The Delhi government announced fresh curbs on December 28 as part of the “yellow alert” to contain the fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Schools, colleges and other educational institutions in Delhi will remain closed until further orders, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) said.
Schools and colleges in Delhi were ordered shut earlier this month due to air pollution in the capital.They reopened for physical classes just two weeks ago.
Delhi night curfew timings will now be from 10 pm to 5 am.
The fresh restrictions have been enforced following the biggest single-day spike in infections in six months in Delhi. Yesterday, the city recorded 331 new cases.
Delhi’s share of Omicron cases has gone from 2-3 per cent to 25-30 per cent in two weeks.
Nanoparticle Vax for emergency;
New Delhi:
The country's proud and exemplary strides on the vaccines manufacturing front continues unabated.
The new Anti-viral drug Molnupiravir will be now available "for restricted use in emergency situations," tweetedUnion Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya.
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"Congratulations India. Further strengthening the fight against COVID-19, CDSCO, in Ministry of HFW_INDIA has given 3 approvals in a single day for: - CORBEVAX vaccine
- COVOVAX vaccine, - Anti-viral drug Molnupiravir," he wrote.
The Minister said, "Molnupiravir, an antiviral drug, will now be manufactured in the country by 13 companies for restricted use under emergency situations for treatment of adult patients with COVID-19 and who have high risk of progression of the disease".
On the Nanoparticle Vaccine, COVOVAX, he said, it will be manufactured by Pune-based firm Serum Institute of India.
"PM @NarendraModi Ji has led the battle against #COVID19 from the front. All these approvals will further strengthen the global fight against the pandemic. Our Pharma Industries are asset for the entire world," he wrote onthe micro blogging site.
He also tweeted to declare that 'CORBEVAX vaccine' will be India's 1st indigenously developed RBD protein sub-unit vaccine against COVID19.
This is manufactured by Hyderabad-based firm Biological-E.
"It's a hat-trick! It's now the 3rd vaccine developed in India," he said.
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Modi shows ruthlessness, prepares gen-next BJP leaders
New Delhi: Another year, another Milestone. Moditva strikes. In reflection of his no-nonsense ruthless political leadership with an ear on ground commitment, the drastic cabinet reshuffle in July was the high point of BJP politics in circa 2021.
Youngsters have been elevated, some old woods and veterans pulled aside, a few dropped, and women and deprived castes were given adequate representation. In simpler language, displaying yet again the visionary touch, the 'Moditva' phenomenon in its vintage form now has prepared BJP for the next generation.
Anurag Thakur from small state Himachal Pradesh was rewarded, and on the other hand, Kiren Rijiju from Arunachal has been given the Law portfolio. The Health Ministry honour and tough assignment came to Mansukh Mandaviya, a lawmaker from Gujarat, known as a workaholic.
Among the new faces, Jyotiraditya Scindia was made the new Civil Aviation Minister, and the most creamy assignments went to Ashwini Vaishnaw from Odisha-who was given railways and communications and IT. In the process, India got its youngest cabinet. The marathon 'reboot' exercise ensured ministerial berths for 12 Scheduled Caste, eight tribal, 27 OBC faces, and 11 women.
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, a first-time MP from Inner Manipur seat, became MoS for MEA and Education and New Delhi MP, Meenakshi Lekhi, made MoS for MEA and Culture.
PM Modi also made one of his youngsters Piyush Goyal the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, and three key ministers, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar, were dropped.
The BJP's return to power in Assam and taking on the might of so-called 'Mamata popularity' in Bengal head-on and pushing the communists and the Congress into the margins show the saffron party has come of age.
The refrains, perhaps, the BJP could have done better in fiercely contested polls wherein minorities Muslims unashamedly gathered behind 'a readily appeasing' Mamata shows people only have higher expectations from the saffron party. BJP was dismissed as a party of 'upper castes' not long ago. Things were changed in some northern states earlier.
In the 2021 battle of Bengal, the Lotus party could rope in support of backward castes - Rajbongshis and Namasudras-despite the Hindutva politics. A political philosophy–‘Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan’ was made 'acceptable' for the people, and thus ‘Jai Shri Ram’ could not be dismissed as a mere slogan of north India and Gujarat.
The BJP also succeeded in making Pishi-Bhaipo (Mamata-Abhishek Banerjee) duo a symbol of corruption, tyranny and worse dynastic succession, many said during the polls. But electoral challenges are never-ending. As the year comes to an end, the BJP's poll strategists are back in business, drawing out plans for key contests in Punjab and UP.
BJP has a new alliance partner in Capt Amarimdér Singh in Punjab, and the state is set for a four-cornered contest. In UP, of course, the challenges are huge, and the Modi-Yogi duo is well prepared to offer themselves as 'the double engine Sarkar'.
The BJP also has challenges in Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. Again, different plans are being drawn out in different states. In Manipur, the target is 40 plus in 60 member assembly, and here BJP's trump card will be women, voters.
The party has already taken a giant, and vital political step as the state unit chief is a woman - A Sharda Devi. It is for the first time a major political force has a woman chief in Manipur, and the move is sèen as a game-changer.
The BJP also won crucial civic body polls in Tripura, and this was also the year it changed its chief ministers in Karnataka and Gujarat. For poll managers and key planner Amit Shah, yet again hands are full as the party has to soon start preparing for elections in Himachal and Gujarat in December 2023.
In the early part of 2023, three northeastern states, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya, also go to polls, and so does Karnataka by April-May.
Ex-cricket star Dinesh Mongia, others join BJP ahead of Punjab polls
New Delhi:
Former cricket star Dinesh Mongia joined the BJP on Tuesday at the party office here.
Mongia, 44, took primary membership of the ruling party at the centre to start his political innings.
He was welcomed into the party fold by Union Minister and party in-charge for polls,Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Three Punjab MLAs - Fateh Jung Bajwa, Balwinder Singh Laddi and Rana Gurmeet Sodhi also joined the saffron party giving it a boost weeks ahead of the 2022 polls.
In the 2017 Punjab assembly elections, the BJP was the smaller partner of the Akali Dal and could win only three seats of its own.
The Congress under Capt Amarinder Singh won an absolute majority by picking up 77 seats in the 117-member Punjab assembly. The Shiromani Akali Dal had won 15 seats and thus it lost powerafter 10 years in office.
Now of course, Captain Amarinder Singh has floated his party Punjab Lok Congress and has alsoentered into an alliance with the BJP.
Punjab is heading for a four-cornered contest between Congress, Akali Dal, AAP and the new combine ofBJP and Punjab Lok Congress.
Ex-Sangroor MP Rajdev Khalsa also joined the saffron party among others.
Gurtej Singh Gudhaniya, a former Akali leader and three-time MLA from Baluana also joinedthe Lotus party.
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