The two-day integrated bilateral exercise amid Indian and the US forces in the Indian Ocean region completed on Thursday, June 24, 2021. The Indian Navy and Indian Air Force together took part with US Navy Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group in the Exercise. The exercise has facilitated interoperability and enhancing the defence coordination amid the…
India on Friday in an interactive discussion with Special Rapporteur over the subject of Right to Education amid the 47th session of UN Human Rights Council stated that it promotes the values of equality, social justice, and democracy via inclusive education. The Indian statement under Agenda item 3 said, “India is a diverse civilisation, which…
National Task Force (NTF) deployed by the Supreme Court has recommended a formula to identify the oxygen needs for the country while considering “all levels of care” with the current Covid-19 pandemic. For instance, the NTF in a report to the Supreme Court recommended that 1.5 metric tonnes (MT) of liquid medical oxygen will be…
The Karnataka state government has directed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to keep teachers away from Covid-19 duty starting immediately. Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar submitted the letter to BBMP Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta after recording complaints from the teachers about being put on Covid duty when the academic year will…
The Karnataka High Court granted approval of interim relief to Twitter India Managing Director Manish Maheshwari for the petition challenging the call issued to him by Ghaziabad police. Maheshwari, currently living in Bengaluru, had been called by the police officials with his relation to the viral video clip showing an elderly Muslim man being hit…
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi revealed to the reporters in a briefing on Thursday that any updates pertaining to the Emergency Use Listing (EUL) authorization of Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine by the World Health Organisation (WHO) are being closely monitored by the Centre. ANI cited Bagchi saying, “We are closely following…
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be commencing on a two-day bilateral tour to Greece scheduled from Friday to have a dialogue with his Greek counterpart, as per the statement released by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). After the visit to Greece, Jaishankar will proceed towards Italy to participate in the G20 Ministerial meeting,…
Amid the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meet held in Dushanbe on Wednesday, the National Security Advisors (NSAs) of the representative countries have together vowed to have cooperation in the mutual fight against international terrorism, extremism, and separatism. The NSAs had a dialogue over cooperation against rebellious radicalism along with the potential risk of increased transnational…
Messaging application Signal having end-to-end encryption is not adhering to the recent social media and intermediary guidelines, revealed the officials aware about the issue. The company is also supposedly under the Information Technology Act and the facility of safe harbour in it is not likely to be applicable due to the non-compliance, added the officials….
Bengaluru Urban, covered in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), is the exclusive district in the state of Karnataka which has administered 50 or more doses for every 100 people, as per the data given by Health and Medical Education Officer Dr. K Sudhakar. Sudhakar tweeted on Wednesday that the top five districts include Bengaluru…
