NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Indian Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers on Saturday, within two days of the country achieving a key milestone of administering 100 crore doses of the jabs, official sources said. During the meeting, Modi discussed various issues including furthering the vaccine research, sources said. Representatives from seven vaccine makers — Serum […]
Mumbai: Judicial infrastructure is important for improving access to justice, but it is baffling to note that its improvement and maintenance was being carried out in an ad-hoc and unplanned manner in the country, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana said on Saturday. Noting that an effective judiciary can help in the growth of the […]
London: HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier-led Carrier Strike Group’s major port stop in Mumbai is the UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt in action, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in India on Saturday. The minister, who arrived in Mumbai from New Delhi, said her visit is aimed at forging stronger security and defence links with India, the […]
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to rename the Faizabad railway station, a tweet by the office of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday. It will be called the Ayodhya Cantt railway station, the tweet said, adding that the decision was taken by the Chief Minister. Earlier in 2018, the Yogi Adityanath government […]
New Delhi: Identification of an accused in the court by a witness who has seen him for the first time during the crime is a weak piece of evidence, especially when there is a large time gap between the dates of the incident and recording of his evidence, the Supreme Court has said. The observation […]
BHOPAL: Senior Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh, on Saturday alleged Aryan Khan, arrested by the NCB in connection with a drugs case in Mumbai, is being victimised because he is the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Taking a swipe, BJP said Singh was playing the politics of “appeasement”. Aryan Khan (23) […]
NEW DELHI: India-Bangladesh relations today are deeper than any other strategic partnership and a “role model” for ties between two neighbouring countries, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Saturday. In his remarks at the ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh Conclave: 2021’ on ‘Humanitarian, Political and Diplomatic Facets of the 1971 War’, Shringla also lauded the role […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 15,786 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 3,41,43,236, while the active cases have declined to 1,75,745, the lowest in 232 days, according to the Union health ministry’s data updated on Friday. The death toll has climbed to 4,53,042 with 231 daily fatalities, according to the data […]
NEW DELHI: Hailing the crossing of the 100-crore vaccine doses milestone, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India’s vaccination programme was science-born, science-driven and science-based. He asserted that there was “VIP culture” in the drive. In an address to the nation, the prime minister urged people to keep following Covid protocol during the festival […]
NEW DELHI: More than 104.5 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses have been provided to states and union territories so far, the Union health ministry said on Friday. Over 11.65 crore balance and unutilised vaccine doses still available with states/UTs, it said. The vaccination drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines, advance visibility of […]