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A major security breach in Lok Sabha December 13, 2023 16:12

On the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack, there was a significant breach in security as two individuals entered Lok Sabha on Wednesday. These individuals took out canisters emitting yellow-colored smoke from their shoes while seated in the visitors' gallery. Television footage captured them leaping from desk to desk, seemingly making their way towards the Well of the House. Members of the House later informed reporters that the protesters were chanting slogans such as "tana shahi nahi chalegi" (dictatorship won't be accepted). The protesters have been apprehended. Additionally, two more protesters, identified as Amol from Latur (Maharashtra) and Neelam from Hisaar (Haryana), were detained near Transport Bhavan, which is located close to the Parliament complex. One of the individuals who entered Lok Sabha has been identified as Sagar Sharma, while the identity of the other individual is still undisclosed. After the proceedings reconvened, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla informed the House that preliminary investigation suggests the smoke emitted from the canisters was "harmless" and not a cause for concern. He further stated that an ongoing investigation is being conducted. As I glanced up, I witnessed an individual descending from the upper section designated for visitors. Coincidentally, at the same time, another gentleman was leaping from desk to desk. "I observed one of them extracting an object emitting a trail of smoke from his footwear. The security staff successfully apprehended them, but their identities, motives, and affiliations are yet to be determined," he further stated. (Video Source: NDTV)

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Indian Government Approves Nasal Vaccine For Covid-19 December 23, 2022 13:42

The government of India today approved the use of Nasal vaccine for coronavirus and it will be used as a heterologous booster. The nasal vaccine will be added to Co-Win portal today and it would be available in all the private hospitals. "Central Government approves the use of Bharat Biotech Nasal Vaccine. The vaccine is available on the CoWIN App starting today. Nasal vaccines are currently only available in private hospitals. The two drops of @BharatBiotech Nasal Vaccine can be taken by people who have already been administered Covishield and Covaxin vaccines" told the official statement of Prasar Bharati News. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high level meeting yesterday to assess the situation of coronavirus in the country after the scare of the new variant of coronavirus. The two drops of @BharatBiotech Nasal Vaccine can be taken by people who have already been administered Covishield and Covaxin vaccines@MoHFW_INDIA #COVID19 #CovidVaccines — Prasar Bharati News Services & Digital Platform (@PBNS_India) December 23, 2022 Bharat Biotech’s nasal Covid vaccine will be available from today. Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka reviewed the preparations for Covid-19 as per the update. All the international passengers arriving to India are screened and tested randomly. As there are no direct flights between India and China, all the needed precautions are taken. Modi wanted the officials to be ready with the needed infrastructure and equipment. Genome sequencing also turned out to be the point of discussion after the outbreak of the recent coronavirus variant. The Centre also raised objections over the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi and this triggered controversies. The yatra will soon go to Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi said that he received a letter about the same.

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WhatsApp Outage For An Hour Across The Globe October 25, 2022 16:06

Messaging app WhatsApp was completely down and the entire globe suffered the outage. After more than a hour of outage, WhatsApp was restored partially and is working in most of the countries. Some of them complained that WhatsApp is not working from 14 hours. The partial restoration is done in most of the cities of India and other nations. The users struggled to send and receive messages. Both personal and group chats have been impacted completely. The hashtag #WhatsAppDown is trending on Twitter. The users from India, Kenya, Indonesia, Spain and others complained about the messaging app. WhatsApp is yet to issue an official statement about the same. In October last year, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are down for six hours because of a major DNS failure. DNS is Domain Name System that can translate human-readable hostmanes to raw numberic IP address. The computers cannot connect to the servers if DNS is not working. WhatsApp was down for 45 minutes in March 2021. WhatsApp or Meta will provide the information about the outage very soon. The web version too got impacted on October 25th and the people have found it difficult to send messages through WhatsApp. After WhatsApp was down last year, it hit the trading of assets from oil to the cryptocurrencies. Several people have prefered to use alternate platforms like Telagram.

