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Karnataka to vaccinate 48 lakh children against Japanese encephalitis in Dec [Check age, other details]

A special vaccination drive to innoculate an estimated 48 lakh children aged between 1 and 15 years against Japanese encephalitis (JE) will be held in Karnataka starting December 5 for a period of three weeks.

Dec 5, 2022

Diljit Dosanjh's statement on Sidhu Moosewalla's killing sparks new debate in Punjab [details]

Opposition parties step up attack on AAP government in Punjab for deteriorating law and order situation in the state. Diljit Dosanjh blames the government for the gruesome murder of a noted Punjab singer.

Dec 4, 2022

Iran to disband hated morality police amid ongoing protests [details]

Iran's morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country's Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country's attorney general said, according to a media report.

Dec 4, 2022

J&K leads in implementing PM's Employment Generation Programme; boosts entrepreneurship [details]

21640 units were established under the flagship scheme in the Union Territory during the last fiscal. 1.73 lakh employment is also generated.

Dec 4, 2022

Alwar DC receives best district award; Prez Murmu hails empowerment of Divyangjan [details]

Indian President Draupati Murmu awarded Alwar District Collector Dr. Jitendra Kumar Soni for the best district of the year 2022, and hailed the empowerment of Divyangjan.

Dec 4, 2022

Drug abuse emerges as bigger enemy than gun-wielding terrorists in J&K [details]

J&K DGP Dilbag Singh calls upon the youth to launch a decisive war against the drug mafia as drug abuse is a bigger enemy than terrorism today. Terrorism targets individuals but drugs affect families and society as a whole.

Dec 4, 2022

Batteryless device detects Covid droplets in the air around you [details]

Researchers have developed a unique batteryless and wireless device that can detect within no time coronavirus in the air, if your surroundings contain Covid-19 particles or droplets the moment they enter the vicinity.

Dec 4, 2022

China fails to contain COVID again; abandons zero-Covid policy [details]

In the face of the most widespread national protests since the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square demonstrators in 1989, the Chinese government has abruptly abandoned its flagship zero-Covid policy, according to a media report.

Dec 4, 2022

Midnapore blast: Deceased Trinamool leader was involved in illegal cracker business, alleges wife

A new twist emerged on Sunday, two days after the explosion at a local Trinamool Congress leader's residence in East Midnapore district near the ancestral residence of Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari killed three persons on Friday.

Dec 4, 2022

Imprisoned for over 3 months in Qatar, fate of eight ex-Indian Navy officials hangs in balance [read now]

According to a source, they have been wrongly charged with espionage, apparently on the behest of one of India's neighbours.

Dec 4, 2022

TN headmistress held for making Scheduled Caste students clean school toilets

A primary school headmistress was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making six Scheduled Caste students clean the school toilets in Erode district of Tamil Nadu.

Dec 4, 2022

Illegal factories in congested lanes of Delhi's Sudarshan Park a ticking time bomb

It took more than 24 hours to douse the fire that broke out at Chandni Chowk's Bhagirath Palace marketplace in the Capital on November 24. The fire damaged 150 shops and led to the collapse of four buildings, according to the Delhi police. Traders at the spot estimated the value of the destroyed goods in crores.

Dec 4, 2022

After AIIMS, Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital faces hacking attack; here's what happened

After All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi became the victim of hacking attack where Chinese involvement was suspected, another top hospital in the national capital, the Safdarjung Hospital has also been hit.

Dec 4, 2022

Girl brutalised, left in field with abdomen cut open in UP village

In a gruesome murder, a nine-year-old girl was brutalised, mutilated and left to die in a wheat field on the outskirts of Madhopur village under the Amaria police station in Pilibhit .

Dec 4, 2022

Delhi CM Kejriwal casts his vote; urges people to vote for honest party [details]

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal along with his family members on Sunday morning exercised his franchise for the Municipal Corporation election at a polling booth in the Civil lines area.

Dec 4, 2022