The WHO’s statement on booster doses comes after its Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE) said evidence till date indicates “a minimal to modest reduction” of vaccine protection against severe disease over six months after the second dose. The recommendations could potentially set the ball rolling for India to look at administration of booster doses to the two priority groups.
All those confirmed to have Omicron had mild symptoms such as fever, sore throat and body ache. None of them was required to be put on oxygen or ventilator.
🔴 For 2021-22, the BMC has made provision of Rs 18,750.99 crore for capital expenditure of which 40.68 per cent have been spent.
“A Bangladeshi smuggler was gunned down near the International Boundary by a jawan of the border outpost Nawada, 70 Battalion, BSF," said an officer.
🔴 The suspects have been identified as Saleem Mubarak Shaikh (38), who is a rickshaw driver as well as a street hawker, and his friend Vijay Dedwalkar (33), who used to work for a private company earlier.
A government statement said Channi and his family sought the blessings of Baba Gurinder Singh to serve the state and its people.
🔴 AAP's protest at the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar Monday that led to the jailing of its 93 members including the entire brass in Gujarat seemed to have been taken as a matter of pride by the party rank.
MP Atul Rai has been in a Prayagraj jail since June 2019 for allegedly raping the woman in Varanasi residence the year before. The victim and her friend set themselves on fire outside the Supreme Court on August 16 to bring attention to the case. They died days later.
🔴 The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, meanwhile, prohibited the lawyer, R D Santhana Krishnan, from practising law in view of his “indecent behaviour while attending the court proceedings through virtual mode”.
Under the One Time Settlement (OTS) programme, a payment of Rs 10,000 can be made for a property in villages, Rs 15,000 in municipalities, and Rs 20,000 in municipal corporations.
Hundreds of people from at least 40 socio-political organisations Wednesday took out a protest march in Bengaluru against the Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021, commonly known as the anti-conversion Bill.
Asus' ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED is an investment, a notebook that combines portability and power.
The video shared by IPS officer Rupin Sharma shows how the police discovered that something was amiss when the metal detector started pinging near the person’s head.
Interested and eligible candidates can begin filling up the NDA 2022 application form on upsconline.nic.in. The commission will conduct the exam on April 10, 2022.
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