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The vaccination exercise will be conducted utilising experience of elections (booth strategy) and Universal Immunization Program (UIP) without compromising existing healthcare services, especially national programs and primary health care. (Photo-AP)

Covid vaccination drive to begin from January 16

Emergency Use Authorisation or Accelerated Approval has been granted by the Drug Controller General of India for...

10 Jan 2021 4:25 AM IST

Majority of the Punjabi singers have supported the farmers in the ongoing protest. (Photo:PTI)

Harbhajan Mann, Jazzy B, Rabbi Shergill take the stage at Tikri border

Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker, who has been vocal about her support for the farmers movement, was also present at the...

10 Jan 2021 12:43 AM IST

$The suspended Twitter account of President Donald Trump. On Friday, the social media company permanently suspended Trump from its platform, citing \risk of further incitement of violence.\ (AP)$ Newsmakers

A farewell to @realDonaldTrump, gone after 57,000 tweets

As Trump began seriously toying with a White House run, it became a tool to scorch opponents and give shape to his...

9 Jan 2021 11:20 PM IST

Relatives of passengers on board missing Sriwijaya Air flight SJY182 wait for news at the Supadio airport in Pontianak on January 9, 2021, after contact with the aircraft was lost shortly after take-off from Jakarta. - An Indonesian budget airline with 62 people on board is suspected to have crashed into the sea shortly after the Boeing 737 took off from Jakarta airport on January 9, authorities said. (AFP)

Indonesian plane feared crashed after losing contact

Authorities and the airline gave no immediate indication as to why the plane suddenly went down

9 Jan 2021 8:44 PM IST

$Google said on January 8, 2021 that it had pulled the Parler app from its mobile store for allowing \egregious content\ that could incite deadly violence like that seen at the US Capitol. (AFP)$ Technology

US Capitol Hill siege: Google pulls Parler from app shop for...

Facebook and Twitter banned Trump accounts Friday due to fear he would use them to instigate another attack such as the...

9 Jan 2021 1:41 PM IST

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference on the day after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, January. 7, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House will move to impeach Trump if he doesn't resign 'immediately',...

Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said the impeachment proceedings should begin immediately

9 Jan 2021 11:45 AM IST

Madhavsinh Solanki (Photo credit: Twitter)

Ex-Union minister and Cong veteran Madhavsinh Solanki dead

He had served as External Affairs Minister from June 1991 to March 1992

9 Jan 2021 11:14 AM IST

Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh interacts with staff members, at Bhandara General Hospital in Bhandara district, Saturday. January. 9, 2021. (PTI)

Ten newborn babies die in Maharashtra hospital fire

The infants were aged between a month and three months, a doctor said

9 Jan 2021 10:23 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Of Chinese virus, Spanish flu, UK strain: Do points of origin matter?

Of course, viruses, just like us Parsis, are sometimes named after the things we do and sometimes after the places from...

9 Jan 2021 7:38 AM IST

Indian Parliament (Image credit : Wikipedia)

Ashwani Kumar | Reassert core' values & halt democracy's decay

As the highest forum of democracy, Parliament too cannot escape its share of responsibility for our faltering record on...

9 Jan 2021 7:21 AM IST

When the researchers tested the sera of 20 participants who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine they found that it could act against the engineered coronavirus variants. (Photo:AFP)

Pfizer vaccine may protect against new mutations of coronavirus

Owing to the evolution of the coronavirus, scientists have called for the continuous monitoring of changes in the virus...

9 Jan 2021 4:38 AM IST

The farmer groups have also decided to meet on January 11 to decide their next course of action, even as many leaders said they have lost hope now that any resolution could be reached even in the next round of negotiations. (Photo:PTI)

Farmers dig in heels, say ready for Bakshi in Delhi

Union leaders insisted that they do not want anything less than the repeal of the laws and they are ready to fight till...

9 Jan 2021 4:38 AM IST