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Telangana government on Monday launched the Covid-19 vaccination program for the general public. During this phase, all people above the age of 60 years and those between 45-59 years of age and are suffering from comorbidities, will be given the vaccine, according to Director Public Health G. Srinivas Rao. On the first day, vaccination is open at 91 centers with a maximum capacity of 200 beneficiaries each and those have already registered through Cowin app will be allowed. Around 18,000 people will be eligible to get vaccinated on day 1. “There will be 46 private and 45 government hospitals involved in the launch program on Monday. To avoid overcrowding and to conduct this in an orderly manner we will be allowing only prior registrations via the CoWin app. Walk-in registrations will be carried out only from next week,” said Dr GS Rao, Director of Public Health of Telangana. While 91 centers are only for the soft launch of this week’s rollout, from next week, all 1,200 ... » Learn More about Telangana launches COVID-19 vaccination program for senior citizens

The existing restrictions due to coronavirus in Pune district of Maharashtra were extended till March 14 on Sunday, an official said. IMAGE: Students and workers leave for their respective cities after the Pune administration announced partial restrictions citing an increase in COVID-19 cases, in Pune. Photograph: PTI Photo These include restrictions on movement between 11 pm and 6 am for non-essential activities, as well as closure of educational institutions, he said. The order was issued by District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh and Pune Municipal Commissioner Vikram Kumar, he said. The COVID-19 restrictions, from which essential services are exempt, had been imposed on February 21 due to the recent spike in infection cases. The district reported 1,505 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, which took its total case count to 4,06,453. The death toll in the district till Saturday night stood at 9,235, officials said. Meanwhile, in the wake of a rise in daily ... » Learn More about Covid curbs in Pune extended, curfew to be imposed in Hingoli

'I am new to investment.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/ Rediff.com Ajit Mishra , vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries: Venkatesh Ramanath : Please advice: Holding 100 shares of I.O.L @877. Ajit Mishra : Exit the stock Amit Agarwal : Want suggestions for following whether or hold, sell or average out. Ajit Mishra : Tata motors [email protected] 135 Hold Karnataka Bank [email protected] 87 Exit Meghmani organic [email protected] 84 Exit Tamil Nadu petroproducts [email protected] 73 Exit Adf food [email protected] Exit Archidply industries [email protected] Exit MEP infrastructure [email protected] Exit Den network [email protected] 136 Exit Engineers India [email protected] 102 Exit Arindam Datta : I am new to investment. Just a learner. Hence you will find lot of mistakes in my stock picks and timing. Please suggest my actions, keeping in mind a probable market crash. Please suggest your advice. Ajit Mishra : Alkyle Amines @ 3081 Hold Bajaj Finance @ 3469 Hold ... » Learn More about Ask Ajit: Stocks to buy, sell, or hold

Mumbai : Adopting a unique approach to highlight the spiralling fuel prices, all Congress Ministers and legislators on Monday took to the roads on bicycles and furiously pedalled to the Maharashtra Legislature on the opening day of the Budget Session, here. Leading the bicycle rally, state Congress President Nana Patole and city party chief Bhai Jagtap attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre of "looting" the hard-earned money of the people by hiking taxes on fuel which have resulted in zooming prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas. "The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made life difficult for the people. Though the prices of crude oil in the international markets is at a record low, the Centre is fleecing the masses by the taxes on fuel," Patole said. He said that excluding taxes, petrol costs around Rs 32.72 per litre and diesel Rs 33.46 per litre, but the Centre has imposed excise duties of 820 and 258 per cent respectively which ... » Learn More about Maha Cong ministers protest high fuel prices on bicycles

Mumbai: Maharashtra reported 6,397 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload in the state to 21,61,467. The state saw 30 fatalities in the last 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll to 52,184, according to the state government. The total recoveries in the state reached 20,30,458, as it registered 5,754 additional recoveries in the last 24 hours. Read more: Coronavirus Latest Updates "Currently, 3,43,947 people are in home quarantine and 3,482 people are in institutional quarantine," informed the state government. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Maharashtra continues to show a surge in daily COVID-19 cases, along with five other states. Supriya Sule receives the first dose of her COVID-19 vaccine 00:43 Furthermore, Maharashtra alone accounts for 46.39 per cent of India 's total active cases, followed by Kerala with 29.49 per cent. Meanwhile, as many as 15,510 new COVID-19 ... » Learn More about COVID-19 tracker: Maharashtra registers 6,397 new COVID-19 cases, 30 deaths

