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A health worker gets ready to administer a Covishield vaccine dose. File

Govt for scientific decision on booster dose, jabs for children Special Correspondent

Health Minister says it could not be hurried or politicised.

5 contacts of India’s first Omicron cases test positive

Health Ministry warns of COVID-19 clusters in India

In Karnataka, double vaccination must for parents school and college going children

Two travellers from Singapore, U.K. test positive in T.N.

National

Shiv Sena member Priyanka Chaturvedi. FIle

National

Priyanka Chaturvedi quits Sansad TV show

Special Correspondent Opposition MPs have been protesting the move, with these 12 MPs continuing a sit-in dharna in Parliament premises.

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla delivers valedictory address during the conference to mark centennial year celebration of Public Accounts Committee (PAC), in the Central Hall of Parliament House on Sunday.

National

Parliamentary committees should make executive accountable: Lok Sabha Speaker

PTI ‘The committees should endeavour to work for the benefit and welfare of the last person standing in the queue’

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International

In a grisly incident on December 3, 2021, Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana was lynched and his body burnt by angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan in Pakistan's Punjab province over blasphemy allegations.

International

Sri Lanka advisor links Pakistan lynching to Taliban takeover

Suhasini Haidar Regional countries discuss the fallout of Afghanistan events at the Indian Ocean Conference in Abu Dhabi

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs a cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2021, as his top defense and intelligence officials headed to Washington amid the flailing Iran’s nuclear talks.

International

Israel urges hard line against Iran at nuclear talks

AP Israel has been watching with concern as world powers sit down with Iran in Vienna in hopes of restoring the tattered 2015 deal

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Special Correspondent Members of several organisations staged a day-long sit-in outside the office of Gurugram Divisional Commissioner on Wednesday demanding strict action against those trying to disturb the communal harmony in the city on the pretext of opposing Friday prayer (Jumma Namaz) in the open.The organisations include the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Janwadi Mahila Samiti, Loktantrik Manch, All-India Lawyers’ Union, Democratic Youth Federation of India, Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch, and Sarv

Children studying at a private tuition centre, in New Delhi. File

Data

Data | Students turn to private coaching during the pandemic

The Hindu Data Team In all the States except Kerala, the proportion of children opting for private coaching increased in 2021 compared to 2018

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Kochi

678 fresh COVID-19 cases in Ernakulam

Special Correspondent As many as 678 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Ernakulam on Sunday. A communication from the Public Relations department said there were 670 cases of local transmission and eight cases in which the source of infection is not known. A total of 702 people were declared COVID-negative on Sunday, the communication added. The test positivity rate is 7.79%. As many as 1,076 people were freshly placed under observation in their homes while 934 people came out of home observation on Sunday.

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Madurai

Official conducts speed trial on Madurai-Manamadurai line

Special Correspondent Commissioner of Railway Safety, Bengaluru, Abhay Kumar Rai, inspected the electrified railway line between Madurai and Manamadurai on Sunday. Along with Chief Project Director of Railway Electrification Sameer Dighe; Principal Chief Electrical Engineer of Southern Railway R. K. Mehta; and Additional Divisional Railway Manager T. Ramesh Babu, he conducted inspection of the electrified line at various stations, bridges and rail overbridges. Later, he conducted a speed trial on the 47-km stretch