Amid Alarming Global Covid Surge, How Indian States Are Bracing For Impact
NDTV
Sources have said there are currently 10 different variants of Covid in the country, BF.7 being the latest.
The Centre and states have stepped up Covid testing and checks after four cases of the Omicron sub-variant driving the massive China surge were found in the country. New guidelines are being issued and people have been advised to take the precaution dose of the Covid vaccine if they haven't yet. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will review the Covid situation in India in a meeting today.
The Karnataka government has said it will start monitoring international passengers at Bengaluru airport, though the date hasn't yet been announced.
The Maharashtra health department has asked all the district administrations and municipal corporations to ramp up testing. Health minister Tanaji Sawant directed all the districts to follow a five-point programme -- test, track, treat, vaccinate and (ensure) COVID-19 appropriate behaviour. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will chair a review meeting for the Covid situation and preparedness in the state today at 3:30 pm.
In Uttarakhand, the state government is preparing to issue a fresh set of standard operating procedure on Covid based on the Centre's guidelines following a sudden spurt in cases in some countries, Health Minister Dhan Singh Rawat has said.
The BJP, Vishnu Deo Sai said, has shown huge respect to Ambedkar, no matter who headed the government -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Narendra Modi.
Shyam Benegal, who burst on the scene with his first film "Ankur" in 1974, was a chronicler of India's times and politics.
A second-cousin brother of the late legend, actor-film-maker Guru Dutt, Shyam Benegal was 90 and breathed his last at a private hospital in Mumbai. He is survived by his wife Nira and their daughter Pia.
The union government has scrapped the 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 in schools governed by it allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams, according to officials.
"Adani Defence Systems & Technologies Ltd (ADSTL) has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 85.8 per cent shareholding in Air Works India (Engineering) Private Ltd," a company statement said.
Several domestic carriers, between October and November, received hundreds of "hoax" messages or calls on their official communication channels including on social media.
Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's BJD has made it clear that they are not against Electronic Voting Machines, questioning instead the integrity of the election process.
Lavi Pal alias Rahul Saini was arrested after an encounter in which he was injured on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.
Seven Indians were injured in the deadly car-ramming attack in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.
The man, identified as Zakir, gesticulated to a biker to help him, even as the truck kept accelerating, showed the 36-second clip.
All the accused were arrested in November and December after reviewing data from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C), said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (cyber).