15-year-old Indian-American Gitanjali Rao, a “brilliant” young scientist and inventor, has been named by TIME magazine as the first-ever ‘Kid of the Year’ for her “astonishing work” using technology to tackle issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying. The world belongs to those who shape it. And however uncertain that world may feel at a given moment, the reassuring reality seems to be that each new generation produces more of what these kids…have already achieved: positive impact, in all sizes,” Time said. Rao was selected from a field of more than 5,000 nominees as TIME’s first-ever…
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Moderna Inc said on Thursday it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine available globally in the first quarter of 2021. The company said 85 million to 100 million of those doses would be available in the United States, with 15 million to 25 million available outside the country. The first-quarter doses are within the 500 million to up to 1 billion doses the company expects to manufacture globally in 2021, Moderna said. Results from an early-stage trial showed that the vaccine, mRNA-1273, produced high levels of binding and neutralizing antibodies that declined slightly…
The Union government has called an all-party meeting to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic situation today, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to interact with floor leaders of various parties from both Houses of parliament. The Parliamentary Affairs Ministry was coordinating the meeting and had extended invitation to all parties, they said. Floor leaders of all parties from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been invited for the meeting, which will be held virtually on Friday from 10.30 am onwards.Amid rumblings of discontentment within the party, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called a virtual meeting of state- and district-level leaders of the…
The farmers are protesting against The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. Thousands of farmers reached Delhi on November 27 and assembled at the border areas to continue their protest against the three farms law .Members of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee protest in front of the Odisha assembly in Bhubaneswar in support of farmers’ protest in Delhi. “We want Centre to withdraw farm laws that can destroy farmers and agriculture,” says farmer leader…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed restrictions on the HDFC Bank following recent outages in internet and mobile banking.The banking regulator has also asked the private lender to halt all its digital launches under Digital 2.0 plan. “We wish to inform you that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued an Order dated December 02, 2020 (“Order”) to HDFC Bank Limited (the “Bank”) with regard to certain incidents of outages in the internet banking/ mobile banking/ payment utilities of the Bank over the past 2 years, including the recent outages in the Bank’s internet banking and payment…
A political party will be launched in January; Announcement regarding it will be made on December 31st, tweeted actor Rajinikanth. “Mathuvom – ellaththaiyum maathuvom – ippo illenna eppavumae illai” (Let us transform everything; If not now, it will be never),” Rajinikanth said in a tweet. Announcing the news on Twitter, the actor said, “Party will be started in January, date will announced on December 31.” “In the upcoming assembly elections, with people’s massive support, spiritual politics will emerge in Tamil Nadu. This spiritual politics will be characterised by virtues like honesty, transparency, incorruptibility and would be bereft of casteist and communal…
Despite the increase in COVID-19 cases in the National Capital, the AAP government on Thursday told the High Court that no night curfew would be imposed in Delhi, or parts of it, for now, to contain the spread of coronavirus. Delhi govt also informed the Delhi HC that it has collected over Rs 17 Cr as fine against over 2 lakh challans issued in respect of COVID violations. Delhi Govt also informed HC that Delhi Police has so far collected fine of over Rs 27 cr against over 5 lakh challans issued. The submission was made before a bench of Justices…
Disabled Jayakumar Yadav, resident of village Amera of Palari development block of the district, will start wandering in the village and sell gram-murra from tomorrow. On the occasion of International Day of the Disabled, the State Government’s Social Welfare Department received a free motor-driven tricycle. Jaikumar is not happy about getting a motorized three wheeler in the hands of District Collector Mr. Sunil Jain. Jai Kumar showed the collector by running a tricycle at the venue and gave him thanks. Mr. Yadav said that he does not have one leg completely. In the year 2004, he lost a leg in a road accident. He got a…
Panchayat and Rural Development, Public Health and Family Welfare, Public Health, Medical Education, 20 Point Implementation, Commercial Tax (GST) Minister Shri TS Singh Dev arrived here today on a brief stay at Narayanpur. There was a warm welcome by the people’s representatives on their first arrival. Health Minister Mr. Singhdev arrived at the heliped Ramakrishna Mishram Ashram at 11 am. MP of Bastar parliamentary constituency Mr. Deepak Badge, President of Handicap Development Board and Narayanpur MLA Mr. Chandan Kashyap, District Panchayat President Mrs. Shyambati Netam, Municipality President Mrs. Sunita Manjhi, District Panchayat Vice President Mr. Jageshwar Usandi, Municipal Vice President Mr. Pramod Apart…
The Department of Revenue and Disaster Management of the Government of Chhattisgarh grants financial assistance to the victims of natural disasters in various districts of the state through the District Collector under the provisions of the Revenue Book Circular. Under Revenue Book Circular 6-4, financial assistance of four lakh rupees has been sanctioned to the families of the victims of Mr. Chiragdeep Chauhan of village Kunkuri of Kunkuri Tehsil of Jashpur district who died due to drowning in water. Similarly, Shri Kailash Bhagat of Village Sardih, Shri Budhanath Ram of Village Kudamudra, Mr. Jayanandaram of Village Harradip, Mr. Rohandas of Village…