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Jacqueline Fernandez Granted Bail In Extortion Case September 26, 2022 12:40

Sri Lankan beauty Jacqueline Fernandez established herself in Bollywood and the actress is quite busy. The actress has been in news from the past few months after her name was involved in a Rs 200 crore extortion case of conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar. Jacqueline Fernandez was drilled by the officials of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) several times in the recent weeks. Jacqueline Fernandez was asked to appear before the Patiala Court in New Delhi and the actress was granted bail on bond of Rs 50,000. Her lawyers filed a bail petition and the court granted bail for Jacqueline Fernandez. The next hearing in this case is scheduled for October 22nd. The officials of the Enforcement Directorate filed a supplementary chargesheet before the Prevention of Money Laundering Act Court. Jacqueline Fernandez was named as an accused in the case. The actress received several costly gifts from Sukesh Chandrasekhar and the conman was lodged in Tihar jail from the past few months. The investigation about the money laundering is happening currently. Jacqueline Fernandez was drilled for hours several times by the Delhi Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW). Jacqueline Fernandez who had a relationship has decided to cut down with Sukesh after he was arrested in the money laundering case.

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Narendra Modi To Launch 5G Services On October 1st September 24, 2022 17:31

The biddings for the 5G Spectrum are closed recently and Reliance, Airtel majorly. The National Broadband Mission owned by the Indian government informed that the 5G services will be launched in India on October 1st. The 5G services will be launched through a grand event. "Taking India's digital transformation & connectivity to new heights, Hon'ble PM, @narendramodi, will roll out 5G services in India; at India Mobile Congress; Asia's largest technology exhibition" told the official statement of National Broadband Mission. The official web portal of the India Mobile Congress stated the 5G services inauguration event will be done by Narendra Modi. India Mobile Congress (IMC) claims to b the largest media, technology and telecom forum in Asia. It is jointly run by the Department of Telecommunications and Cellular Operators Association of India. Several programs are planned between October 1st and 4th and will be focused on the evolution path of existing technology. Ashwini Vaishnav, the Electronics and Information Technology Minister stated that India is all set to roll 5G services from October. The service will be extended to every corner of the country in the next 2-3 years. The thumb rule for 5G is 100 Mbps. The 4G rule is 60-70 Mbps. The Department of Telecom received bids worth Rs 1.50 lakh crores from the auction through spectrum. Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Adani Group are the major participants in the auction.

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Stampede At Gymkhana Ground In Hyderabad Injures Four September 22, 2022 16:08

The third T20 between India and Australia is scheduled to take place in Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal, Hyderabad on September 25th, Sunday. The tickets are announced to be sold from today in Gymkhana Ground and the crowds rushed for tickets early in the morning. The cops could not control the crowds in the Gymkhana Ground and a stampede took place this afternoon. Four people got injured in the incident and they are rushed to a private hospital in the city. The cops started lathi charge to control the situation. A video of the incident that is shared by ANI is now going viral all over. The Hyderabad cops are spotted beating the youth and people near the Gymkhana Ground. #WATCH | Telangana: A stampede broke out at Gymkhana Ground after a huge crowd of cricket fans gathered there to get tickets for #INDvsAUS match, scheduled for 25th Sept at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Police baton charged to disperse the crowd4 people injured pic.twitter.com/J2OiP1DMlH — ANI (@ANI) September 22, 2022 Australia is leading the T20 series by 1-0 in the three-match series. The team chased a mamooth 209 in the first T20 match. There is huge demand for the tickets for the other two matches. The Hyderabad Cricket Association is slammed and trolled for the poor arrangements. They could not predict the massive crowds and the security arrangements were not upto the mark. The cops used batons to control the crowds at the Gymkhana Ground in Secunderabad. The people who were present at the grounds are much higher than the tickets that are being sold. After the showers started, the people tried to reach the nearby gate after which the stampede took place. C Deepti, DCP, North Zone, Hyderabad told that they tried hard to control the situation. Four cops were injured in the incident. The tickets were planned to be sold from 10 AM till 7 PM.

