So, it begins. India has started to administer precaution dose of Covid vaccines to all adults on Sunday.   The jab was given to people aged above 18 years, who have also completed nine months after taking the second dose, at private vaccination centres.   All states and UTs have been informed by the Centre…Continue Reading

Canadian Pacific Railway and the union representing employees are pointing fingers at each other in the shutdown of railway operations that began early Sunday and threatened to further disrupt supply chains.An employee boards a Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive at a yard in Calgary on Friday. A shutdown of Canadian Pacific Railway operations began early Sunday. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian…Continue Reading

India’s Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is set to attend the EU Ministerial Forum for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific on February 22, which is an initiative of the French Presidency of the European Council.  The visit is crucial from the perspective of India as it will happen amid Chinese assertiveness in the…Continue Reading

Voting for elections to municipal corporations of Bidhannagar, Asansol, Siliguri and Chandannagar in West Bengal began at 7 am on Saturday. Elaborate security arrangements have been made by the police in all the four municipal areas situated in different parts of the state for peaceful conduct of the polls, an official said. As per the…Continue Reading

Revamped KPPL begins operation

105 employees report for work on first day 105 employees report for work on first day Kerala Paper Products Ltd.(KPPL), a State-owned public sector unit, began its operations here on Saturday with the repair and upgrading of machinery in three of the six plants in the factory unit in Velloor.Officials said the operations had begun…Continue Reading

Event to mark 100 yrs of PAC begins today

WHILE PRIME Minister Narendra Modi has been invited for the two-day centennial celebrations of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over the weekend, he is yet to confirm whether he will attend, said Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress leader in Lok Sabha who heads the PAC. “The Speaker’s office has invited the Prime Minister on behalf of…Continue Reading

Polling begins for by-elections to 4 Bengal Assembly constituencies

Voting began at 7 AM on Saturday for by-polls to the four assembly constituencies of Dinhata in Cooch Behar, Shantipur in Nadia, Khardah in North 24 Parganas and Gosaba in South 24 Parganas districts, an election commission of India (ECI) official said. In Dinhata, TMC’s heavyweight north Bengal leader Udayan Guha is fighting to reclaim…Continue Reading

Voting begins for bypoll to Haryana’s Ellenabad Assembly constituency

Voting for the bypoll to the Ellenabad assembly constituency in Haryana began on Saturday morning, officials said. Polling began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm, they added. The bypoll was necessitated by INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala’s resignation as MLA from the seat in January over the Centre’s farm laws. Over 1.85…Continue Reading