Increase manufacturing capacity, fast track approval for other vaccines: Rahul Gandhi Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi if the decision to export COVID-19 vaccine was an ‘oversight’ or an effort to garner publicity at the cost of Indian citizens.In a letter dated April 8 but released by the Congress on Friday, Mr. Gandhi asked for an immediate moratorium on exports as he claimed “the country is facing vaccine starvation” and asked the government to open up vaccination to everyone who needs it. He said the government should double the ₹35,000 crore allocation for the vaccination programme.Taking…
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The 11th round of Corps Commander talks are under way between India and China to work out an agreement for the second phase of disengagement in Eastern Ladakh. Talks were still on at the time of going to print.Also read: India, China Foreign Ministers to establish hotlineThe talks began around 10:30 a.m. at Chushul in Eastern Ladakh, a defence source said.The focus of the talks is for disengagement from Patrolling Points (PP) at Gogra and Hot Springs.In February, the two sides completed the first phase of disengagement on the north and the south banks of Pangong Tso based on a…
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The vote has garnered national attention, with professional athletes, Hollywood stars and even President Joe Biden weighing in on the side of the union. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.)Amazon is heading into the final stretch of a union push in Bessemer, Alabama with a sizeable lead over labour organisers.With nearly half the ballots counted April 8 night, 1,100 warehouse workers had rejected the union while 463 voted in favour of it.The count will resume April 9 morning in Birmingham, Alabama, where agents for the…
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s company focused on developing brain-machine interfaces, has posted a video to YouTube that appears to show a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor using only its mind. Pager, a 9-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink implanted about six weeks before the video was shot, the video’s unnamed narrator says. He was first taught to play video games with a joystick for a banana smoothie reward, delivered through a metal straw. While he was doing this, the Neuralink device recorded information about which neurons were firing — learning, essentially, to predict hand movements by recording which regions fired. After…
One person was killed and five people were wounded in the wake of a shooting at a cabinet-making business in Bryan, Texas, authorities said, and a state trooper was later shot during a manhunt that resulted in the suspected shooter being taken into custody.Bryan Police Chief Eric Buske told reporters on Thursday he believes the shooting suspect is an employee at the Kent Moore Cabinets location. The shooting happened in the bays in a plant where employees make cabinets.Mr. Buske said a motive in the shooting was not clear.The shooter was gone by the time officers arrived, Buske said.Grimes County…
The affair also branched into a diplomatic spat between Turkey and Italy, whose Prime Minister compared the Turkish president to a dictator and spoke of Ms. von der Leyen’s “humiliation.” Turkey on Thursday strongly rejected accusations that it snubbed Ursula von der Leyen — one of the European Union’s most powerful executives — because of her gender after a protocol gaffe during a meeting at the Turkish presidential palace ignited a public uproar.The affair also branched into a diplomatic spat between Turkey and Italy, whose Prime Minister compared the Turkish president to a dictator and spoke of Ms. von der…
The orders tighten regulations on homemade guns and provide more resources for gun-violence prevention but fall far short of the sweeping gun-control agenda laid out on the campaign trail. U.S. President Joe Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions onThursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment.” “The idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation,” Mr. Biden said during remarks at…
The Ecole Nationale d’Administration, known as ENA, is today a small Strasbourg-based finishing school for top civil servants that has become a symbol of elitism in France. French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday plans to scrap France’s elite ENA graduate school, which four modern presidents have attended including him, and replace it with a new institute.The Ecole Nationale d’Administration, known as ENA, is today a small Strasbourg-based finishing school for top civil servants that has become a symbol of elitism in France.Created in the aftermath of World War II, admission guarantees an influential job in the upper reaches of the…
The demand comes amid sharp spike in COVID-19 cases in the State. Joining Maharashtra Chief Minister Udhav Thackeray and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has urged the Union government to open COVID-19 vaccination for all adults instead of the present 45 plus category allowed by the Centre. Chhattisgarh has seen a sharp spike in cases, forcing the State to impose a partial lockdown in Raipur and neighbouring Rajnandgaon. In a tweet in Hindi, tagging Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Baghel said it was necessary to prepare our youth with the second wave of pandemic. He…