Day: January 21, 2021

Former President Barack Obama congratulated his former running mate and Vice President Joe Biden. “Congratulations to my friend, President @JoeBiden! This is your time,” Obama tweeted.

With 15,223 new infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 1,02,65,706 today.

The conditions of poet Varavara Rao’s detention are ‘cruel, inhuman, and degrading’, senior lawyer Indira Jaising told the Bombay High Court, and urged it to exercise its jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution to release him from prison.

A nasal Covid-19 vaccine will be easy to give to school-going children who bear a ‘very mild’ load of the disease but they are infectious, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hit the campaign trail on 23 January in Tamilnadu where assembly elections are likely to be held in April-May, party state unit chief KS Azhagiri said on Wednesday.

Apex medical body IMA expressed concern over not all pre-registered beneficiaries turning up for receiving Covid-19 vaccines and suggested the Madhya Pradesh government to allow inoculation of people interested in getting doses.

Leaking of official secrets of military operations is treason and those involved in it must be punished, the Congress said on the purported WhatsApp chats of Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and demanded that the Prime Minister must come clean.

Senior vice-president of Aditya Birla Group Ranjan Banerjee joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took to Twitter to wish the people of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura on their Statehood Day.

One of the biggest mysteries since time immemorial is how do certain people ‘hear the dead’?