News Highlights: Centre bans export of Remdesivir till Covid-19 situation improves

India administered over 27 lakh vaccine doses till 8 pm on Sunday as the nation initiated 'Tika Utsav'.

Mumbai reported 9,989 new positive cases and 58 deaths today

The Centre has prohibited export of injection Remdesivir and Remdesivir Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients till the Covid-19 situation in the country improves

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched a scathing attack against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that her advice to gherao central forces had instigated people to attack CISF in Cooch Behar's Sitalkuchi that led to four deaths in firing by security personnel.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested API Riyaz Qazi, an associate of Sachin Vaze: NIA officials

Vaze is an accused in Mansukh Hiren death case and Antilia bomb scare

'I will come to meet you on April 14' Mamata tells people of Cooch Behar

Terrorists eliminated in the operation at Bijbehara were responsible for the killing of Territorial Army (TA) jawan yesterday: Dilbagh Singh, DG, J&K Police

An operation at Bijbehara has concluded. 12 terrorists neutralised, so far, in 4 separate operations over last 72 hrs comprising 7 terrorists at Tral & Shopian, 3 terrorists of Al Badr at Haripora & now 2 more at Bijbehara who were working with LeT: Dilbagh Singh, DG, J&K Police

It was a genocide, says Mamata after Cooch Behar violence; dubs MCC Modi Code of Conduct

Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Cooch Behar violence during Phase 4 of the West Bengal elections, Mamata Banerjee said that the Election Commission should rename the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) Modi Code of Conduct.

"It is a genocide. They sprayed bullets. They could have shot on the leg or the lower body but every bullet hit them in the neck or chest area," Mamata said addressing the press in Singur on Sunday,

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PM's 4 steps on Tika Utsav

Aam Aadmi Party's Raghav Chadha writes to PM Narendra Modi regarding "urgent need for vaccine universalisation and vaccine nationalism"

"Several states have run out of stocks of vaccines & remaining states have stocks left only for 3 to 5 days," the letter reads

A helicopter carrying Indian Lulu Group head MA Yusuff Ali and his wife crash-landed near Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) campus in Panangad.

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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says 10,732 fresh cases of Covid-19 reported in last 24 hours in Delhi

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned two personal assistants of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh to record their statement

2 unidentified terrorists killed in the Shopian encounter, police say

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