# Vaccination drive     The covid-19 vaccination drive in India will begin on January 16. Priority will be given to healthcare workers and frontline workers. This would be followed by the voluntary vaccination of people above 50 and those below with co morbidities. 70 lakh beneficiaries have already registered on Co-win, a digital […]

  # Farmer’s protest The eighth round of talks between the centre and the farmer unions, ended without any resolution. The stalemate continued over the repeal of the three farm laws. The ninth round of talks will be held on january 15. The centre wants the supreme courtto hear the matter on the farm laws […]

  # Biden win confirmed     The US congress confirmed Democrat Joe biden as the presidential election winner early on thursday. A violent mob loyal to president trump stormed the capitol in a stunning attempt to overturn the presidential election. Facebook, Twitter suspend trump’s account for inciting violence. Many world leaders including PM modi […]

  # Anti conversion laws     The supreme court on wednesday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of laws enacted by states, such as uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. These laws criminalise religious conversions via marriage and mandate prior official clearance before marrying into another faith. However, Supreme court did not stayed the implementation of […]

  # Vaccine hub     A command and control centre is set up at the centre’s aviation cargo wing. AAICLAS will monitor the movement of covid-19 vaccines across a network of 41 airports, with pune as the hub. Once vaccines are dispatched by the manufacturers, it will arrive at four big depots of Karnal, […]

  # Weight of school bags     The Directorate of education has issued a circular asking schools to follow the new “school bag policy”, 2020. This new school bag policy has been released by the National council of educational research and training (NCERT). According to circular, school teachers should inform the students in advance […]

  # Covid-19 vaccine     The central drugs and standards committee (CDSCO) on sunday formally approved the covid-19 vaccines by Bharat biotech and SII. This allows the vaccines – covishield by SII and based on the Oxford astrazeneca vaccine and covaxin by bharat biotech to be offered to healthcare workers and frontline workers in […]

  # Free vaccination     Free covid-19 vaccination will be provided to three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first phase of vaccination – said health minister Harsh vardhan. Nation wide vaccination dry run was conducted in 286 session sites spread across 125 districts on saturday.       # “Covaxin”     […]

  # Covishield     Covishield, the vaccine candidate from the pune based Serum institute of India, was approved by a subject expert committee (SEC) of the Drug controller general of India. Covishield is likely to be practically available for use within the next week. Covishield is similar to the Oxford vaccine developed by Oxford […]

  # UK approves Oxford vaccine     The Covid-19 vaccine by Oxford university and Astrazeneca has been approved for emergency supply in the UK. The first doses were released on wednesday and the vaccination will begin early in the next year. This is significant for India, as the pune based Serum institute of India […]