Due to retire on May 31, Alapan Bandyopadhyay had received a three-month extension from the Centre at the state government's request because of the Covid-19 wave in West Bengal and his experience in cyclone relief.

With Narendra Modi’s government completing seven years in office, the nation remains divided as propaganda trumps over performance even as his popularity wanes, writes Sudheendra Kulkarni.

‘Positivity’ is a PR stunt to hide the actual number of Coronavirus deaths the PM’s actions have caused,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said in another tweet.

A TV channel found that in UP, 90% patients are still awaiting medical help. Death has become an accepted calamity, and those who live with this reality have lost all faith in the existing system.

Health economist Rijo M. John also questioned the Central government’s claim that testing has increased 2.6 times during the second wave.

Twitter had, earlier in the day, expressed misgivings on the IT rules, saying that it plans to advocate changes to elements of the rules that inhibit free and open public conversation.

Babu is a close aide of Satish Reddy, the BJP MLA from Bommanahalli. They were with Tejasvi Surya earlier this month, when the MP stormed a COVID war room and communalised the bed allotment scam.

In the selection committee meeting, CJI N.V. Ramana referred to the Supreme Court’s 2019 order to make the choice among various contenders easier. But the committee ignored the fact that the same order also disfavoured appointing acting chiefs, which the Centre had done.

A member of the association had earlier sent a defamation notice to the yoga guru, demanding a written apology in 15 days for his disparaging remarks on allopathy.

Around 4,000 people above the age of 45 years who have taken either one or both doses of any of these two vaccines will be reviewed.