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Is ‘centralisation’ limiting vax drive?

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Vaccinate all 45+ in 2 weeks, says govt

The Centre on Tuesday said door-to-door vaccination against Covid-19 may not be feasible, even as it asked states to ensure 100% saturation of vaccination of the priority age group of those above 45 years in the next fortnight, particularly in high burden districts seeing a surge of fresh cases.
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No India variant of virus seen so far, says ICMR

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With 7.3 lakh tests/million, Delhi tops screening list

States seem to have taken the surge in coronavirus infections seriously with tests for Covid-19 going up by more than 38% over the last two weeks compared to the first half of March. Countrywide, the total samples tested have gone up from 97.89 lakh between March 1-14 to 1.35 crore during March 14-27.
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Shah, Mamata end Nandigram campaign with battle of rallies

A battle of roadshows brought the curtain down on the high-octane campaign in Nandigram on Tuesday, with Union home minister Amit Shah targeting Mamata Banerjee for her “silence” on the fatal assault on a BJP worker's octogenarian mother. The Bengal CM hit back by mocking him for "trying to break Trinamool", only to end up stoking dissension in BJP over poll tickets.
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'Had warned govt leaders against reinstating Waze'

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Assets got before offence not proceeds of crime: HC to ED

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Maharashtra: CM seeks roadmap for second lockdown, NCP & BJP oppose

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has directed the administration to draw up a roadmap for a second lockdown, a move that drew opposition from his own alliance partner, NCP, not to mention angry voices in BJP who warned of public protests. A decision may be likely on April 2 after a review. The instructions coincided with the state reporting an all-time high of over 40,000 cases.
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Stick the Suez-blocking ship Ever Given in more places it shouldn't be with this web app

The 400m-long container ship Ever Given has been firmly stuck in the Suez Canal for days now, holding up traffic and slowing global trade. It's a terrible situation economically , but a hilarious one in pretty much every other respect, with the stranded ship providing ample fodder for memes and jokes . Now a new web app is letting users visualize what the Ever Given might look like wedged into other places as well. Created by map enthusiast Garrett Dash Nelson , Glitch web app Ever Given Ever Ywhere allows users to plonk the large barge anywhere on a satellite map of the world. Want to drop it in the Hudson? Done. The Seine? No problem. Now you too can ruin everything by putting a big boat in places it shouldn't be. Read more... More about Ships , Web App , Culture , and Web Culture from Mashable https://ift.tt/3rwhYuO
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President gives assent to Bill that says 'government' in Delhi means 'LG'

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Terror acts in J&K, youths joining outfits have dipped

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Keep minimum age of 21 for availing ART: House panel

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Deshmukh 'accidental home minister', says Sena's Raut

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Co praises all-Indian crew of Suez ship

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CJI Bobde hails Goa’s uniform civil code

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India will match Chinese border infrastructure in 3 to 4 years: Rawat

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Daily Covid cases cross 60,000 for the first time in 160 days

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Night curfews, partial lockdowns don’t work: Harsh Vardhan

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Shared future with Bangladesh can be vaccine against radicalism: PM Modi

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Was sexually exploited, says girl in Karnataka CD

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Second wave peak in India likely in later half of April: SBI report

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Budget session records high productivity despite logjams

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5L cases pending in HCs, SC set to recall retired judges

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How people dress, what they eat isn't netas' business: Irani

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9 of 10 dists with most active cases are in Maharashtra

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45+ most vulnerable, account for 88% of Covid deaths: Govt

The government said the expansion of the vaccination drive to cover all above 45 years is intended to prioritise the group that is most vulnerable to the disease, accounting for 88% of the over 1.6 lakh Covid-19 deaths in India. The case fatality rate (CFR) in this group is 2.85%, against a national average of 1.37%, said the Centre even as it called upon states to intensify efforts to increase vaccinations and urged private hospitals to increase participation.
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Covid-19: ‘Double mutant’ among 771 variants found in 18 states

