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Breaking News Updates August 16, 2021: The newly inducted ministers of the union cabinet will seek blessings from people during ‘Jan Ashirvad Yatra’ starting from Monday. The BJP has planned this yatra to tell people how opposition parties especially the Congress have not allowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to introduce these ministers, who came from an ordinary background, in both houses of the parliament on the first day of the monsoon session. During last month’s reshuffle of the union cabinet, for the first time a maximum of 11 women, 27 OBCs, 20 Scheduled Caste, and Scheduled Tribe leaders were made ministers.
Meanwhile, India on Sunday celebrated its 75th Independence Day across the country, during which, PM Narendra Modi cited various schemes of the government, including direct benefit transfer, to assert that his government has prioritised the interest of small farmers, and gave a new slogan, ‘chhota kisan bane desh ki shaan (small farmers should become India’s pride)’.In his eighth consecutive address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 75th Independence Day, Modi called for making the next 25 years glorious for India with “new thresholds, aspirations and dreams” in the run-up to the centenary of its independence from the British colonial rule.
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Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to visit Assam tomorrow to review the COVID-19 situation in North-Eastern states and also to review construction works at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Changsari.
Pfizer & BioNTech announce the submission of initial data to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
Govt restricts export of COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Testing Kits with immediate effect.
Delhi reports 27 fresh COVID cases and 73 discharges in the last 24 hours.
Active cases: 467
Total discharges: 14,11,582
Death toll: 25,069 (no new deaths)
West Bengal government allows opening of museums including ASI protected monuments & entertainment parks with not more than 50% of capacity at a time & compliance of COVID appropriate behaviour & protocols from August 17.
Farmers protesting against Centre’s 3 agri laws will organise national convention on August 26 to mark completion of 9 months of their agitation, according to statement from Samyukt Kisan Morcha
COVID-19 Vaccination | More than 77 lakh vaccine doses administered today so far. A total of 55,05,20,038 vaccine doses administered have been administrated till now: Union Health Ministry
We'll still have to pay interest of Rs 37,000 crores by 2026. Despite interest payments, principal outstanding of over 1.30 lakh crores is still pending. If I didn't have the burden of oil bonds, I would have been in a position to reduce excise duty on fuel: Finance Minister(2/2)
— ANI (@ANI) August 16, 2021
Kerala reports 12,294 new COVID19 cases, 18,542 recoveries and 142 deaths in the last 24 hours. 87,578 samples tested for COVID in the last 24 hours. Test positivity rate is 14.03%.
Active cases: 1,72,239
Death toll: 18,743
Total recoveries: 35,10,909
The glitches in the new income tax portal are expected to be fixed entirely in the next 2-3 days: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
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