In focus, 21st Feb 2021, News & Stories from India

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21 Feb 2021

In focus, 21 Feb 2021

Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu attends a function on International Mother Language Day, in Hyderabad, Sunday, February 21, 2021. (PTI)

Naidu bats for use of mother tongue as medium of instruction at primary level

He also wanted gradual increase in the use of indigenous languages in higher and technical education

21 Feb 2021 7:35 PM

Staff of Government ENT Hospital gets administered with COVID Vaccine during the vaccination drive at the Hospital premises in Visakhapatnam. (AA Image/P Narasimha Murthy)

Need to increase pace of vaccinations: Health Ministry tells states

While some states are carrying out vaccination twice a week some others are carrying out four or more than four times a week

21 Feb 2021 7:20 PM

Entrepreneurs Pankaj Dhir Singh Chundawat and Sandip Ghosh are busy building their business empire

The duo are showing new heights of entrepreneur skills

21 Feb 2021 6:29 PM

Tips to follow to produce a flawless piece

Tips to improve your writing skills

Reading more, developing outline and avoiding plagiarism are few tips that falls under the skills

21 Feb 2021 6:01 PM

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad

Accomplish your entrepreneurial dreams at EDII, Ahmedabad

This National Resource Institute announces admissions for Entrepreneurship Education, Research, Training academic session (2021-2023)

21 Feb 2021 5:37 PM

A health worker collects swab samples of passengers for COVID-19 test at Dadar Railway platform, in Mumbai. (PTI)

New curbs announced in Pune amid rise in COVID-19 cases

Schools, colleges and private coaching classes will remain closed till February 28

21 Feb 2021 3:13 PM

On February 15, the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed two versions of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for these vaccines to be rolled out globally through COVAX. (Photo: Serum Institute of India)

Poonawalla urges countries to be patient as Serum directed to prioritise India's needs

The vaccines are produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India

21 Feb 2021 12:33 PM

Anita Katyal | BJP for Sourav as Bengal CM; Cong farmer cell has no chief

The BJP has apparently put together a copious dossier on Ganguly and his family’s business interests in its effort to persuade him

21 Feb 2021 4:52 AM

It’s not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong

Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic

21 Feb 2021 4:37 AM

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hands over 100,000 additional doses of COVID vaccine to Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid and Health Minister Kerafa Naseem. (PTI)

India gifts another 1 lakh COVID-19 vaccines to Maldives

This takes the overall gift of Covid vaccine doses for the Maldives to two lakh from India since New Delhi had gifted one lakh doses earlier

21 Feb 2021 4:35 AM

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar witnesses the exchange of agreements between India and Maldives on a wide range of domains. (PTI)

Indian tourists boost cash registers in Maldives

Foreign minister Jaishankar begins two-day visit to India’s south-western maritime neighbour

21 Feb 2021 4:19 AM

Jaipur Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@GauravS36197247)

The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary show on earth

S. Hareesh’s controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM

Dr Sudipta Sarangi's The Economics of Small Things (Twitter@PenguinIndia)

Clever treatise marries economics, storytelling

Dr Sudipta Sarangi weaves anecdotes and economic incidents with fascinating studies in her book The Economics of Small Things

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM

It has been reported that stickers are put on the doors or entrances of those who have paid, thereby marking out those who have not. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Not much righteous about Ram temple funds drive

Fear and unlawful pressure cannot be a basis for religious or spiritual pursuits

21 Feb 2021 4:10 AM

Lankesh, a left-leaning journalist-activist, was shot dead on September 5, 2017 outside her house here by a member of a gang.(PTI file photo)

Bail plea of six accused in Gauri Lankesh murder case rejected

The bail plea filed by nine accused have been rejected including six on Saturday

21 Feb 2021 3:27 AM

Owaisi's proposed rally has evoked sharp reactions from the ruling TMC. (PTI file)

AIMIM to kick off Bengal campaign with Owaisi's rally on Feb 25

AIMIM has already come up with posters and the slogan Awaz uthaneke waqt aa chuka hain (time has come to raise your voice)

21 Feb 2021 3:04 AM

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public rally at Poilan in Kolkata on February 18, 2021. (PTI)

Mamata becomes 'beti' from 'didi' in TMC's new poll slogan

TMC is engaged in a bitter political fight with the BJP and projects the opposition party's leaders as outsiders

21 Feb 2021 2:31 AM

Though the exact whereabouts of the kidnapped employees were not known to police, security sources feared that they have been taken to neighbouring Myanmar where a united front of banned outfit United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (UNLFWSEA) and other rebel bodies have their base camps. — Representational image

Ulfa-I threatens to take ultimate step next week on 2 captive employees of Quippo

Drilling superintendent Pranab Kumar Gogoi and radio operator Ram Kumar were kidnapped on December 21, 2020

21 Feb 2021 2:22 AM

Modi also advised extending help to the private sector as a key move to seek foreign investment and emphasised on strengthening MSMEs and start-ups. (PTI file)

Untapped potential of farm sector can push country out of economic slump: Modi

The meeting which was held amid the ongoing farmers' protest, did not deliberate on the controversial farm laws

21 Feb 2021 2:18 AM

India and China are likely to issued a joint statement on outcome of the meeting. — PTI file photo

India, China talk to disengage more

It is expected that India and China will first be able to reach an agreement on Gogra-Hot Springs

21 Feb 2021 2:15 AM

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