INDIA
Plea in SC against FIRs for posters questioning PM for Covid vax exports
The petition, filed by advocate Pradeep Kumar Yadav, said that posters were found pasted on walls and boards with the message: "Modi ji humare bachon ka vaccine videsh kyon bhej diya?" (Why did you send our children's vaccines abroad?). Police, in all the districts where the posters were found, registered FIRs under the Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, the Delhi Disaster Management Act and the Indian Penal Code.
4524 new Covid cases in Delhi as high casualties cause for concern
It has witnessed a sharp decline in daily positive case and positivity rate for around the last two weeks. During the peak of the second wave of the Covid pandemic, on April 20, Delhi's daily positive cases were reported at 28, 395, while the highest daily positivity rate was 36 per cent on April 22. Even if the new infections continued to dip in Delhi, the daily deaths figure remained on the higher side.
Bleeding, clotting events after vaccination minuscule in India: Report
Alerts were raised in some countries on post-vaccination "embolic and thrombotic events" on March 11 this year, particularly with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine (Covishield in India), said the report. A decision was taken to conduct an urgent in-depth analysis of the adverse events (AE) in India in the light of the global concerns.
Governor asks Mamata to follow rule of law
"Concerned about the alarming situation. Call upon @MamataOfficial to follow constitutional norms & rule of law. Police @WBPolice @KolkataPolice @HomeBengal must take all steps to maintain law & order. Sad -- situation is being allowed to drift with no tangible action by authorities," the governor tweeted after violence erupted in front of the gate of the CBI regional office at Nizam Palace on Monday morning.
ISRO to share portable medical oxygen concentrator technology
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that its rocket centre VSSC has developed medical oxygen concentrator 'Shwaas', which can deliver an enriched level (over 95 per cent) of oxygen than in air to support patients with respiratory illness or who are on oxygen therapy.
Cyclone Tauktae: 410 stranded on barges, Indian Navy ships to the rescue
In the first instance, 273 persons are struggling on a drifting barge near the Heera Oilfield at Bombay High Fields of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), around 175 km from Mumbai. Following an SOS from the Barge P305 which is adrift near the oilfields with the crew and ONGC personnel on board, the Indian Navy has dispatched two ships INS Kochi and INS Talwar to render assistance.
WhatsApp to Delhi HC: No deferment of privacy policy, trying to get users on board
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing WhatsApp, submitted before a bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh that it is trying to get users on board, but if they do not agree to the privacy policy, then the company will slowly delete these user accounts.
Politicians have no business to hoard Covid medicines: Delhi HC
A bench comprising Justices Vipin Sanghi and Jasmeet Sanghi expressed dissatisfaction on the Delhi Police status report in connection with the allegations of politicians involved in hoarding and distributing Covid-19 medicines, including Remdesivir, in the capital.
Apollo Hospitals launches pilot programme for Sputnik vaccine
The first phase of the programme will kick-off with vaccinations in Hyderabad on Monday (May 17, 2021) and in Visakhapatnam on Tuesday (May 18, 2021) at separate facilities at the Apollo Hospitals in those cities. The vaccinations would follow the SOPs as recommended by the government including registration on CoWIN.
Mamata Banerjee starts dharna at CBI's Kolkata office
Banerjee rushed to the 15th floor of the 'Nizam Palace' where the CBI has the office of its anti-corruption cell. Her spokesperson, lawyer Anindyo Raut told waiting media persons: "Didi (Banerjee) will not leave this CBI office until her party colleagues are released or until she is also arrested."
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