NEW DELHI: The government has made a provision for every citizen to generate a Health ID free of cost and over 14 crore such IDs have been created till the first week of December, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. The creation of Health IDs is voluntary, […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called for united efforts to shape global norms for emerging technologies like social media and cryptocurrencies so that they are used to “empower democracy, not to undermine it”. In a virtual address at the Summit for Democracy hosted by US President Joe Biden, Modi said India would […]
NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus tally climbed to 3,46,74,744 with the addition of 8,503 infections in a day, while the number of active cases rose to 94,943, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll mounted to 4,74,735 with the addition of 624 new fatalities, according to the data updated at […]
NEW DELHI: The Health Ministry in coordination with the agencies concerned should assess the requirement of vaccine booster shots to tackle different variants of the coronavirus, a parliamentary committee has recommended. Taking note of the threat posed by the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs recommended that the Ministry of […]
SRINAGAR: SCFA Bandipora beat DP Dhar FA by 4-2 goals in their league match of ongoing NIFF Youth Football League 2021 played here at Synthetic Turf Football Stadium on Friday. Aqib Ayaz of SCFA Bandipora scored the hat trick for his team and he was adjudged as Player of the match. With this win SCFA […]
Last rites to be performed with full military honours today Coonoor (TN): Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, and military personnel among others on Thursday paid floral tributes to Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others killed in an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash near here […]
Coonoor: When an Army official in severe distress asked for “some water,” from him, A Sivakumar had no idea the man was the country’s top soldier and its first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, who would possibly later succumb to injuries sustained in a helicopter crash in the vicinity. Sivakumar, a social […]
Coonoor/New Delhi: The black box of the military helicopter that crashed near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu killing Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and 12 others was retrieved on Thursday, a critical piece of evidence in the investigation by a tri-services inquiry announced by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Parliament. As the minister said in […]
Srinagar: People of Baramulla in north Kashmir have lost more than anyone else in chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat’s death as he had close connection with them and loved them, general officer commanding of the Army’s Chinar Corps, Lt Gen D P Pandey said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters at Baramulla after paying […]
New Delhi: The government is set to begin the process soon to appoint the next Chief of Defence Staff with Army Chief Gen MM Naravane emerging as the front-runner for the top post that fell vacant following the demise of Gen Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash. The move by the government comes even as […]