Day: February 11, 2021

A quarantine hotel in the Australian state of Victoria was shut down on Wednesday after the detection of two new Covid-19 cases linked to the facility.

DMK member Dayanidhi Maran said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should take a Covid vaccine shot in public as such a move will give confidence to people since many are not trusting the vaccine.

Nepal revoked the Everest summit certificates of two Indian climbers for faking their 2016 ascent, and banned them and their team leader from mountaineering in the country for six years, officials said.

The human spaceflight module of Gaganyaan will be launched after the second unmanned mission planned in 2022-23, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said.

The Indian Navy is carrying out a mega war game involving almost all operational assets like warships, submarines and aircraft over a vast geographical expanse in the Indian Ocean Region to test the force’s combat readiness in a complex multi-dimensional scenario, officials said.

Former Vice President Hamid Ansari said that there is a concerted effort by some in the country to regard Muslims as ‘others’ and stressed that India’s plural society has been the reality for centuries.

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait asserted that the agitating farmers were not aiming at any change in power at the Centre but a solution to their problems as he said many of their leaders will tour different parts of the country to spread the movement.

The Railways rolled out its first air conditioned three-tier economy class coach which is being touted by the Ministry to be “synonymous with the cheapest and best AC travel in the world”.

Taking a dig at the Opposition parties, Tamilnadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami said that they were running false propaganda against the AIADMK government on the minorities’ safety in the state.

With 12,923 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 1,08,71,294 today.