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Eknath Shinde to Take Oath as the New Chief Minister of Maharashtra June 30, 2022 17:22

After 40 MLAs turned Rebels, the government of Maharashtra is left in minority. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray submitted his resignation even before facing the floor test. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has been holding talks with the rebel MLAs. As per the update, Eknath Shinde will take the oath as the new Chief Minister of the state today at 7 PM. Rebel MLAs Chief Eknath Shinde along with Devendra Fadnavis reached the Raj Bhavan to meet the Governor BS Koshyari. After this, they attended the media briefing and Fadnavis announced that Eknath Shinde will take oath as the new Chief Minister of the state. The roads heading to and from airport are completely blocked to facilitate Eknath Shinde's convoy. Shinde landed in Mumbai today from Goa. Devendra Fadnavis declared that he would return as the Chief Minister right before the 2019 polls. After the BJP and Shiv Sena alliance broke up, Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was formed in which Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP are members. The alliance collapsed soon and Devendra Fadnavis plauued a crucial role in dethroning the government from power. Eknath Shinde has been taking the control of the rebel MLAs who were shifted to Gujarat and then to Assam. They were in Goa yesterday. The new cabinet of Eknath Shinde will be announced soon. By Siva Kumar

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35.22 Percent Jump in the Daily Coronavirus Cases June 02, 2022 14:59

On Thursday, India reported a jump of 35.22 percent of the cases in the daily coronavirus cases. As per the reports from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 3712 new cases of coronavirus are reported and the positivity rate came up to 0.84 percent and it was 0.60 percent on Wednesday. The weekly positivity rate reported is 0.67 percent and India reported 2745 new cases of coronavirus yesterday and the active cases increased to 18,386. Mumbai alone reported 739 new cases of coronavirus and this is the highest since February 4th. There were no fatalities reported due to coronavirus. The total cases of coronavirus reported in India are said to be 4,31,64,544. There are 19,509 active cases of Covid-19 as of today and the total number of recoveries climbed to 4,26,20,394. The death toll in India climbed to 5,24,641. The total tests for coronavirus conducted in India are 85,13,38,595 and the total vaccination doses administered are 1,93,70,51,104. The doses given in India yesterday are 12,44,298. The active cases comprise of 0.04 percent of the total reported cases. The recovery rate in India stands at 98.74 percent as per the reports from the Union Health Ministry. Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana and Karnataka are the states that reported high number of cases in the country. The government of India asked the people to be extra cautious as the cases are increasing. By Siva Kumar

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Ukraine War: Indian student killed in Kharkiv March 01, 2022 17:40

The Indian government has been trying hard to evacuate all the Indian students and working professionals from Ukraine after Russia staged an attack on the country. A series of flights departed from Ukraine and reached India in the last couple of days. In an unfortunate incident, an Indian student passed away in Kharkiv on Tuesday morning as per the official statement from the Ministry of External Affairs. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi issued a statement that told "With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family.We convey our deepest condolences to the family". The Indian student is Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar who is 20 years and he hails from Karnataka. Naveen is pursuing his fourth year medicine at Kharkiv National Medical University. Naveen was shot dead at 10:30 AM as per the local time today. He was standing before a grocery store when the Russian army opened fire and Naveen was killed on spot. There is no information about the mortal remains of Naveen as of now. The Indian Embassy in holding talks with the government of Ukraine to trace the body of Naveen. More than 70 people of Ukraine were killed after Russia staged rocket attacks. The Indian Embassy in Kyiv issued an advisory for all the Indians to return back to the country at the earliest through any available means. Reacting to the death of the Indian student in Kharkiv, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offered his condolences to the family. By Siva Kumar

