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Producers, arhtiyas happy over wheat procurement, says Punjab Food Minister

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PM Modi to participate in climate summit on April 22

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In the virtual event, world leaders to exchange views on climate change, enhancing climate actions

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WhatsApp privacy policy case | Delhi High Court verdict likely on April 22

The messaging app had challenged CCI order for a probe.

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Indian ads further gender stereotypes, shows study

A farmer piles up wheat grain, at the Grain Market in Bathinda, Thursday, April, 15, 2021.

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana receive MSP directly in their bank accounts

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PM Modi to participate in climate summit on April 22

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WhatsApp privacy policy case | Delhi High Court verdict likely on April 22

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

Keep border issue at ‘appropriate position’ and focus on long term ties, China tells India

Christophe Deloire, head of RSF (Reporters without borders) stands in front of the 2021 map of press freedom in Paris, France, Tuesday April, 20, 2021.

India again placed at 142nd rank in press freedom

Assembly Elections 2021

Not feasible to club remaining phases: Election Commission tells Trinamool Damini Nath

The poll panel cited election law and various steps it has taken to ensure safety of voters to rule out any change

Polling in sixth phase to be held across crucial geographies in Bengal

BJP lodges complaint with EC over Mamata video

Campaigns in West Bengal continue despite surge in COVID cases

BJP decides to stop large rallies, restricts crowds to 500

COVID-19

A health worker helps a COVID-19 patient deboard an anbbulance at a Government-run hospital in Kolkata on April 17, 2021.

New coronavirus lineage found in West Bengal Jacob Koshy

It has a major mutation that helps it evade immune system and possibly compromise vaccine efficacy

Citing oxygen shortage, Lucknow hospital asks kin to shift critical patients

Assam gives ambulance status to oxygen carriers

All eligible transport staff to be vaccinated in T.N.

38 inmates of Byculla jail test positive

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Supreme Court paves way for ad-hoc judges in High Courts

Four more Rafale jets arrive in India

Indian ads further gender stereotypes, shows study

Coronavirus | Centre ramps up production capacity of Remdesivir

States assured seamless oxygen supply, says Nirmala Sitharaman

Coronavirus | With more than 3 lakh cases, India records world’s highest single-day spike on April 21, 2021

PM Modi to participate in climate summit on April 22

In the virtual event, world leaders to exchange views on climate change, enhancing climate actions

Coronavirus | Over 13.22 crore vaccine doses administered till now

The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country stands at 13,22,40,352 as per the 8 p.m. provisional report, it said.

High Courts in crisis situation with huge vacancies, says Supreme Court

Centre should appoint judges within 3-4 weeks if collegium reiterates its recommendations unanimously, it says.

Coronavirus | Very few post-vaccine infections, says ICMR

ICMR says such ‘breakthrough’ cases do not undermine the efficacy of shots.

Pallium India runs COVID-19 helpline

Sukh-Dukh Helpline aids people cope with losses due to the pandemic

Coronavirus | Shashi Tharoor and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury test positive

While Mr. Tharoor was actively campaigning for his party in the recently concluded Kerala election, Mr Chowdhury has been leading his party's campaign in West Bengal.

Coronavirus | Efforts being ramped up for massive production of vaccines: Department of Biotechnology Secretary

Renu Swarup said a financial support of ₹400 crore is being provided to vaccine candidates from Zydus Cadilla, Biological E, Gennova and Bharat Biotech

India again placed at 142nd rank in press freedom

It’s one of the most dangerous countries for journalists trying to do their job properly: RSF

Keep border issue at ‘appropriate position’ and focus on long term ties, China tells India

‘Work to bring bilateral relations back to the track of sound and steady development,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman says.

Coronavirus | Narendra Modi needs to tell people how he’s going to save lives: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

Congress reiterates demand of ‘one nation, one price’ for vaccines

Government releases COVID-19 data showing severity of victims in second wave same as first

The release of the statistics follows growing panic in the country over concerns that the second wave is somehow more powerful and could cause greater havoc.

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana receive MSP directly in their bank accounts

Producers, arhtiyas happy over wheat procurement, says Punjab Food Minister

Coronavirus | Covishield to be sold to States at ₹400 a dose and at ₹600 to private hospitals from May 1

The vaccines, however, would not retail until 4-5 months and corporates and private individuals could in the meantime only get these vaccines from ‘State-facilitated machinery,’ says a statement.

Covaxin neutralises double mutant strain: ICMR

"ICMR study shows Covaxin neutralises against multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2.”

