To cater to the needs of devotees visiting Tirumala temple, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation has decided to sell 1,000 ‘Sheeghra Darshan’ tickets in its buses every day. Those travelling to Tirumala by APSRTC can buy it along with the bus ticket by paying an extra ₹300.The “Sheeghra Darshan” would be facilitated twice daily at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. RTC supervisors would be present at the Tirumala bus station to guide the devotees opting for ‘Sheeghra Darshan”.The RTC operates 650 buses daily to Tirupati from different bus depots. Mr. Thakur said people from places such as Bengaluru,…
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But ready to work with Beijing when it is in America’s interest to do so, says the U.S. President The United States will take on the challenges being posed by China directly, but will not hesitate to work with Beijing when it is in America’s interest to do so, President Joe Biden said on Thursday.Also read: A strong India would act as ‘counterbalance’ to China, says declassified U.S. document”We will confront China’s economic abuses, counter its aggressive, coercive action to push back on China’s attack on human rights, intellectual property and global governance,” Mr. Biden said in his address to…
Unlike the two currently authorised vaccines, J&J’sdoes not require a second shot or need to be shipped frozen. Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it has asked U.S. health regulators to authorize its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.The drugmaker’s application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) follows its Jan. 29 report in which it said the vaccine had a 66% rate of preventing infections in its large global trial.Also read: EU approves Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccineJ&J’s single-shot vaccine could help boost supply and simplify the U.S. immunization campaign, amid concerns of fresh surges due to the more contagious…
In its report to the EC, it says top party leaders made contributions of over ₹20,000 each in 2019-2020 The Congress received ₹139.01 crore in contributions in 2019-2020, which included ₹31 crore from Prudent Electoral Trust, ₹25 crore from Jankalyan Electoral Trust and ₹13 crore from ITC Limited, according to its contribution report submitted to the Election Commission.Top party leaders, including its president Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as well as ex-Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindia who left the party to join the BJP in March 2020, made contributions of over ₹20,000 each to the party in the…
The effect on deaths is delayed. The daily toll amounts to 50,000 new fatalities in the last two weeks alone. Coronavirus deaths in the United States surpassed 450,000 on Thursday, and daily deaths remain stubbornly high at more than 3,000 a day, despite falling infections and the arrival of multiple vaccines.Infectious disease specialists expect deaths to start dropping soon, after new cases hit a peak right around the beginning of the year. New COVID-19 deaths could ebb as early as next week, said the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.But there’s also the risk that improving…
Mr. Biden will call for renewed alliance-building and U.S. leadership on the world stage following Mr. Trump’s tumultuous four years. President Joe Biden will Thursday announce an end to US military support for the Saudi allies’ devastating war in Yemen in a speech meant to show a reinvigorated focus on diplomacy.Two weeks into his presidency, Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris travelled together to the State Department in a show of support for the role of diplomats.“America is back. Diplomacy is back. You are at the centre of all that I intend to do,” Mr. Biden told a socially…
Donald Trump will go on trial in the Senate for the second time in a year beginning next week. Democratic lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Donald Trump on Thursday requested the former president to testify in his trial for allegedly inciting insurrection in the attack on the US Capitol last month.“I write to invite you to provide testimony under oath, either before or during the Senate impeachment trial, concerning your conduct on January 6, 2021,” chief impeachment manager Jamie Raskin wrote in a letter to Mr. Trump, ahead of the February 9 opening of the trial.Raskin made the request…
Organisations gear up for road blockade on February 6. Farmer unions spearheading the agitation on the three farm laws on Thursday claimed that 21 protesters were still missing since the Republic Day tractor rally violence, and cases had been registered against 125 farmers so far.The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), a coalition of farmer unions, in a press statement said that the information compiled by them had put the number of missing persons at 21, and First Information Reports had been registered against 125 farmers. Legal help desks have been set up on every border actions was constantly being taken in…
The International Criminal Court on Thursday convicted a Ugandan child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander of war crimes and crimes against humanity.Dominic Ongwen, 45, was found guilty of 61 charges over a reign of terror in the early 2000s, including the first conviction by the ICC for the crime of forced pregnancy.The court said Ongwen ordered attacks on refugee camps as a senior commander in the LRA, which under its fugitive chief Joseph Kony waged a bloody campaign in four African nations to set up a state based on the Bible’s Ten Commandments.“His guilt has been established beyond any reasonable doubt,”…
HAL will offer same version that is in service with IAF to friendly foreign countries and at the same price, says CMD Madhavan Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was actively looking for exports of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas with interest from countries in South East Asia and West Asia and each LCA (Light Combat Aircraft)MK1A jet would cost ₹306 crore, said HAL Chairman and Managing Director R Madhavan on Thursday.Giving a break-up of the ₹48,000 crore-deal for 83 LCA for the Indian Air Force (IAF), he said, “As far as the order is concerned, if you remove the tax…