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10:16 AM

PM Modi reviews progress of development works in Kedarnath

10:11 AM

Police arrest 3 members of PFI from Assam's Kamrup

Police arrested 3 members of the banned PFI from Nagarbera area in Assam's Kamrup district Friday morning, also detained another person linked with PFI: SP Hitesh Ch. Ray, reports ANI

9:35 AM

India logs 2,119 new Covid cases; death toll reaches 528,953

India on October 21 reported a decrease of 473 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 25,037. The country is forty-third among the most affected countries globally by active cases. On October 21, it added 2,119 cases to take its total caseload to 44,638,636. And, with 10 new fatalities, including five more reconciled by Kerala, its Covid-19 death toll reached 528,953, or 1.19 per cent of total confirmed infections. With 463,338 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on October 20, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 2,195,097,574. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 44,084,646 — or 98.76 per cent of the total caseload — with 2,582 new cured cases being reported on October 21.

 

9:10 AM

PM Narendra Modi performs 'puja' at the Kedarnath Dham

8:45 AM

PM Narendra Modi offers prayers at Kedarnath temple

8:39 AM

PM Modi arrives in Kedarnath, to inaugurate various connectivity projects

8:25 AM

Some nations may see another wave of Covid due to XBB subvariant: WHO

Chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Soumya Swaminathan, on Thursday said some countries may see "another wave of infections" with the XBB subvariant of Omicron, a variant of COVID-19 virus. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN) here, she clarified that as of now, there was no data from any country to suggest that these new variants are clinically more severe. "There are over 300 subvariants of Omicron. I think the one that is concerning right now is XBB, which is a recombinant virus. We had seen some recombinant viruses earlier. It is very immune-evasive, which means it can overcome the antibodies. So slightly that we may see another wave of infections in some countries because of XBB," she said.

 

8:06 AM

PM Modi arrives in Dehradun, to visit Kedarnath, Badrinath

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Dehradun and will visit Kedarnath and Badrinath during which he will inspect various ongoing development works and also lay foundation stones for some new projects.