Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to unveil a series of measures later on Monday as part of plans to start unlocking the UK from its coronavirus lockdown, including so-called COVID passports for mass events and a traffic lights system for foreign travel. After a Cabinet meeting to finalise the latest set of plans, Johnson … Read more
NEW DELHI: Registration for the new category of 60 plus people and those between 45-60 with comorbidities will open at 9am on Monday using the Co-Win 2.0 portal (www.cowin.gov.in) or through other IT applications. So far, around 1.42 crore doses of the vaccines have been administered among health and frontline workers since the launch of … Read more
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said, “From March 1, people above 60 years of age and those above 45 years of age with comorbidities will be vaccinated at 10,000 government and over 20,000 private vaccination centres.” As Coronavirus infections have been rising again, though in some parts of the country, the centre has stepped up its … Read more
Bengaluru: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa changed portfolios of four of his cabinet colleagues for a third time in a week including twice on Monday betraying a sign of helplessness and susceptibility to political pressures. He rejigged the portfolios of K Sudhakar, JC Madhuswamy, C P Yogeeshwara and Anand Singh. While the chief minister restored medical … Read more
Like 8,000 flying trapeze artists passing in midair, the Biden and Trump administrations swapped out senior leadership of the federal government on the fly as Joe Biden was inaugurated as the nation’s 46th president. Biden announced the dozens of career civil servants who would be leading federal agencies, pending Senate approval of his permanent nominees. … Read more
NEW DELHI: Farmers’ unions have said that central ministers were finally convinced that the agitation would not end with anything less than a repeal of the three farm laws and an ordinance on minimum support price. After the end of four-hour animated meeting with the Centre’s representatives on Monday, farmer leader Darshan Pal said: “Agriculture … Read more
Chandigarh (Punjab): With the COVID-19 vaccine in the final stages of operationalisation in India, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday announced that he will take the first shot of the vaccine in the state, once it is cleared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). According to an official release, the Chief … Read more
Finance minister Nirmala Sithraman is open to considering further measures to stimulate the economy, following on from various booster programmes that have been announced since March. The finance ministry may also issue an assessment of the economic situation along the lines of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), she said. “I have not closed the … Read more
The Punjab government will table a bill in a special assembly session beginning Monday to improve the state’s investment climate and generate employment. The state cabinet approved the conversion of the Factories (Punjab Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 into a Bill at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, an official statement said. The Bill is … Read more
JAIPUR: Accusing the central government of betraying farmers, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Saturday asked how will the Centre pacify farmers about the farm bills when it failed to convince its own minister over it. He demanded that the Centre withdraw the three bills in the interest of farmers. “The central government … Read more