New Delhi: The rooftop solar market is expected to pick up pace in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021 and is estimated to add 475 megawatt (MW) capacity in this period, according to a recent report by renewable energy consultancy firm Bridge to India. “We expect 2,040 MW and 2,340 MW of solar capacity to be added in the next two quarters, as construction progress gathers pace. Rooftop solar market is also expected to pick up pace in Q1 2021 with expected capacity addition of 475 MW,” said the report titled ‘India Solar Compass Q4 2020’. It added that Coronavirus-induced hardships persisted in Q4 2020 and had pulled down the installation numbers. “Capacity addition in 2020 was at a five-year low… 1,298 MW of new capacity was added in the quarter, marginally below our estimate. Total installed capacity and project pipeline touched 41,689 MW and 46,175 MW, respectively by 31 December 2020,” the report said. According to the report, project commissioning of solar projects ... » Learn More about Rooftop solar expected to add 475-MW capacity in Q1 2021: Report

Mumbai : Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Limited (RSBVL) announced that it has acquired an additional equity stake in its investee company skyTran for a consideration of USD 26.76 million increasing its shareholding to 54.46 per cent on a fully diluted basis. skyTran is a technology company incorporated under the laws of Delaware, United States of America (USA) in 2011. skyTran has developed breakthrough passive magnetic levitation and propulsion technology for implementing personal transportation systems aimed at solving the problem of traffic congestion globally. RSBVL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited , in a statement said that the technology has been developed by skyTran to create smart mobility solutions. The firm said that the proposed skyTran transportation systems would consist of computer-controlled passenger pods running on its state-of-the-art, patented passive magnetic levitation technology and would use cutting edge IT, telecom, ... » Learn More about Reliance Industries acquires majority equity stake in skyTran Inc

Chennai: Tamil Nadu has extended the existing state-wide lockdown till March 31. The Tamil Nadu government has put in place centre’s guidelines for containing the spread of COVID-19 cases. The order directed the district administration to make sure of strict enforcement of measures to prevent and manage COVID-19 and can as far as possible use provision of section 144. Adding to this, the district administration will be taking appropriate COVID-19 measures, including social distancing and ensuring everyone wears a mask. Moreover, spitting in public places will be penalised. Meanwhile, other states like Maharashtra and Gujarat are also witnessing massive surge in coronavirus cases and the respective state governments have extended the  lockdown in some districts. In Amravati and Achalpur cities, lockdown was extended for a week in view of the coronavirus situation, while restrictions were also imposed for the weekend in Nagpur, Buldhana and Yavatmal. Adjoining ... » Learn More about After Maharashtra and Gujarat, lockdown extended in THIS state amid surge in COVID-19 cases

When mainstream politics becomes recklessly instrumental, nothing is spared; even great idols and cultural symbols are trivialised through a process of appropriation in order to manipulate people’s emotions. In the campaign to the Assembly elections in West Bengal, we have been witnessing the competitive game of demonstrating one’s affinity with the icons of Bengal, such as Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore. The Bharatiya Janata Party is at pains to demonstrate that it is not a north Indian party; and even if it loves to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, it understands what the average Bengali bhadralok regards as his ‘cultural capital’. No wonder the leaders of the party, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, often express their close ‘attachment’ to Vivekananda, Tagore and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Bhadralok consciousness This symbolic politics of cultural appropriation cannot be adequately understood without looking at the consciousness of the Bengali ... » Learn More about The rush to appropriate icons

Video Player Close -- China's three northeastern provinces, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin, all achieved positive economic growth in 2020, a sign of the country's economic resilience against the backdrop of the world's worst pandemic in decades. -- Five years ago, the region began to show a sharp decline in its economic performance indicators, as the northeastern "rust belt" has long been afflicted by an aging population, dwindling investment and talent outflow. -- Global industry leaders like LyondellBasell and SK Hynix, covering a range of fields, including chemical production, new-energy vehicles and semiconductors, have piled into the region since 2020. BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China's three northeastern provinces all achieved positive economic growth in 2020, a sign of the country's economic resilience against the backdrop of the world's worst pandemic in decades. Last year, the GDP of Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin, once China's major industrial ... » Learn More about China’s northeast shows positive growth, strong resilience