INDIA
MHA withdraws 'Y+' category security of TMC leader Mukul Roy
The development comes after Roy recently rejoined the Trinamool Congress from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Roy's son Subhrangshu's CISF protection was also withdrawn last week. The security withdrawal is reportedly initiated after Roy's written request to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The TMC leader made the request to the Central government to withdraw his security soon after he rejoined TMC.
Atmospheric conditions not favourable for monsoon in Delhi, 4 other states
There could be slow progress into some parts of Uttar Pradesh during the next five days in association with the existing cyclonic circulation over east Uttar Pradesh in the lower levels.
The IMD has predicted partly cloudy sky with light rain or thundershower, accompanied with wind (speed up to 30-40 kmph) on Thursday. However, the maximum temperature is likely to hover around 37 degrees Celsius here in the national capital.
Propaganda plaint against Twitter, its India MD, actor Swara Bhaskar, journalist Arfa Khanum
Two days after Ghaziabad Police booked Twitter Inc, Twitter Communication India Pvt Ltd and others, more troubles are brewing for the US-based social media giant as a complaint has been filed against it, it's India MD Manish Maheshwari, Bollywood actor Swara Bhaskar, journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani and others for giving communal colour without fact checking truthfulness of an incident.
Covid 19 Update: India records 67K new cases, 2,330 deaths
This is the 10th consecutive day when India has reported less than one lakh Covid cases. On June 15, India recorded 60,461 cases, lowest since March 29. India's overall tally of Covid-19 cases now stands at 2,97,00,313. The active cases have come down below 10 lakh. The country has 8,26,740 active cases presently and has witnessed 3,81,903 deaths so far.
Special Cell questioned Twitter MD in alleged Congress toolkit case on May 31
A team went to Maheshwari's house on May 31 in Bengaluru to record his statement, an official said, adding that the Twitter MD was asked how the social media site tagged the tweets of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as manipulated media. The Congress has accused BJP of forgery and cheating and had approached the Delhi Police with a complaint against Patra, BJP national President JP Nadda, Union Minister Smriti Irani and several others.
Loser generally goes to court, not winner, says Paras
Paras currently has support of five (including him) out of six LJP MPs and has been recognised as its leader in the Lok Sabha."During the 2019 parliamentary election, I was the one who spearheaded the campaign and achieved unbelievable success. We won 6 out of 6 seats in Bihar and our vote percentage was highest compared to other political parties in the country," Paras said.
99% fully vaccinated healthcare workers remained safe: Fortis study
Fortis said that after receiving both the doses, only 6 per cent staff got infected. Amon those who got infected, 92 percent were mildly infected, while 7 percent developed moderate illness requiring oxygen support and only 1 per cent developed severe illness requiring ICU. In the absence of an established cure for Covid-19, mass inoculation through safe and effective vaccines along with Covid appropriate behaviour are the best tools to control the pandemic.
Delhi now has adequate Covid vaccines for all categories: Atishi
Presenting the daily health bulletin, party lawmaker Atishi said: "Delhi has received 62,160 doses of Covaxin and 1,73,340 doses of Covishield yesterday (June 15). Adequate vaccine stock is available in Delhi even for the above 45 years age category." She said that Delhi has 2.55 lakh doses available for 18-44 age groups with 6 days stock of Covaxin and 11 days of Covishield.
Delhi reports 212 new Covid cases, 25 deaths
A total of 25 persons succumbed to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the national capital's overall death toll to 24,876. Continuing the trend, daily recoveries again outnumbered the tally of new cases by a fair margin, as 516 people recovered from the disease on Wednesday, taking the national capital's total number of recoveries to 14, 04,085.
'Infringement of liberty': SC shocked as bail plea not listed for over a year
In fact, the denial of hearing is an infringement of right and liberty assured to an accused." While observing that the top court normally does not interfere with an interim order passed by the High Court, the bench added: "We are shocked to see that the bail application under Section 439 CrPC is not being listed for hearing for more than one year."
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