Author: Dr Anand Mali
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday (December 5, 2020) said that he has contracted coronavirus. The news comes within 15 days of him being administered a trial dose of COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin. “I have been tested positive for Corona. I am admitted in Civil Hospital Ambala Cantt. All those who have come in close contact with me are advised to get themselves tested for corona,” the minister tweeted. https://twitter.com/anilvijminister/status/1335093819654619137 Earlier on November 20, he was administered a trial dose of Covaxin. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1329684086332346369 He had tweeted on November 19, “I will be administered a trial dose of Covaxin a…
Christopher Nolan feels Hindi films happen to retain the fundamental reasons due to which we enjoy cinema, and that Hollywood has lost some of that essence. The Oscar-winning Hollywood maverick added that his trips to India made him aware of the thriving world of Bollywood. He loves everything about the Indian film affair – from the emotions and the drama, to the action and the music revelry. “With my trips to Mumbai, I started engaging more and more with Bollywood and the broad strokes of those movies. They happen to (have the) real fundamental reasons that we watch cinema, and…
Observing that a live-in relationship between two consenting adults is not an offence, the Allahabad High Court recently granted police protection to a couple who wanted to live together. The High Court observed that it “settled the law that where a boy and a girl are major and they are living with their free will, then, nobody including their parents, has authority to interfere with their living together”. ICLU tweeted – https://twitter.com/ICLU_Ind/status/1334367861498789889 Live in relationship is a relationship which has not been socially accepted in India, unlike many other countries. In the case of Lata Singh vs. State of U.P.…
The Indian government has written a strongly worded letter to Wikipedia on 27 November directing the US based non-profit to remove the link of an incorrect map of Jammu and Kashmir. The matter was flagged by a Twitter user through a tweet asking the government to take action. The user had highlighted the Wikipedia page on India Bhutan relationship where the map had incorrectly depicted the map of Jammu Kashmir. https://twitter.com/skfor88/status/1332716105463283713 https://twitter.com/iroshithpushpa/status/1308949768341606400 The map shows Aksai Chin – a region constituting the eastern portion of Kashmir which has been subject to border dispute between India and China since 1962 –…
The Pakistan government will provide the coronavirus vaccine free of cost to its people and plans are afoot to start the immunisation drive by April next year, officials said on Thursday. As the highest number of deaths i.e. 75 due to coronavirus in a single day was reported on Wednesday, since July, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) decided to observe Covid-19 week to raise public awareness about the disease. Parliamentary secretary on health Nausheen Hamid said the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government has approved funds to purchase the vaccine doses. The PTI government will provide the coronavirus vaccines free of…
The New Zealand vs West Indies 1st Test match went underway on Thursday, December 3 on a grass-laden pitch at Seddon Park in Hamilton, New Zealand. The New Zealand vs West Indies 1st Test match went underway today (Thursday, December 3) at Hamilton’s Seddon Park. Earlier, West Indies captain Jason Holder won the toss and opted to field first. While the ongoing contest marked a rare occurrence of Test match cricket this year owing to the pandemic, fans were apparently more interested in highlighting the ‘monstrously green’ Hamilton pitch on offer NZ vs WI 2020: A look into Hamilton pitch…
The police in Uttar Pradesh stopped a Muslim man from marrying a Hindu woman in Lucknow despite the consent of their parents, saying they would first have to take permission from the state authorities under the new anti-conversion law that targets “love jihad”.a week after Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel approved the ordinance against unlawful conversion. The wedding was scheduled to take place in city’s Para area. Senior police officer Suresh Chandra Rawat said the police reached the venue of the wedding after receiving information that a woman from one community was getting married to a man from another community.…
Celebrities all across the globe flooded social media with support for Juno star Elliot Page as he came out as transgender on Tuesday. The Oscar-nominated actor, in an empowering post, introduced himself as a member of the trans community and wrote: “I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer.” The Umbrella Academy star thanked his supporters and added, “I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self.” Elliot…
A US judge on Tuesday threw out two rules proposed by the Trump administration to narrow eligibility for H-1B visa aspirants and raise their salaries in an effort to make it tougher for companies, mostly in IT, to use this short-term employment programme to hire foreigner workers instead of local Amer US district judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California ruled that the changes were introduced in a hurry and did not abide by the usual transparency obligations: provide notice and sufficient time for public comments. The administration had sought to rush it through in October arguing…
The Reserve Bank of India has asked HDFC Bank Ltd. To put a temporary halt to all digital banking launches and sourcing of new credit card customers. This comes after the lender faced a series of technical glitches over the last two years. Private sector lender HDFC Bank on Thursday said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked it temporarily stop all launches of its upcoming digital business-generating activities and sourcing of new credit card customers after outage at its data centre which impacted operations last month HDFC Bank officials stated, “These will not have any impact on existing…