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Shashi Tharoor too faces Twitter lockout after he posts for Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Opposition Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said his Twitter account too was briefly locked out after he posted an explainer on why Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was blocked from posting from his handle

Pregnant women 'can and should' get Covid19 vaccine, says Health Ministry

Bringing a major change in its vaccine policy, India's health ministry said that pregnant women "can and should" be vaccinated against Covid-19

India signs MOU with Norway to establish Maritime Knowledge Cluster

India and Norway will jointly establish a Maritime Knowledge Cluster to promote bilateral cooperation in the blue economy, a memorandum of understanding for which has been signed between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and India’s Director-General Shipping early this month

Government's responsibility to restore J&K's full statehood: Former CM Omar Abdullah

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, who attended the crucial meeting hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday evening, said it was the duty of the central governmnent to restore the broken trust of the people

Dark days of Emergency can't be forgotten: Modi trains guns on Congress recalling Indira Gandhi's 1975 regime

Training guns on the Congress, which has been accusing his government of authoritarian actions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the "dark days" of the "Emergency", imposed in 1975 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi,  can't be forgotten, accusing India's Grand Old Party of decimating democracy through the controversial step taken on this day 46 years ago

Delhi Police arrest four men from Ladakh for explosion near Israeli embassy

Four men from Kargi, in remote Ladakh region, that was once a part of Jammu and Kashmir, have been arrested by Delhi Police's Special Branch in connection with an explosion outside the Israeli Embassy in January this year

$32 million loan from World Bank for improving healthcare services in Mizoram

The Government of India, Government of Mizoram and the World Bank have signed a $32 million Mizoram Health Systems Strengthening Project to improve management capacity and quality of health services in the northeastern border state of Mizoram, particularly for the benefit of under-served areas and vulnerable groups

Our priority is to restore democracy, strengthen development: Indian PM Modi tells political parties of Jammu and Kashmir

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared he was committed to restoring democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, especially strengthening grassroots democracy, and told the restive union territory's political parties that its statehood would be given back at an appropriate time

Modi's meeting with Kashmiri leaders sets the ball rolling for return of democracy

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a three-hour-long meeting with all political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir for the first time in 22 months with assurances that he was committed to the democratic process with early restoration of statehood and assembly elections following the completion of the ongoing delimitation exercise

India registers yet another spike in daily Covid count with 54,069 new cases

COVID-19 daily cases are again witnessing a rise in India as it registered 54,069 new cases in the last 24 hours, as per Ministry of Health released data on Thursday

India likely to resume vaccine export to neighbors by July-August

The Indian government is believed to be planning to resume vaccine export, at least in its neighborhood, by July end or August, which it had halted in April following the deadly Covid surge, an Indian media report says, citing sources in the government

Most Covid deaths due to adverse effects of non-scientific medication, says new research

Most of the complications and deaths caused in Covid-19 patients are actually major adverse effects of the aggressive and non-scientific medications given at the mild stage and not due to the virus itself, according to a new research paper by an Indian trust

Phase 3 trial data reveal India's Covaxin 77.8 pc effective against Covid19

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, India's Indigenously-made Covid-19 jab, is 77.8 per cent effective in protecting against the deadly infection, according to data released from phase 3 trials conducted on 25,800 participants across India

Two former Kashmir CMs to attend Modi's all-party meeting

The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Tuesday said that all its leaders, who have been invited by the government will attend the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the future of Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi on Thursday

'Well done India!' PM Modi lauds as record 8 million people get vaccinated in one day

More than eight million COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered across the country in 24 hours, marking the highest single-day coverage till now, which is also Day One of the government's new inoculation policy rollout