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India had previously cleared commercial exports of COVID-19 vaccines, and the first consignments were shipped to Brazil and Morocco on Friday.

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the proposal has been made keeping in mind sensitivity of the matter and because the government is keen to resolve the crisis in the interest of the farming community.

Hazare has written to the Centre and said he will sit on a fast in Delhi from January 30 over a host of agricultural demands.

The first two Tests of the upcoming IndiaEngland series will be played at the M A Chidambaram Stadium behind closed doors, a top official from host association TNCA said on Friday.

As a video of his speech went viral, the BJP in the state staged protests at Karimnagar and other places on Friday against the ruling party and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

These included the Viva Group's offices in Andheri and Virar (Palghar), besides residences of its top officials in Andheri, Juhu and Chembur (Mumbai), leading to the seizure of the cash and other incriminating documents.

The company said it had recorded highest ever quarterly consolidated profit before exceptional items at Rs 15,015 crore and EBITDA at Rs 26,094 crore.

Barely hours after West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee announced his decision to quit the Mamata cabinet in an emotional press meet, the Trinamool Congress expelled party MLA Vaishali Dalmia for going against the party line.

The trial of the bio-coal production plant from the state's first agricultural residue in Bahraich has been completed and will start soon.

MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said at a media briefing that India has so far sent consignments of coronavirus vaccines under grant assistance to Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Seychelles.

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Banerjee claimed that he wanted to quit the cabinet in 2018 when he was removed from the state irrigation department without any consultation.

The inactivated vaccine, which has used particles of dead coronavirus, led to common side effects such as pain at injection site, headache, fatigue and fever and nausea, and one adverse event which the data showed was not associated with the trial group w...

Dismissing the plea on January 19, Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya said that the petitioner does not have any "fundamental right" to permission for collecting the preserved sperm of his son merely by dint of his father-son relationship with the deceased.

In 2018, reports had surfaced which said firm had harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of over 50 million worldwide without their consent.

The woman told the investigating officer that she is taking back the complaint against Munde, but did not cite any reason, a police official said.