A total of 771 Covid variants, including a “double mutant”, have been found across 18 Indian states but there is no evidence to link the current surge in some states to these strains, officials said on Wednesday. States witnessing higher cases have revealed a different mutation profile but detected variants have been prevalent in the community for last six to eight months, National Centre for Disease Control director Sujeet Kumar Singh said.
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No risk of blood clotting from Covishield, says Niti’s Paul

There is no risk of thrombosis or blood clotting due to use of Covishield, Niti Aayog member-health Dr V K Paul said on Wednesday and urged people to get vaccinated without any fear. This comes in the wake of concerns about possible adverse events in people vaccinated with Covishield, a vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.
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Foreign donations received over 4 years by NGOs under FCRA totalled over Rs 51,000cr

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BJP team urges Maha guv to send report to Centre

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MVA orders judicial probe into ‘letter bomb’, seeks report on phone tapping

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Kashmir event rejects ‘flawed’ jihad interpretation, fights radicalisation

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Take steps to curb use of public funds on polls: HC

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BJP releases Assam poll promises, silent on CAA

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‘People of West Bengal are fighting the polls, half of TMC has left the party’

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Saamna calls Singh a BJP pawn, warns of ‘fire’ if govt threatened

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Absolute political consensus on Maratha quota: Maha to SC

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Astra Covid vaccine found to be 79% effective in US study

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Charges against Deshmukh aimed at derailing probe: Pawar

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Matua body flexes muscles, seeks tickets from BJP, TMC

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800 defence personnel died by suicide in last 7 years: Govt

Almost 800 personnel of Army, Navy and IAF died by suicide in the last seven years, while there were 20 cases of “fratricide”, once again underlining the need for better suicide prevention and stress management policies in the over 14-lakh strong armed forces.The over 12-lakh Army lost 591 soldiers to suicide since 2014, while the number was 160 in IAF and 36 in Navy, said minister of state for defence Shripad Naik, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Monday.
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That 2006 Jack Dorsey tweet NFT just sold for $2.9 million (LOL)

Jack Dorsey just sold his fist tweet Sort of .  If you're confused by that combination of words, then congrats, you're literate. On Monday, the Twitter CEO confirmed that, after listing the platform's very first tweet on the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Valuables in December, an NFT associated with the 2006 tweet sold for over $2.9 million worth of cryptocurrency. "just setting up my twttr," reads the tweet.  just setting up my twttr — jack (@jack) March 21, 2006 The NFT, which is essentially an agreed upon and (at at least theoretically) verifiable ownership claim of, in this case, a tweet that the Valuables FAQ makes clear "stays on twitter," was purchased by Bridge Oracle CEO Sina Estavi . Read more... More about Twitter , Jack Dorsey , Nft , Tech , and Cryptocurrency Blockchain from Mashable https://ift.tt/3vQumsZ
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Domestic violence cases dipped 4.5% in 2019: NCRB

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Adhikari family patriarch & veteran TMC MP joins BJP

Trinamool Congress’ three-time Kanthi MP Sisir Adhikari joined BJP on Sunday in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah in East Midnapore’s Egra, ending a decades-long association with Mamata Banerjee’s party that had been hanging by a thread for three months since
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Ground zero of Nandigram farm protest now a shrimp export hub

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Same woman on AIADMK, DMK posters

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BJP ups attack on Uddhav, says he can’t stay in office

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Suspended inspector alleges Param Bir has ‘links to underworld’

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ED to probe Mumbai ‘extortion racket’, waiting for NIA to share FIR against Waze

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TMC latches on to PMAY ad ‘lie’, BJP rubbishes its claims

Trinamool Congress on Sunday alleged that the photograph of a woman used in a newspaper advertisement last month to showcase the Union government’s signature scheme Pradha Mantri Awas Yojana alongside a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is actually that of a middle aged woman from
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