Breaking News LIVE: India Administers Over 57 Lakh Covid Vaccines Till 7 PM, Accumulative Count Crosses 76 Cr Mark
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India administered more than 57 lakh vaccine doses till 7pm today. With this, the total number of vaccinations has crossed the 76 crore mark: Government of India
Tata Sons has submitted a bid for Air India disinvestment today, government sources close to the development told news agency ANI.
Meanwhile, the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has said that the financial bids for Air India disinvestment received by Transaction Adviser. The process now moves to the concluding stage.
Gujarat Chief Minister's Office has informed that the swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet of CM Bhupendra Patel will take place on September 16 (Thursday) at 1.30 pm at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar.
India’s drugs regulator has granted permission to Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to conduct phase 3 clinical trials for Sputnik Light, the single-dose and the first component of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine against Coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
Addressing a press conference, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that the Delhi govt earned 41 per cent less revenue last year due to COVID-19. He further said that the govt has earned 23 per cent less revenue in the current financial year.
Sisodia said that the Delhi govt will earn Rs 3,000 crore extra revenue in the next 12 months under the new excise policy. He also informed that the Delhi government will earn around Rs 10,000 crore from bidding of liquor stores in 32 zones.
West Bengal has extended COVID-19 restrictions till September 30 with existing relaxations, reports PTI.
Gujarat new ministers to take oath today, says BJP spokesperson. Bhupendra Patel, BJP MLA from Ghatlodia constituency in Ahmedabad, took oath as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat on Monday.
Having already received a copious amount of rain this month, Delhi is likely to witness another spell of moderate to heavy rain starting tonight, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
An orange alert has been issued for moderate rain in Delhi on Thursday. Heavy rain is also expected at isolated places.
An orange alert is issued as a warning for extremely bad weather with the potential of disruption in commute with road and drain closures and interruption of power supply.
Lt Gen (Retd) Gurmit Singh was sworn in on Wednesday as the new governor of Uttarakhand.
The oath of office was administered to Singh by the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice RS Chauhan at a simple function held at the Raj Bhawan here.
Singh, who retired as the Deputy Chief of the Indian Army, is a highly decorated former Army officer.
The function was attended by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, his cabinet colleagues, and a number of senior government officials including Chief Secretary SS Sandhu and DGP Ashok Kumar.
Lt Gen Singh succeeds Baby Rani Maurya, who resigned three years before completing her tenure.
Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened on a positive note on Wednesday supported by persistent foreign capital inflows.
However, gains were capped as most of the Asian shares turned negative in line with an overnight drop in US stocks. Rising crude oil prices also weighed on investor sentiment.
The 30-share Sensex was trading 64.24 points or 0.11 per cent higher at 58,311.33. Similarly, Nifty advanced 22.05 points or 0.13 per cent to 17,402.05 in initial deals.
Titan was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising 0.93 per cent, followed by Bajaj Auto, L&T, M&M, Infosys, Nestle India, Reliance Industries and Bharti Airtel.
On the other hand, IndusInd Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC twins, HCL Tech and Tata Steel were among the laggards.
Vice President of India and Rajya Sabha Chairperson, M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will jointly launch Sansad TV at the Main Committee Room, Parliament House Annexe today (September 15) at 6 PM. The launch date coincides with the International Day of Democracy, informed the official communique by the Prime Minister`s Office.
A total of 44 candidates have scored 100 percentile in the engineering entrance exam JEE-Main this year while 18 candidates have shared the top rank, Ministry of Education (MoE) officials said on Tuesday midnight.
The first rank holders included Gaurab Das (Karnataka), Vaibhav Vishal (Bihar), Duggineni Venkata Paneesh (Andhra Pradesh), Siddhant Mukherjee, Anshul Verma and Mridul Agarwal (Rajasthan), Ruchir Bansal and Kavya Chopra (Delhi), Amaiya Singhal and Pal Agarwal (Uttar Pradesh), , Komma Sharanya and Joysula Venkata Aditya (Telangana), Pasala Veera Siva, Karnam Lokesh and Kanchanapalli Rahul Naidu, (Andhra Pradesh), Pulkit Goyal (Punjab) and Guramrit Singh (Chandigarh).
The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and urged the United States to show “heart" to the impoverished country. A donor conference in Geneva on Monday saw countries promise a total of $1.2 billion in aid for Afghanistan, which was taken over by the hardline Islamist group last month in a lightning offensive that took retreating US troops by surprise. Afghanistan, already heavily dependent on aid, is facing an economic crisis, with the new authorities unable to pay salaries and food prices soaring.
97 cases of dengue have been reported in Prayagraj, out of which 9 patients are admitted to hospitals. No death has been reported due to dengue this year so far. The cases are likely to increase in the city. Our preventive efforts are focused there: CMO Nanak Saran
Background
Breaking News LIVE Updates September 15, 2021: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will on Wednesday chair the 81st All India Presiding Officers' Conference (AIPOC) via video-conferencing. According to an official statement, the conference will deliberate on the ‘Role of Legislature in fostering effective and meaningful democracy’. Notably, the summit comes in the backdrop of the International Day of Democracy, which is observed on September 15 every year.
The latest coronavirus wave in the United States driven by the Delta variant could soon peak, but experts warn against complacency and expect the virus will be part of everyday life for years to come, reports AFP.
The seven-day-average of daily cases as of Monday was 172,000, its highest level of this surge even as the growth rate is slowing and cases are headed down in most states, according to data compiled by the Covid Act Now tracker.
But more than 1,800 people are still dying a day, and over 100,000 remain hospitalized with severe Covid -- a grim reminder of the challenges authorities have faced in getting enough Americans vaccinated in the face of misinformation and a polarized political climate.
The Madras High Court has set aside a notification of the central government, fixing 120 kilometres/hour as the speed limit for vehicles running on highways.
A division bench of Justices N Kirubakaran (since retired) and Justice TV Thamilselvi, which quashed the notification dated April 6, 2018, recently, also directed the Centre and the State to issue fresh notifications with decreased speed limit.
Originally, while passing interim orders on an appeal on March 3 this year, the bench increased the compensation amount from ₹ 18.43 lakh to ₹ 1.50 crore to the appellant -- a dentist, who had suffered 90 per cent disability due to a road accident that occurred in April 2013 in Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu.
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