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Official sources said that while preparations to tend to patients needing hospital care — as a result of a cumulatively higher number of cases — were on, evidence provided by domestic and global studies pointed to India’s expanding vaccination coverage and hybrid immunity delivering a high level of protection against serious disease. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/32JEcTn

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A 23-year-old LLB student was found dead inside a well in Madhuban Bapu Dham colony of Kavi Nagar Police Station area, police here said on Friday. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/3zch0tf

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After being alerted by a local resident about the incident, the Delhi Fire Service officials conducted a search and found the cow trapped underground in the middle of the drain. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eC5Rby

The awards spanning 20 languages include seven books of poetry, two novels, five short stories, two plays and one biography, autobiography, epic poetry and criticism. A statement by the Sahitya Akademi said the awards for Maithili, Manipuri, Gujarati and Urdu will be announced later. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EGwzdJ

While attributing the recent case-spike to a possible spurt of Omicron infections in the country, officials maintained that Delta continues to be the dominant strain in India. The government also said that severity issues of the Omicron variant are still not settled though it appears to be mild. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FIXCqa

The decision to continue the enforcement of AFSPA across the whole of Nagaland comes amid shrill demands to withdraw the Act from the state in view of the killing of over a dozen civilians in Mon district by 21 Para-Special Forces, allegedly due to “mistaken identity”. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qz6DLX

On Thursday, India had recorded 16,695 fresh cases till late night, with data from a couple of states yet to come in. This is the highest single-day increase in cases in 71 days since 18,388 cases were reported on October 20. Thursday’s final tally is expected to exceed 16,700. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FGnYJq

On Thursday, India had recorded 16,695 fresh cases till late night, with data from a couple of states yet to come in. This is the highest single-day increase in cases in 71 days since 18,388 cases were reported on October 20. Thursday’s final tally is expected to exceed 16,700. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/32DbX95

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Scientists at the Pune-based Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV) have successfully isolated the Omicron strain of the novel coronavirus. The exercise will also find an answer to another critical question: Will the new variant outsmart existing antibodies in those who have had Covid from old strains? from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3exq6qH

Prominent seers in Haridwar have condemned the provocative statements that were made at the ‘Dharma Sansad’ held recently in the holy city. Several speakers at the meeting had then lashed out at the minority community, with one even threatening to kill former PM Manmohan Singh for his alleged “appeasement views”. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sGhQNo

The explosion of cases has been sudden and widespread since overall Covid numbers had been falling till last week. At least 18 state and Union territories, spread across the country except the northeast, have registered a rise in cases this week as compared with the corresponding days of the previous week. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FD45mw

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A day after the formal announcement of alliance among BJP, former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, former Akali Dal veteran, several prominent faces from the state, including former India cricketer Dinesh Mongia and two sitting Congress MLAs, joined BJP on Tuesday. The Congress legislators who joined BJP are Fateh Singh Bajwa, MLA from Qadian and Balwinder Singh Laddi, sitting MLA from Hargobindpur. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3z4hzVU

People above 60 years with comorbidities will not be required to upload or provide a medical certificate to be eligibile for the “precautionary” dose of Covid vaccine. However, they must consult their doctor before taking the jab, the Centre said on Tuesday. States have been advised to set up separate vaccination centres dedicated for children between 15-18 years. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/32EuqBV

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Germany has arrested prominent Khalistani terror plotter Jaswinder Singh Multani in what marks a breakthrough for India’s counter-terror effort to foil plans of Pakistan’s Inter State Intelligence to engineer terror attacks in Punjab and other parts, including Mumbai. He is currently in German custody and will be questioned by Indian investigators. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EtRTDa

Delhi recorded 331 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, the biggest singleday increase in 201 days, apart from one Covid-19 fatality in the last 24 hours. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/32Efeoz

With the number of new Covid-19 cases on a constant rise, night curfew imposed by Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) between 11pm and 5am came into force from Monday. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/32KxlJy

