26-12-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India will start administering COVID-19 booster shots as a precautionary measure to healthcare and other front-line workers from January 10, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant rise across the country. In a TV address to the nation on …

26-12-2021 PAROS/ ATHENS: Greek coast guards scoured for survivors in the Aegean Sea on Saturday after the latest in a series of migrant boat accidents that have killed at least 30 people in just days. Late Friday, the coastguard found 16 bodies, including those of three women and a baby, …

26-12-2021 PARIS: COVID infections in France hit six figures Saturday, health officials recording 104,611 cases over the previous 24 hours, the third consecutive day the numbers have been record highs. The latest figures, from France´s public health agency, come ahead of a video-conference meeting Monday in which President Emmanuel Macron …

New Delhi ‘Dec 25’2021The Nation pays homage to former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 97th birth anniversary today. Dignitaries will pay floral tributes to the former Prime Minister at his memorial Sadaiv Atal in Delhi. The day is also celebrated as Good Governance Day. Vajpayee …

Hyderabad, Dec.25 (PMI): State Government today issued guidelines banning the rallies and public meetings to follow corona protocols to check spread of Omicron variant as cases keep rising. The people are asked to follow corona protocols temporarily till January 2. The government issued orders to follow these protocols as the …

Hyderabad, Dec.25 (PMI): BJP MLA T. Raja Singh today warned state industries minister KTR on holding the upcoming show of stand -up comedian Munawar Faruqi. He said that they would chase away the comedian from the state Capital if he entered to hold his show. He claimed that 16 states …

Hyderabad, Dec.25 (PMI): State BJP president Bandi Sanjay kumar today said that former prime minister of the country Atal Bihari Vajpayee had bought in a couple of reforms in the country. He made these remarks while addressing a good governance conference held at the state party headquarters to mark the …

Hyderabad, Dec.25 (PMI): Union minister for forums and culture G. Kishan reddy Today said that the former prime minister of the country Atal Bihari Vajpayee earned good name as a great leader for himself around the world . He also termed Vajpayee as a great administrator. He made these remarks …

Hyderabad, Dec.25 (PMI): Finance minister T Harish Rao today appealed to people to wear masks, take vaccines and maintain physical distance. With less severity Omicron variant spreads speedily and we have to sanitise hands and wear masks. We asked the Centre for booster dose and vaccination for 18 years old, …

25-12-2021 WASHINGTON/ NAIROBI: The $10bn James Webb telescope has left Earth on its mission to show the first stars to light up the Universe. The observatory was lifted skyward by an Ariane rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. Its flight to orbit lasted just under half an hour, …