The World Health Organization (WHO) exhorted the world to keep administering AstraZeneca's Covid-19 shots on Friday, adding its endorsement to that of European and British regulators after concerns over blood clotting.

We urge countries to continue using this important Covid-19 vaccine, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference in Geneva.

With less than two weeks to go for the Assembly Elections 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's marathon rallies continue. PM Modi will address election rallies in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam today.

The Prime Minister will address election rallies in Kharagpur in West Bengal and Chabua in Assam. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said that he will elaborate on BJP's development agenda in his speeches.

New Delhi: The central government has given another big blow to the general public already facing high inflation. On Friday, the fares of domestic flights in the country were increased by 5 percent.

The information was shared by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri through his Twitter handle.

All educational institutions in Punjab have been ordered to remain closed till March 31 in wake of the rising COVID-19 cases, the state government has announced.

Exams have also been postponed till March 31.

Punjab School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Friday said that as Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh announced the closure of educational institutions in the state till March 31, the school education department has also decided to postpone exams of all classes till March 31, 2021.

Reacting to Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Qamar Bajwa's bury the past remark, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday said that Pakistan should back his rhetoric on peace with India with solid action.

Singh said that Bajwa should first control his ISI, and then talk about stability in Indo-Pak relations, adding that Islamabad-sponsored terrorism is the biggest hurdle to normalizing relations between the two nations.

The Sabarimala temple opened on Thursday morning for the Uthram festival at the hill shrine in Kerala, which will remain open till March 28.

Covid-19 negative certificate is mandatory for devotees who want to visit the temple.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday alleged that women were feeling unsafe under the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh.

He said the Hathras incident has moved the entire world but no worthwhile step has been taken by the state government for the safety and security of women.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for pursuing “appeasement and vote bank politics”, going on to say that on May 2, Banerjee’s khela (game) will be shesh (over) and development will start.

Addressing an election rally in the tribal Jangalmahal region of the state, he alleged the ruling TMC never considered Dalits, backwards and adivasis its own, and these sections were the worst victims of cut money culture and Tolabaji (extortion) by the state's ruling party.

India saw 39,726 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, the highest single day rise recorded so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19tally to 1,15,14,331,according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

Registering an increase for the ninth day in a row, the total active caseload has reached 2,71,282, which now comprises 2.36per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to 96.26 per cent, the data stated.

HDFC Bank's MSME book grew 30 per cent year-on-year to cross the Rs 2-lakh-crore-mark as of December-end, mainly boosted by the pandemic-induced ECLG scheme under which it disbursed over Rs 23,000 crore.

The growth is also driven by a renewed push towards customers in semi-urban and rural areas, the bank has said.

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