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The Indian Council of Medical Research, or ICMR, has distanced itself from a follow-up study by two Banaras Hindu University professors that said nearly a third of 926 individuals who received the India-made Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine reported serious side-effects. The study claimed that around one per cent of respondents reported strokes and an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which causes weakness in nerves in the arms and legs. Conducted between January 2022 and August 2023, the study also said 50 per cent of the sample size complained of respiratory infections, and over 30 per cent reported assorted physical problems, ranging from…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an exclusive to NDTV, said the government is working on bringing changes in bureaucracy and the decision-making process to implement big schemes using technology. The Prime Minister gave an example of the use of technology to survey islands in India. Speaking to NDTV’s Editor-in-Chief Sanjay Pugalia, Prime Minister Modi said, “India has approximately 1,300 islands. I was surprised to know that we did not have a record or survey of these islands. With the help of space technology, we surveyed them and some islands are the same size as Singapore. It means for India, building…
The police in Ohio have claimed that a sex worker in the area had contact with more than 200 clients despite knowing she was HIV-positive. They have issued a notice, asking people who engaged in the “risky business” with her to come forward and get tested, a report in New York Post said. The sex worker, Linda Leccesse, had sexual contacts with clients for five months – from January to May, 2022. This is around the same time she took an HIV test and learned she was positive for the deadly virus, the outlet further said. This is categorised as…
In Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi is a name that evokes both reverence and revulsion. Revered by the hardline factions within Iran’s theocratic regime and reviled by human rights organisations, Raisi’s journey from a low-ranking cleric’s son to the zenith of Iranian power to an abrupt death in an air crash is steeped in controversy. When Raisi assumed the presidency in August 2021, many feared an escalation in Iran’s repressive policies. These fears were soon realised. His administration presided over an alarming increase in executions and continued crackdowns on political dissent. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), emboldened by Raisi’s hardline…
Four suspected ISIS terrorists have been arrested from the Ahmedabad airport, days after the airport received a bomb threat. The terrorists are believed to be citizens of Sri Lanka. The Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) made the arrests when they were allegedly waiting at the airport for their handler. Original Source
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could not have been rocked by Swati Maliwal at a more inopportune time. The AAP convenor had intended to put all his focus into the ongoing Lok Sabha elections given that he only recently walked out of jail. But he finds himself entrenched in an unseemly controversy, from which he will now have to extricate himself and his party skillfully. Kejriwal will also have to ensure that neither he nor his senior party leaders, as also his family members, are personally drawn into this messy affair. At the moment,…
People from 49 constituencies across six states and two Union Territories are voting in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls today. Polling is being held for five parliamentary seats in Bihar, Jharkhand (3), Maharashtra (13), Odisha (5), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (7) and two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir (1) and Ladakh (1). As the polling is underway, several Bollywood celebrities including Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Paresh Rawal, Sunil Shetty, Dharmendra, Varun and David Dhawan were seen casting their vote in Mumbai. Key candidates contesting in the fifth phase include Union Ministers Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North),…
Parents-to-be Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh stepped out in Mumbai on Monday morning to exercise their voting rights. Soon-to-be parents were pictured outside a polling station after they were done casting their vote in the 5th phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Both Ranveer and Deepika were seen twinning in white shirt and light blue jeans. Mom-to-be Deepika Padukone’s baby bump was visible in her loose shirt as she arrived to cast her vote. Deepika was seen holding her husband Ranveer’s hand tightly as they walked towards the booth to cast their vote.Take a look at some pictures from…
The 17-year-old boy at the wheel of the speeding Porsche that hit a bike in Pune Saturday night, killing a man and a woman, was out on bail 15 hours after he was arrested. His lawyer Prashant Patil said a court granted bail to the minor on conditions — he has to work with traffic police in Yerwada for 15 days, write an essay on accidents, undergo treatment for his drinking habit and take counselling sessions. The accused is the son of a prominent Pune realtor. Twenty-four-year-olds Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both engineers from Madhya Pradesh working in Pune,…
Ghajini stands out as one of the finest films in Aamir Khan’s career. It is a Hindi remake of the 2005 Tamil film of the same name. But, do you know that Salman Khan was the first choice for Aamir’s role in the 2008 film? Pradeep Rawat, who portrayed the role of the antagonist in both the Hindi and Tamil versions, shared how he suggested Aamir instead of the “short-tempered” Salman Khan. During an interview with Siddharth Kannan, the actor mentioned, “AR Murugadoss (director) used to keep saying ‘I want to make it (Ghajini) in Hindi, I want to make it in Hindi…’…