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Covid-19 vaccination for 12-14 age group to begin from THIS date

The next phase of Covid-19 vaccination started from March 1 for people above 60 years and those aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions.

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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday said that the Covid-19 vaccination for the 12-14 year age group will begin from March 16. Besides, people above 60 years will be able to take booster shots.

Announcing the news, the health minister said tweeted that if children are safe, the country is safe. He continued that it makes him really happy to announce that from March 16, children in the 12-14 age group can ger vaccinated against covid. He also informed that all adults above 60 years of age will be able to get booster doses.

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The next phase of Covid-19 vaccination started from March 1 for people above 60 years and those aged 45 and above with specified co-morbid conditions.

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The Centre started the world’s largest vaccination programme in January last year. In the first phase of Covid-19 vaccination, health and frontline workers were vaccinated. The programme was then expanded to adults above 60 in March 2021. Two months later, all adults were eligible for Covid-19 vaccination. For 15-16 age group, vaccination began in January 2022. In addition, India also began booster doses amid the concerns over Omicron variant of Covid-19.

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India, on Sunday, recorded a dip in daily Covid-19 cases with 2,503 new infections. This is the lowest since May 2020 and the active cases dipped to 36,168, as per the Union Health Ministry shared on Monday.

On Friday, a new analysis published in The Lancet journal said that the exact Covid-19 death toll in the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic may be at least three times the reported numbers in the world and more than eight times in India.

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Thieves dig 10-feet tunnel and rob jewellery worth Rs 15 lakh in UP’s Meerut

Meerut Police have started a probe into the matter and action will be taken thereafter.

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A bizarre incident is coming to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut where thieves robbed jewellery worth Rs 15 lakhs from a shop by digging a 10 ft foot tunnel through a drain. The incident happened in the jewellery shop located under the Nauchandi Police Station area.

The owner of the jewellery shop found something fishy when he arrived at the shop to open it for business the next morning. The owner noticed a tunnel running through a drain and into the shop. He immediately informed the police about the theft.

The Meerut Police reached the spot and stated that the thieves dismantled bricks and mud from the drain’s weak boundary to enter the shop. The thieves ran away with jewellery worth lakhs of rupees.

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Soon after the news of theft spread into the state, the Meerut Bullion Traders Association members reached the showroom to protest the law and order situation in the city.

After the ruckus, two police officers arrived at the showroom. The traders refused to let the police officers inside, saying they needed a senior official’s presence to look into this robbery and several others that have supposedly occurred recently. The thieves are absconding.

Meerut Police have started a probe into the matter and action will be taken thereafter.

Last month too, a similar incident took place where a group of thieves dug a 15-foot-long tunnel from a drain and attempted to rob a jewellery store, but they could not fully open the vault. Later, they scrawled a message of apologies to the store owner before they fled.

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Amritpal Singh likely to surrender in Golden Temple before Akal Takht, says report

Security has been beefed up around Golden Temple in Amritsar.

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Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh who is on the run for the last 10 days is likely to surrender himself before the Punjab Police, said reports. The radical Sikh preacher who had been evading arrest for around two weeks has reportedly returned to Punjab.

The Punjab Police are on his tail but are yet to nab him. There are reports that the Waris Punjab De chief has put forth three demands before Punjab Police over the arrest.

Amritpal Singh is evading arrest since March 18 even after the state police launched a crackdown against him after his convoy was spotted in Jalandhar. Since then, he fled to several states, including Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, evading multiple checkpoints, and changing vehicles and hideouts several times.

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As per the reports, Singh was also suspected to be in Nepal. India also encouraged Nepal’s authorities to be vigilant and prevent the radical preacher from fleeing, which led to his name being on a surveillance list.

Now, there are reports that the pro-Khalistan leader may surrender himself in the Golden Temple before Akal Takht. Policemen in plain clothes have also been deployed around Golden Temple.

Punjab Police have initiated a large search operation radical preacher in a Hoshiarpur village and nearby regions where Amritpal Singh and his associates may be reportedly hiding. The Marnaian village, where a thorough search was conducted late on Tuesday night after several suspects abandoned their car after a chase, saw a significant police presence in and around it.

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Fire breaks out at hotel in Indore’s Madhya Pradesh, narrow escape for 40 guests

People who were trapped on the sixth floor tied the bedsheets and threw them down like ropes in an effort to climb down.

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Fire breaks out at hotel in Indore

A massive fire broke out at a hotel in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on Wednesday morning. The fire was so intense that the six-story hotel was totally covered in flames. 45 people were there in the hotel at the time of the incident and were rescued safely.

The incident happened at a Papaya Tree Hotel in Indore in the early hours of Wednesday. Three fire tenders and more than 30 water tankers rushed to the spot as soon as they received the information about the fire. By the time, the officials reached the scene to control the flames, it had spread to two floors.

Fire SP RS Nigwal said the fire had first started in the ceiling of the ground floor in the restaurant area, however, due to the sudden disconnection of the electricity, the alarm was not sounded and the fire hydrant system stopped working. The guests were unaware of the fire in the hotel and realized it only after huge black smoke started rising up. They immediately came out to the balconies for help.

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The guests were asked to tie knots of the bedsheets inside their bedrooms and hung through them to reach the ladders which had been installed to rescue them.

All the guests were safely rescued, however, a few people were rushed to the hospital with injuries and smoke inhalation.

People who were trapped on the sixth floor tied the bedsheets and threw them down like ropes in an effort to climb down.

Senior police officials from Mhow, Rajendra Nagar, Rau, Kishanganj and Tejaji Nagar police stations reached the spot to control the situation. The police are conducting further investigation into the matter, as per reports.

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