Covishield comprises over 90% of 12.76 crore COVID vaccines administered so far

Experts said Covishield is being produced at a much higher scale than Covaxin due to which its availability is more.

Hopes of entire nation in hands of voters of West Bengal: Chidambaram

“An election is to hold the government accountable. The BJP is solely responsible for the medical catastrophe that has fallen on the country,” the senior Congress leader tweeted.

Vaccine policy no less than demonetisation: Rahul Gandhi

“The common people will stand in queues, will suffer loss of wealth, health and life and in the end only a few big industrialists will benefit,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted.

Try to implement public policies that will make country self-reliant: Venkaiah Naidu to Civil Servants

“On this Civil Services Day, I express my heartfelt gratitude, along with my fellow citizens, to numerous civil servants who have left an indelible impress on the governance of our country,” he said.

COVID-19 vaccines: 8 States account for about 60% for total doses administered so far, says Health ministry

The United States took 101 days to administer 13 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine, while China took 109 days to cross the same number, says the Union Health Ministry

Air pollution costs Indian businesses $95 billion a year: study

If New Delhi fails to clean its toxic air, the booming IT sector could lose more than $2.5 every year, the study warned.

Railway pointsman Mayur Shelke to get ₹50,000 cash award for saving child

The incident took place at Vangani station near Mumbai, where Mr. Shelke is posted as a pointsman, on April 17.

Coronavirus updates | April 21, 2021

PM Modi has urged States to only resort to lockdown as an absolute last resort.

Modi wishes people on Ram Navami

The PM asks people to follow COVID guidelines

Two insurance company officials held on graft charge

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a senior divisional manager and an administrative officer of the National Insurance Company Limited

Over 50 test positive for COVID-19 on India flight to Hong Kong

At least 53 passengers on a flight from New Delhi to Hong Kong have tested positive for COVID-19, authorities said on Tuesday, as the Chinese

EPFO adds 12.37 lakh subscribers in February

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) said on Tuesday it had recorded a net addition of 12.37 lakh subscribers in February. “Despite

Country in tears, what is there to laugh about, Priyanka asks Modi

PM has failed to provide a sense of safety, direction or leadership, she says

Delhi HC directs removal of offending online content

The Internet never sleeps, and the Internet never forgets, observes Justice Bhambani

Korea Tourism Organisation and The Hindu to present online discussion April 22

The Korea Tourism Organisation along with The Hindu will present an online discussion on ‘The rising Korean wave in India and how it will influence

PM Modi’s address to nation an ‘empty talk’, says Congress

“He put the onus of doing whatever little possible on State Governments and that also by practically advising them to not implement Lock Downs”

Coronavirus | Over 2,000 COVID-19 deaths on single day

2.93 lakh fresh infections reported.

Migrant workers are not crowding stations: Goyal

There was no railway station in the country where migrant workers had reached in large numbers, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday.

Control rooms for migrant workers reactivated

The Union Labour and Employment Ministry on Tuesday reactivated the 20 control rooms it had set up in April 2020 to help migrant workers, in the wake

Why not ‘one nation one price’ for COVID-19 vaccines, asks Congress

India gasping for oxygen because of Centre’s incompetence and complacency, says Rahul

Use lockdown only as absolute last resort: PM Modi tells States

In his televised address to the nation, the PM appealed to workplaces to use this as an opportunity to vaccinate their workforce

Live updates | PM Modi appeals to States to consider lockdowns only as a last resort

Modi urged vaccine manufacturers to continuously scale up their production capacity to inoculate all in the shortest possible time.

Coronavirus | Amid surge, Narendra Modi cancels travel to Europe

EU-India summit to be virtual; U.S., U.K, issue advisories on trips to India

Coronavirus | Youth Congress steps in to coordinate aid to patients

COVID SOS centre links patients to hospital beds, home tests, oxygen supply

Border situation cannot be swept under carpet, says Indian envoy to China

Comments indicate difference in how New Delhi and Beijing view the way forward to restore normalcy in the relationship

Eastern India most vulnerable to climate change, says study

Assessment by two IITs and the IISc finds 24 of India’s 100 districts most vulnerable to climate change are in Assam

Army converting its hospital in Delhi to exclusive COVID-19 facility for armed forces personnel, veterans

This facility will be available for COVID-19 patients from Thursday.

Cabinet gives ex-post facto approval for amendments to Finance Bill, 2021

The Finance Bill became the Finance Act, 2021 on March 28, 2021 after receiving the President's nod

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