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Friday, October 4, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Delhi HC criticises ‘irritating’ dialer tune asking people to get vaccinated amid shortage

The high court said the govt should prepare more such messages instead of preparing just one and running it always.

Stop surging prices of Covid supplies, restore frequency of cargo flights: India tells China

The decision by China's Sichuan Airlines to suspend 11 cargo flights for 15 days from 26 April amplified cargo flight disruptions and it is yet to restore services to India.

Bengaluru grave digger buried Covid dead for months, was buried today after not getting O2 bed

Bengaluru residents claim lack of government beds even as BBMP shows bed availability. CM Yediyurappa has asked patients to not ‘over-stay’ in hospitals.

‘Should we hang ourselves over non-availability of vaccines?’ — Union Minister Gowda

Replying to queries on vaccine shortages, D V Sadananda Gowda said 'certain things are beyond our control' and clarified that the govt has been doing its best.

Bombay HC asks Pune civic body to look for modern ways to reduce pollution at crematoriums

The court was hearing a PIL which said that chimneys of many crematoriums are not constructed according to the standard design, due to which the fumes released does not move upward.

UPSC postpones civil services prelims exams from 27 June to 10 October

The Union Public Service Commission deferred the exams in view of the prevailing conditions caused due to Covid.

TN & Andhra SOS to PM, Kerala’s surplus stock over — Oxygen shortage now hits South India

Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala have written to Modi govt flagging high demand for oxygen and the shortage faced by them amid Covid surge.

Vedanta’s Sterlite Copper begins production of medical oxygen, dispatches first batch

The Sterlite copper smelter plant was given approval by the then AIADMK government on 26 April to produce medical oxygen at its Tuticorin facility for a period of four months.

Maharashtra extends lockdown curbs till 1 June, makes negative RT-PCR test must to enter state

The order said restrictions as per earlier rules for people arriving from 'sensitive origin' will now be applicable to anyone entering the state from any part of the country.

On Camera

I met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2005. He told me he was an admirer of MK Gandhi

Shuttle diplomacy at a high level is indicated, along the lines of the famous Kissingerian shuttles following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?