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After being briefed in detail on the extent of Omicron cases in UP, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur as well as the status of vaccination in these states, the EC has now asked the health secretary to follow up on its instructions to step up the pace of vaccination and come back in a week’s time with a fresh report. The EC will then take a call on fine-tuning guidelines for Covid-safe campaigning and polling in the five states. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3z5kNsk

Children between 15 and 18 years can register online on CoWin from January 1 or onsite at vaccination centres to receive Covaxin shots from January 3. They can register themselves online through an existing account or create a new one. Among healthcare workers and those aged 60 and above with comorbidities, prioritisation and sequencing would be based on completion of 9 months from the date of the 2nd dose as of Jan 10. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3syZk9P

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“Courts do not have the power of the purse or the sword. Court orders are only good when they get executed. The executive needs to assist and cooperate for the rule of law to prevail in the nation. However, there appears to be a growing tendency to disregard, and even disrespect court orders by the executive,” the CJI said. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Jj0xI6

The Union home ministry has constituted a five-member committee headed by registrar general of India Vivek Joshi to examine the possibility of withdrawing the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from Nagaland in the wake of the botched December 3 Army operation in Mon district that resulted in 14 civilian deaths. The committee will submit its report within 45 days. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/32BfxQI

Nearly three crore health and frontline workers will be eligible in January for the ‘precaution dose’ of Covid vaccine that will be administered after a gap of nine months from the second dose, official sources said on Sunday. As of now, the third jab that will also be given to around three crore people above 60 with co-morbidities will be of the same vaccine that one had got in the first and second instances. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EtqjGe

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Khalistani elements based in Pakistan may have radicalised dismissed Punjab police head constable Gagandeep Singh, the lone casualty and suspected perpetrator of Thursday’s Ludhiana court complex blast, when he was in prison for heroin possession for two years, DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya said on Saturday. A woman cop once attached to the Khanna SP’s office and suspected to have been Gagandeep’s girlfriend was detained. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3elVwAo

Gujarat has topped states in the overall Good Governance Index (GGI) for 2020-21 in the indicators launched by Union home minister Amit Shah on the occasion of Good Governance Day. Delhi topped the list among all UTs. The GGI 2021 framework covered 10 sectors and 58 indicators. These include agriculture and allied sectors, commerce and industries, human resource development, public health, public infrastructure and utilities. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3prNsVd

In the wake of rising Omicron cases and low vaccination coverage in some states, the Centre on Saturday deployed multi-disciplinary teams in 10 states to assist them in addressing hurdles and suggest remedial measures. These 10 states are Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Mizoram, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/32CcsQn

PM Narendra Modi announced on Saturday that “precaution doses” (boosters) of Covid vaccines for health and frontline workers as well as for those above 60 with co-morbidities will begin from January 10. He also said vaccination for children aged 15-18, using Covaxin, will begin from January 3. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mydRi1

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Nearly two dozen Punjab farm groups are expected to form a political front, or even a party, on Saturday and join electoral politics. According to reliable sources, the new political entity is likely to carry the word “Sanyukt” in its name just as the Haryana-based BKU, led by Gurnam Singh Charuni, named its political wing the Sanyukt Sangharsh Party. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3JgVcRz

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The Delhi government on Friday directed that shops and street vendors in the Sarojini Nagar Market will follow odd-even operations for the weekend of December 25 and 26 in order to prevent the popular south Delhi market from becoming a super spreader for Covid-19. from Delhi News: Latest Delhi News Headlines & Live Updates from Delhi - Times of India https://ift.tt/3HbpP9j

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India’s Omicron tally crossed the 300-mark on Thursday and stood at 341 on the back of a record single-day jump of 84 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, 40 more than the previous highest daily count of 44 which was recorded on Tuesday. Tamil Nadu recorded the highest daily count on Thursday with 33 fresh Omicron cases, followed by Maharashtra which added 23 cases. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ejZOrV

The Karnataka legislative assembly on Thursday passed a controversial anti-conversion bill amid a din and day-long debate by the opposition parties. The bill is aimed at curbing illegal religious conversions. The Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021, introduced in the assembly on Tuesday, was passed by voice vote even as Congress members protested from the well of the House demanding more time for debate on the legislation. from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qmEZSn

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