Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:10:41
The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday said it was deeply anguished with the shutting down of the Kashmir Press Club (KPC) in Jammu and Kashmir, a region that has seen the "worst kind of state heavy handedness against any independent media".
Issuing a second statement in three days -- a day after the Jammu and Kashmir administration said the KPC had "ceased to exist" and took back the premises a
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:07:23
The Congress has expressed unhappiness over ED raids on a close relative of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. The party on Tuesday slammed the BJP for misusing the government agency and said it is ready battle it out in Punjab and would tell people how the BJP is trying to harass the country's only Dalit Chief Minister.
The Congress will address press conferences in the entire state
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:06:00
The Union Health Ministry has not yet taken any decision on COVID-19 vaccination for children in the age bracket of 12-14 years, official sources told ANI.
As India has inoculated over 3.5 crore first doses of the Covaxin vaccine in the age group of 15-18 years, it is expected that the first phase of the vaccination drive for this age group will be completed by the end of this month.
However
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:03:52
A private nursing college in Mangaluru has been declared Covid cluster after seven students tested positive.
Health department officials said that all the seven students are from Kerala and are doing their first year of nursing. They had come with a Covid negative certificate.
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:00:01
The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to peak much earlier than anticipated and may take a maximum of three more weeks, even though the share of rural districts in new caseloads has increased significantly since December, says a report.
The optimism comes from the massive decline in new caseloads in the top 15 districts which had the maximum infections, SBI Research said in a repor
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:41:40
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that there was an attempt to put pressure and target him and his ministers as the polling day drew near, hours after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided multiple locations in the state as part of a money laundering probe against the "sand mafia" and companies linked to alleged illegal sand mining.
Premises linked to a person, iden
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:40:08
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday accused Congress-led UPA of entering into a "fraud" and "scandalous" deal with Devas Multimedia by allocating S-band spectrum used by the defence for "pittance".
At a press conference, she said the government is now fighting in every court to save taxpayers' money that would otherwise go towards paying for arbitration awards that Devas has won agai
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:36:16
Mangalore MLA U T Khader on Monday urged the government to withdraw the weekend curfew.
He accused the government of instilling fear among people in the name of Omicron. It is a well-known fact that people are suffering from mild to moderate symptoms and none have lost their lives for Omicron, he said.
Yet, the government has imposed a weekend curfew which was politically motivated to derail
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:30:22
The Karnataka government has warned certain medical practitioners of action for allegedly spreading misinformation pertaining to the Covid-19. In a statement on Tuesday, the Commissionerate of Health and Family Services said some medical practitioners were allegedly giving incomplete, inaccurate and unsubstantiated information about Covid-19.
"Such misinformation leads to confusion in public a
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