In his first prime-time address, Biden also announced the deployment of more than 4,000 active-duty troops to support vaccination efforts, bringing the total to over 6,000.
PM Narendra Modi was speaking at his first BJP parliamentary party meeting since Covid outbreak last year. He urged MPs to facilitate the vaccination process in their constituencies.
There was frustration for the elderly as technical glitches in the CoWIN app meant many couldn’t register while change in hospital protocols led to long queues.
India began phase 2 of its immunisation programme Monday, vaccinating citizens above 60 years and those above 45 with comorbidities. Citizens can also get vaccinated at private hospitals.
Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.
At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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