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2021-07-01 14:28:33 Seven European Union (EU) nations have ceded to India’s demand to include Covishield, the vaccine developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and manufactured in India, in the list of jabs that qualify for the "Green Pass" – which allows vaccinated people to travel freely in the bloc – Indian government sources said on Thursday Open / Comment

2021-07-01 13:59:38 Gujarat is facing an acute shortage of vaccine doses in all major cities, with people in the age group of 18-44 unable to receive their first shot even after waiting for their turn for more than 12 hours and returning home frustrated Open / Comment

2021-07-01 11:08:54 'The severe heat wave' condition will continue in India's capital, Haryana and west Rajasthan for the next six-seven days, with temperatures rising over 40 degrees Celsius everyday.

Lack of rainfall and hot winds blowing from Rajasthan were factors which brought on the severe weather condition, India's Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

On Thursday, the maximum temperature will hover around 42 degrees Celsius in Delhi, the IMD said Open / Comment

2021-07-01 10:58:58 Chinese President Xi Jinping has cautioned that foreign forces attempting to bully the nation will "get their heads bashed", and hailed a "new world" created by the people of China.

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2021-07-01 04:09:10 Catch up on our latest updates:

Former BJP MP from Sant Kabir Nagar, Sharad Tripathi, died at age 49 on Wednesday night at a hospital in Gurugram.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik disbursed Rs 386 crore as a COVID-19 package for landless farmers across the state.

Three Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists were killed in an encounter in Kulgam, Jammu and Kashmir. Open / Comment

2021-06-30 19:48:26 After the results of West Bengal elections were declared on 2 May, the state witnessed 15,000 incidents of violence, claims Call For Justice, a fact-finding team headed by former Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court Permod Kohli.

At least 7,000 women were also molested during the post-poll violence in the state, the probe team found.

"This is a clear indication that most of the incidents are not sporadic but premeditated, organised, and conspiratorial", the report stated.

They submitted their report to the federal government. Open / Comment

2021-06-30 17:05:33 Hundreds of nurses walked out of their duties in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday to protest against hospital authorities and the BJP-led state government.

Talking to Sputnik, protesting nurses from Jabalpur city shared that they want stable jobs for junior staff, proper pension provisions, and compensation for the families of nurses who lost their lives treating COVID patients, among other demands.

"We have given nine straight months to taking care of COVID patients at our respective hospitals. We put others' lives before us. And yet, our efforts have gone unacknowledged by the government”, J. Masih, a young nurse from Jabalpur who was protesting with her colleagues, told Sputnik. Open / Comment

2021-06-30 16:12:24 A video clip of an extraordinary wedding scene from the Kishan Ganj district of Bihar has gone viral on Twitter.

The clip shows the groom, dressed in a cream-coloured traditional Indian attire of "sherwani", sporting a turban - making an extra effort to ensure his bride's "lehenga" dress does not get wet in the flood.

He can be seen lifting his bride on his shoulders to take her back home safely after the wedding. Open / Comment

2021-06-30 14:56:15 A new survey by the US-based Pew Research Centre has found that following Hindu religious beliefs and being able to speak Hindi is considered a "very important" aspect of being “truly Indian” by the majority of the population in the country of 1.3 billion people.

“Hindus tend to see their religious identity and Indian national identity as closely intertwined: Nearly two-thirds of Hindus (64%) say it is very important to be Hindu to be truly Indian”, the survey findings indicate.

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2021-06-30 14:02:33 A man in Mumbai allegedly poisoned his three children adding rat poison to ice cream, police reported Wednesday.

According to the police, the accused allegedly did it after a fight at home last Friday, causing the death of one child.

The man has been arrested, and an investigation is underway. Open / Comment