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India reports 13,166 new cases of Covid-19 February 25, 2022 14:42

A total number of 13,166 new cases of coronavirus are reported in the country in the last 24 hours taking the total tally of reported cases in total reach 4,28,94,345. With 26,988 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries climbed to 4,22,46,884. There are 1,34,235 active cases in the country which are equal to 0.31 percent of the total cases. The daily positivity rate is 1.28 percent. 302 people passed away in India yesterday and the total death tally climbed to 5,13,226. The total number of Indian vaccination doses administered in India are said to be 1,76,86,89,266. The new and the active cases saw a huge decline in the country and the restrictions are lifted. As per the reports from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the total number of samples that are tested for Covid-19 in India till date are said to be 76,494,525 and the samples that are tested yesterday are said to be 10,30,016. The national recovery rate is 98.49 percent and the Indian government revealed that more than 11 crore vaccination doses of coronavirus are unused by the states and union territories. Andaman and Nicobar Islands reported no cases of coronavirus. The new cases of coronavirus reported today are 7 percent lower than yesterday. The active cases in all the states witnessed a huge decline and the Indian states, union territories lifted the restrictions. By Siva Kumar

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1,72,433 new Covid-19 cases reported in India February 03, 2022 15:22

A total number of 1,72,433 cases are reported in the last 24 hours in India and the new cases are 6.8 percent higher than yesterday. 2,59,107 people recovered from coronavirus in the past one day and the death toll has been increasing on a regular basis. 1008 people died in the last 24 hours and there are 15,33,921 active cases for coronavirus in India. The death tally in total in India is said to be 4,98,983. The daily positivity rate saw a huge decline when compared to the past one week and it stands at 10.99 percent. The total number of vaccine doses administered for coronavirus in the country are said to be 167.87 crores. The total number of cases reported in India till date are 4,18,03,318 and the total recoveries are said to be 3,97,70,414. USA, India, Brazil, France and United Kingdom are the countries that are badly impacted due to coronavirus. USA is on the top of the list with more than 7.5 crore cases and India stands second with 4.1 crore cases. The fatality rate in India is said to be 1.19 percent. As per the reports from the Union Health Ministry, the weekly positivity rate is 12.98 percent. Maharashtra reported 18,067 new cases and Mumbai reported 1128 cases. Delhi reported 3028 cases and Karnataka reported 20,505 new cases and Kerala has 52,199 new cases. As per the reports, 94.48 crore people received just one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 71.93 crore people received both the doses of the vaccine. By Siva Kumar

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India reports 2,38,018 new cases of Coronavirus January 18, 2022 14:30

A total number of 2,38,018 new cases of coronavirus are reported in the country in the last 24 hours in India. The new cases are 20,071 less than yesterday which may be a good sign but the spread of coronavirus is huge. 1,57,421 people recovered from coronavirus in the last 24 hours in India. There are 17,36,628 active cases of coronavirus in India and 310 people passed away in the last 24 hours. The daily positivity rate increased again and it stands at 14.43 percent. The total number of Omicron cases reported in India are 8891 and the increase is by 8.31 percent when compared to yesterday. More than 3.5 crore youngsters aged between 15 and 18 years received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The precautionary doses are given for the frontline workers in the country along with the people who are aged above 60 years. As per the reports, India will begin vaccinating the children aged between 12 and 14 years from March this year. Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D are the vaccines approved for children. The recovery rate in India is said to be 94.09 percent. Andhra Pradesh ex-Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has been tested positive for coronavirus and he is in isolation. Most of the states ruled out the option of lockdown and decided to impose night curfews and restrictions in public places. The weekly positivity rate in the country is said to be 14.92 percent. The total number of vaccine doses administered in India till date are said to be 158.04 crores and close to 80 lakh vaccine doses are administered yesterday. As per a study, some of the coronavirus patients may be infectious even after 10 days of completing their quarantine period. The entire research has been published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. By Siva Kumar

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