogging site Twitter has reportedly approached the government seeking more time to comply with the new IT rules. According to sources, the social media platform has informed the government that it intends to comply with the rules but needs more time due to the pandemic. “Twitter has written to...
14 Dead In Fire At Pune Sanitiser Firm
While 20 workers were rescued, bodies of 14 have been recovered so far. Pune: A massive fire has broken out at a sanitizer-manufacturing unit here on Monday. Fourteen employees confirmed dead and several are missing. A big contingent of the local fire department was present on the spot...
Mumbai Police’s Tweet On Covid Safety Has Star Cast
The tweet by Mumbai Police soon went viral on social media. Mumbai: Mumbai police deployed humour in its tweets along with a dose of Tom and Jerry, the legendary cat and mouse cartoon strip, to ask people to adhere to COVID-19 norms in the metropolis, especially wearing masks in...
Gangster Chhota Rajan Dies Of Covid At AIIMS In Delhi: Sources
Chhota Rajan, 61, was admitted to hospital on April 26 New Delhi: Gangster Chhota Rajan has died at Delhi AIIMS hospital, sources said on Friday. He was being treated for Covid. Chhota Rajan, 61, was admitted to hospital on April 26. He had been in the high security Tihar jail in...
Centre Warns Mamata of Stern Action Over Violence
IPA Webdesk The Home Ministry, under Amit Shah, has pulled up the Bengal government. (File) New Delhi: On a day West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee was sworn in for a third term after a decisive win against the BJP, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs shot off another...
BJP’s Tejasvi Surya’s Expose On Covid Bed Scam Takes Communal Turn
IPA Webdesk Tejasvi Surya is seen reading out a list of names of people posted in the Covid facility Bengaluru: After BJP MP Tejasvi Surya’s big revelation on what he called a “bed-blocking scandal” in Bengaluru, blaming his own party-controlled civic body, a video has exposed shocking communal comments...
