Cyclone Jawad set to impact AP, Odisha from today

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and other central/state agencies were deployed in strength on Friday for relief and rescue operations in the wake of cyclone ‘Jawad’ that is set to move in just off the Andhra–south Odisha coast by Saturday morning with wind speeds up to 90-100 kmph and heavy rain.

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Lankan lynched by mob in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy

A mob in Pakistan lynched a Sri Lankan national on Friday before burning his body for alleged blasphemy in Pakistan’s Sialkot city. Priyantha Kumara, in his 40s, had been working as operational manager at a private factory on Wazirabad Road in Sialkot, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, for the past seven years.

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'Consider booster dose for 40-plus age group'

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG ) has suggested a booster dose of anti-Covid vaccines can be considered for the 40-plus age group, prioritising those at high-risk or high-exposure as low levels of neutralising antibodies from existing vaccines may not be sufficient to neutralise the new variant- Omicron.

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10 months on, chief secretary of Maharashtra takes his first shot

Almost 10 months after Covid vaccination for frontline staff started, Maharashtra’s senior-most bureaucrat, acting chief secretary Debashish Chakrabarty, 59, took his first shot on Thursday at JJ Hospital in Byculla. “He took a Covaxin shot on Thursday,” confirmed a senior doctor at the hospital. Chakrabarty took charge after Sitaram Kunte retired three days back.

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Body lies in open, thanas use tapes to find out jurisdiction

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Omicron: Doctors' meet in Bengaluru super-spreader event?

An international medical conference at a star hotel in Bengaluru from November 19-21 is under the scanner after at least three doctors who attended it turned out to be Covid-positive, one of them with the Omicron variant.

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India worked for a year to get China off Lanka projects

It took India almost a year to get China out of three islands off Jaffna peninsula. In January 2021, India was surprised with an announcement that the Ceylon Electricity Board had decided to award a contract for building “hybrid renewable energy systems” in three islands off the coast of Jaffna to a Chinese company, Sino Soar Hybrid Technology.

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