Kolkata, 9/3: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that she was shot at in Nandigram during the Assembly polls last year. Banerjee, who contested from Nandigram in East Midnapore, lost to the BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari. “I was not allowed to campaign. I was shot at in Nandigram. There was…
New Delhi, 9/3: Under Graduate Medical Education Board, National Medical Commission removed the fixed upper age limit for appearing in the NEET-UG examination on Wednesday. The decision over the NEET 2022 upper age limit was challenged in the Supreme Court this year.
New Delhi, 9/3: The Indian drug regulator has approved limited emergency use of the Serum Institute of India’s anti-Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Covovax’. Giving this information on Wednesday, official sources said that the vaccine has been developed for children between the ages of 12 and 17. This will be the fourth anti-corona vaccine available in…
New Delhi,9/3: Convicted in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, A. Yes. The Supreme Court has ordered Perarivalan to be released on bail. The court, in its judgment, said that Perarivalan has been in jail for nearly 30 years and his conduct during this period has been consistently satisfactory. Due to delays on…
New Delhi, 9/3: Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has said that the Russia-Ukraine conflict shows that a conventional war can happen and the country needs to be ready to fight future wars with indigenous weapons. “Is the war being fought in cyberspace or through air-conditioned chambers?” General Naravane asked. He then…
UP, 9/3: Amid allegations of illegal shifting of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in Varanasi, the Samajwadi Party has demanded webcast of the entire counting process in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022. The party tweeted the on-camera statement of an official conceding there were ‘lapses’. Varanasi’s Commissioner Deepak Agarwal appeared to accept that there was…
Chennai, 9/3: Chennai Super Kings, which has won the title 4 times in the IPL, has suffered a setback before the start of the 15th season (IPL-2022). Team’s star pacer Deepak Chahar may be out of the opening matches of the upcoming season. The reason for this is his surgery and he is likely to…
Goa,9/3: A day ahead of the counting of votes, the marginal players in the coastal state of Goa may emerge as kingmakers in case of a fractured mandate as predicted by the exit polls. While the Trinamool Congress is not commenting on the post-poll scenario, Ashok Tanwar, who was in Goa campaigning for…
Kyiv, 9/3: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is no longer pressing for NATO membership for Ukraine, a delicate issue that was one of Russia’s stated reasons for invading its pro-Western neighbour. In another apparent nod aimed at placating Moscow, Zelenskyy said he is open to “compromise” on the status of two breakaway pro-Russian…
New Delhi, 8/3: : Vedanta Aluminium Business, India’s largest producer of aluminium and its value-added products, has launched ‘Vedanta#BreakTheBias’ Augmented Reality (AR) campaign on Instagram on International Women’s Day. The campaign is aimed at gamifying the message that female students and professionals should actively consider a career in the manufacturing industry, which is the most…
