The Rajasthan Cabinet will see the induction of two new women members on Sunday. Shakuntala Rawat and Zahida are set to take oath as new ministers while Mamta Bhupesh will be taking oath as cabinet minister after elevation to cabinet rank from minister of state, taking the total number of women in the Ashok Gehlot … Read more
JOHN WHYTE: Welcome, everyone. You’re watching Coronavirus in Context. I’m Doctor John White, the Chief Medical Officer at WebMD. So who exactly needs boosters and when? When are we actually going to see a vaccine for kids? And should you wait as a parent for a little while once they’re available? And then, what’s the … Read more
Modern chemical-based cleaning items have their major downsides. In addition to being costly, their use may pose a risk to your health. Careless disposal of these cleaning products may also prove to be harmful to the environment. Luckily, there is an array of eco-friendly cleaning options for keeping your whole house spotless. Cleaning Bare Surfaces … Read more
Aug. 24, 2021 — White House officials are urging COVID-19 vaccine skeptics to get immunized now that Pfizer’s two-dose shot has been given full FDA approval. “We know that there are Americans who were waiting for the FDA process to be completed before getting the shot,” Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, … Read more
Lok Sabha continued to witness protests by the Opposition over the Pegasus snooping controversy and farmers’ issues on Tuesday and had to be adjourned for the day after the House passed two key bills. The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2021 and the Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021 were passed separately by voice vote in the midst … Read more
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday urged both the government and the opposition to collectively resolve the present stalemate in Parliament. It has been learnt that Naidu also discussed the stalemate in the House with Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge after the first adjournment of the House on Tuesday. … Read more
Trinamool MP Shantanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining part of the monsoon session for ‘unruly behaviour’. Sen had snatched a paper from information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, containing the statement on the Pegasus row he was reading out in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, and tore it to pieces. … Read more
Making a start with the announcement of the bypoll to a Rajya Sabha seat from West Bengal, the Election Commission is working on scheduling by-elections to at least 23 state and Lok Sabha seats and eight Rajya Sabha seats on a case-by-case basis. Bypolls, however, to the six vacant assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh and … Read more
Twelve BJP MLAs of the Maharashtra assembly were suspended for a year for allegedly using abusive language and for “pushing” and “shoving” the acting assembly Speaker Bhaskar Jadhav. BJP has denied the charges and claimed that the government suspended the legislators as part of a plot to bring down the opposition numbers and to “silence” … Read more
June 30, 2021 — The budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF) could double, to $81 billion over the next 5 years, if a massive funding bill that passed with bipartisan support in the Senate this month also passes in the U.S. House of Representatives. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, has called the … Read more