Breaking News LIVE, March 16:
06:10 PM | Moderna announces Covid vaccine trial for 6-month to 12-year-old children in US, Canada
06:00 PM | Former Congress leader PC Chacko, who resigned from the party last week, joined the Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday. “I am formally joining the NCP today. NCP is part of the Left Democratic Front in Kerala. Once again, I am back in the LDF as a part of NCP,” news agency ANI quoted Chacko as saying.
PK Sinha, Principal Advisor in the PMO, has resigned from the PMO on personal grounds: Sources
Just In: PK Sinha, Principal Advisor in the PMO, has resigned from the PMO on personal grounds: Sources @the_hindu @nistula @abaruah64
— Mahesh Langa (@LangaMahesh) March 16, 2021
Swapan Dasgupta submits resignation letter to Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu’s office
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit India at the end of April in what will be his first major international trip after Britain’s exit from the European Union as part of efforts to boost UK opportunities in the region, his office said on Monday.
A meeting of the Union Cabinet is scheduled to be held on Tuesday via video-conferencing. The agenda of the meeting is yet to be known.
Ludhiana on Monday became the first city in India to extend Covid vaccination to the people beyond the priority group listed by the Centre. In a decision taken on late Monday evening, the district administration of Ludhiana allowed ongoing vaccination programme to all the employees of all government/private banks, government/private schools, the staff of food grain agencies, judicial officers/court staff/advocates, journalists, members of the Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) who have worked to check the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
RJD MP Manoj Jha has given notice under rule 267 in Rajya Sabha over “strike and agitation of bank employees against proposed privatisation”
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has spoken over the phone with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during which she appreciated India’s role as a critical partner in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and discussed the global economic outlook.
India administered 30,39,394 lakh COVID-19 vaccines on Monday, its highest in a day. The countrywide vaccination drive was rolled out on January 16 with healthcare workers getting inoculated and vaccination of the frontline workers started from February 2.
The next phase of COVID-19 vaccination has commenced from March 1 for those who are over 60 years of age and for people aged 45 and above with specified comorbid conditions.
