# India meets Taliban     India joined a 10 nation statement recognising the ‘new reality’ of the Taliban in power in Afghanistan at the Moscow format meeting on wednesday. News of the meeting between the Taliban delegation and JP Singh, joint secretary for Pakistan-Afghanistan -Iran, ministry of external affairs, was reported […]

      # Covid vaccination     A sizeable number of eligible Covid-19 vaccination beneficiaries have not received their second dose informed union health secretary. He reviewed the progress of vaccination with senior health officials of the states and the Union territories earlier this week. The Health ministry said the government had advised the […]

      # Singhu border murder     A second arrest was made on Saturday in connection with the murder of a Dalit sikh at the site of the farmers’ protest at the Singhu border. Narain Singh, a member of the Nihang sikh community from Amarkot village, was arrested by the Amritsar rural police. […]

      # Border security force     The union home ministry has enhanced the powers of the Border security force (BSF) to “arrest, search and seize” within 50 km from the international boundary in Assam, West bengal and Punjab. Such operational powers to the BSF, a central armed police force under the union, […]

    # Covaxin     Bharat biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘covaxin’ has been recommended for emergency use authorisation (EUA) for two to 18 year olds by the Subject expert committee of the central drug standards control organisation (CDSCO). Covaxin is the country’s first indigenous, whole virion, inactivated vaccine developed by Bharat biotech in collaboration with […]

      # Kashmir encounter     Five army personnel, including a junior commissioned officer (JCO) have been martyred in a gunfight with terrorists. Two terrorists were killed in encounter with security forces in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir within 12 hours on monday. A massive combing operations was launched in the Pir […]

      # Crop procurement     Bulk of farmers in eastern states have not been as motivated to join the agitation as their counterparts as their counterparts in the northwest. Farmers in these states, with densely populated rural areas, bear the double burden of low procurement as well as low prices in the […]

      # Vikrant aircraft carrier     The maiden sea trials of the indigenous aircraft carrier Vikrant have progressed very well. The second phase of trials are expected to begin by october end. The third phase is planned to begin in December. Vikrant is expected to be delivered to the navy in April […]

      # GST collections     India’s gross GST revenues crossed 1.17 lakh crore rupees in September, hitting a five month high. September’s revenues were 23% higher than a year ago and 27.3% more than collections in the pre-pandemic month of September 2019. Coupled with economic growth, anti-evasion activities, especially action against fake […]

      # Monsoon rainfall     The monsoon is likely to begin withdrawing from the mainland from october 6. Indian meteorological department said that country recorded an average of nearly 87 cm of rainfall across subdivisions. The quantum of rainfall during the monsoon is counted as that received between June 1 and September […]