Russia and China blocked the UN Security Council on Tuesday from supporting new sanctions on Mali for its military leaders’ decision to delay next month’s elections until 2026, a blow to the restoration of democracy in the troubled West African nation.
Day: January 13, 2022
When lockdown was announced for the first time in the country in 2020 to curb the spread of Covid-19, many from the marginalised sections of the society suffered to fulfil even their basic needs, including food.
With Covid-19 cases rising sharply across the country, bankers have requested their customers to visit the branches only if there is an unavoidable need to do so.
Exempt Tamilnadu from NEET, abolish the all-India quota in State-funded medical institutions, allot more funds for TN’s healthcare projects, commence AIIMS works in Madurai soon, set up AIIMS in Coimbatore are among the demands put forward by Chief Minister M K Stalin to the Union government.
Tamilnadu BJP president K Annamalai has said there is no place for criminal elements in the party’s State unit.
On a day when daily coronavirus infections rose to 17,934 in Tamilnadu on Wednesday, at least 30 districts recorded a rise in new cases when compared to the previous day’s figures.
Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he didn’t expect the “player” Imran Khan to tax contraceptives, Samaa TV reported.
North Korea said Wednesday it has successfully conducted the final test-firing of a new hypersonic missile a day earlier as its leader Kim Jong-un called for the strengthening of the country’s strategic military muscle both in quality and quantity during an on-site inspection.
Omicron is quickly overtaking the Delta variant of Covid and becoming dominant around the world, a senior WHO official has warned, with the global health agency cautioning that there is “increasing evidence” Omicron is able to evade immunity but has less disease severity as compared to other variants.