Day: January 13, 2021

Pune district receives 1.13 lakh doses of Covishield

10:53 pm January 13, 2021

Pune : Pune district received over 1.13lakh doses of the Covishield vaccine against coronavirus on Wednesday, officials said. The transportation of the vaccine, manufactured at Serum Institute of India (SII) here, began on Tuesday morning. District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh said all the preparations are completed as inoculation drive will begin on January 16. The number […]

Centre should immediately repeal farm laws, no committee can do it: AAP

10:49 pm January 13, 2021

New Delhi: A day after the Supreme Court set up a four-member committee to end the impasse over new farm laws, the AAP on Wednesday demanded that the Centre immediately repeal the legislations as no panel can do it. Addressing a press conference, AAP spokesperson and MLA Raghav Chadha said all the four members of the Supreme […]

Maha minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law arrested in drugs case

10:45 pm January 13, 2021

Mumbai: The Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) on Wednesday arrested the son-in-law of Maharashtra Cabinet minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik in a drugs case. Sameer Khan, Malik’s son-in-law, was called for questioning at the NCB‘s Ballard Estate office in South Mumbai in the morning. Khan reached the office at 10 am and was arrested after several […]

Allahabad HC stays arrest of 'Mirzapur' web series directors, writers

Mandate of 30 days’ notice under Special Marriage Act optional: Allahabad HC

10:41 pm January 13, 2021

Lucknow: In a judgement that is likely to bring relief to inter-faith couples, the Allahabad High Court Wednesday declared as optional the mandatory publication of notice of intended marriages under the Special Marriage Act, saying it violated the Right To Privacy. Making such publication mandatory would invade in the fundamental rights of liberty and privacy, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

German regional spy chief fired over Christmas attack probe

10:37 pm January 13, 2021

Berlin: The domestic intelligence chief in Germany‘s northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been fired over his agency’s failure to pass on information about a 2016 truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed 12 people. German news agency dpa reported that Reinhard Mueller was removed from his post Wednesday. Mueller had told lawmakers that his agency did not […]