# Vaccination drive     The cummulative number of covid-19 doses administered in the country crossed 1.54 crores till 7 PM on tuesday. Indian council of medical research director general Balram bhargava said both the vaccines available in India were safe for use by people on blood thinners. ICMR head also said that it […]

  # 2nd phase vaccine rollout     Twenty five lakh potential beneficiaries had registered on the co-win portal on monday. Yesterday was the first day of the second phase of covid-19 vaccination covering those over 60. A total of 1,47,28,569 vaccine doses had been given so far, as per government data. Prime minister Narendra […]

  # Amazonia-1     Indian space research organisation on sunday successfully launched Brazil’s optical Earth observation satellite Amazonia-1. The rocket also carried 18 co-passengers satellites- five from India and 13 from the US-from Satish Dhawan space centre at sriharikota. The satellites were carried on board the PSLV-c51, the 53rd flight of ISRO’s launch vehicle. […]

  # COVID-19  upsurge     Maharashtra, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya pradesh, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Telangana and J&K are reporting a high active Covid-19 caseload. The states have been advised not to lower their guard, enforce pandemic appropriate behaviour and deal firmly with violations. Private hospitals functioning as covid-19 vaccination centres may recover a charge subject […]

  # Assembly polls     The election commission of India has announced the dates of assembly polls in the states of Tamil nadu, Assam, West bengal, kerela and union territory of puducherry. The elections will be held between march 27 and april 29. The counting of votes will be held together on may 2. […]

  # OTT platform guidelines     For the first time, the government under the ambit of the information technology (intermediary guidelines and digital media ethics code) rules 2021, has brought in detailed guidelines for digital content on both digital media and OTT platforms. The new rules will lay down a three tier greivance redressal […]

  # Covid-19 vaccine     People above 60 years of age and those above 45 with co-morbidities would be given covid vaccines from march 1. Information and broadcasting minister prakash javdekar has announced this. Vaccine shots would be given for free at 10,000 government run facilities and for a charge at 20,000 private hospitals. […]

  # Vaccine rollout     Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on tuesday that covid-19 vaccine for older people (above 50 years) is expected to start soon. Also, immunisation or vaccination will see more private sector participation. He informed that, approximately 10000 hospitals are being used for administering vaccines in a day. Out of […]

  # BRICS summit     China’s president XI Xinping may visit India in the second half of this year to attend the BRICS leaders meeting. It is expected that the BRICS summit will be a physical summit. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said that current border crisis will not impact the India china bilateral relations. […]

   #EPF, NPS     FM Nirmala sitharaman has said there is no intent to discourage higher income earners from saving with the EPF. FM also said that she was open to reviewing the contribution limit of 2.5 lakh rupees a year for tax free interest. There is no plan to merge the EPF with […]