Day: March 26, 2021

India tells overseas vaccine buyers it has to prioritise local needs

11:07 pm March 26, 2021

New Delhi: India, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, said on Friday it would make domestic COVID-19 inoculations a priority as infections surge and had told international buyers of its decision. Reports that India will delay deliveries of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to a global programme to inoculate poorer countries triggered alarm on Thursday, with the head […]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry dies at 84

10:52 pm March 26, 2021

Dallas: Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapes in works such as his emotional tale of a mother-daughter relationship in “Terms of Endearment,” has died. He was 84. His death was confirmed Friday by […]

Delhi govt to provide govt job to brother of IB employee who lost his life during riots

10:35 pm March 26, 2021

New Delhi: Under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi cabinet on Friday decided to provide a government job to Ankur Sharma who is the brother of late IB employee Ankit Sharma. Ankit Sharma lost his life during the Delhi riots. The Delhi cabinet today has approved this proposal and now the Delhi […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Delhi Cabinet approves engagement of 300 low-floor AC e-buses by DTC

10:19 pm March 26, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi cabinet on Friday approved the proposal for engagement of 300 low floor fully electric air conditioned buses by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). The induction of 300 electric buses by DTC at a time is one of the largest engagements of electric buses by any State Government or State Transport Undertaking (STU). […]