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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will receive Covid-19 vaccines free from India next week, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Saturday, a day after the country approved emergency use of Oxford AstraZeneca's Covishield vaccine. "We do not have to wait longer than the 27th of this month to receive a quantity of free vaccines from India," the president said, addressing the presidential mobile service at Walallawita south of here this morning.Front-line health workers, the Army and the police and the most vulnerable elderly will be given the vaccine as a priority, the president said, amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to prevent the medical system from collapsing."We will also buy Covid-19 vaccines from Russia and China," the president said.The president's comments came as the health authorities conducted three dry runs of the vaccination process.India this week announced that it will send Covid-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Sri Lanka and … [Read more...] about Sri Lanka to receive Covid-19 vaccines from India next week: President

#WATCH | I think Govt's program should have dignity. This is not a political program....It doesn't suit you to insult someone after inviting them. As a protest, I won't speak anything: WB CM Mamata Banerjee after 'Jai Shree Ram' slogans were raised when she was invited to speak pic.twitter.com/pBvVrlrrbb … [Read more...] about Mamata Banerjee refuses to address Netaji event in Kolkata after crowd shouts ‘Jai Sri Ram’ slogans in presence of PM Narendra Modi — Watch

Abolishing capital punishmentThe delay in carrying out the death penalty is one of the reasons to review India’s position on capital punishment. The debate on the efficacy of the death penalty in reducing crime has been going on for several decades. A few years ago, the issue of abolishing capital punishment was raised in the Rajya Sabha but was rejected by a voice vote. The then Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, stated that the government was not contemplating abolition of the death penalty. Through its report in 2015, the Law Commission of India proposed abolishing the death penalty and sought the comments of States and Union Territories on the subject. Despite reminders, just 14 States responded by 2018. Of these, 12 States rejected the proposal, while Karnataka and Tripura concurred. … [Read more...] about A case to dispose of mercy petitions swiftly

“Today, consignments of 15 lakh doses for Myanmar, 1 lakh doses to Mauritius and 50,000 doses to Seychelles are being airlifted,” said Official Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava who reiterated that there is “interest in many countries in accessing vaccines from India.”. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus | Myanmar, Mauritius, Seychelles receive Covishield vaccine

In keeping with India''s stated commitment to use its vaccine production and delivery capacity to help all of humanity fight the COVID-19 pandemic, supplies under grant assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Seychelles began from January 20. … [Read more...] about India, a true friend, using its pharma to help global community flight coronavirus: US