With omicron type of coronavirus Slowly spreading its foot in the country, many States increased surveillance To trace, track and quarantine the contacts of COVID-19 positive persons while Delhi started genome sequencing of samples of all infected people and banned Christmas and New Year celebrations.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution allowing sanctions against the Taliban for providing humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
India delivered one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Myanmar on 22 December. The doses were handed over by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who is on a visit to the country by any Indian high official since the coup in February.
US health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to stave off the virus’s worst effects.
A study analyzing registered COVID-19 deaths in Chennai district found a high level of excess deaths. The study, published in lancet infectious disease,
The proposed amendment to the Anti-Child Marriage Act defines a child as below 21 years of age and contradicts laws where the legal age of eligibility has been recognized as 18 years.
Both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday adjourned indefinitely after an acrimonious winter session in which 11 Bills were passed and 13 Rajya Sabha MPs were suspended, with the presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha expressing concern over the disruption and expressed concern over the bitter differences between now. Treasury and opposition benches caused loss of trading time.
On December 22, the Income Tax Department conducted searches in different parts of the country against several entities involved in the manufacture of Chinese mobile phones on suspicion of tax evasion.
United Nations (UN) human rights experts on Wednesday demanded the release of Kashmir-based human rights defender Khurram Parvez, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
In an apparent distance between the Trinamool Congress and political consultancy group I-PAC founder Prashant Kishor, senior party leader Derek O’Brien said that the I-PAC was a political ally apart from a political party.
The Nilgiris district police on Wednesday questioned VK Sasikala’s nephew Vivek Jayaraman in the Kodanad dacoity-cum-murder case. Sources in the Nilgiris district police said Mr. Jayaraman was questioned in connection with the April 2017 vandalism at the Kodanad estate.
A senior BCCI official said on Wednesday that the BCCI is planning to conduct the auction of the two-day Indian Premier League in Bengaluru on February 7 and 8. This could be the last mega auction that BCCI can organize as most of the original IPL franchises want to call it off.
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