Bahujan Samaj Party MP from Ghosi Atul Rai surrenders before the court and is sent to jail after his guarantor withdraws support in a 2011 Gangsters Act case. Rai has a history of over 21 criminal cases.
For voters in Sewapuri and Pindra rural constituencies in Varanasi district, the biggest problem they have this election is not roads or water, inflation or unemployment. It is the sitting BJP legislators the party has decided to field once again in the assembly elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
VARANASI: PM Narendra Modi on Friday joined the campaign to tackle vaccine hesitancy by holding a virtual interaction with health workers who all attested to the safety of the jab administered to them. The interaction with health workers in his LS constituency was live telecast by Doordarshan.
Doctors’ clean chit to vaccine sends a strong message to people: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he did not rush experts into rolling out the vaccines despite facing attacks for not launching them earlier. Modi got health workers to share their tryst with the vaccine, especially if they had faced any serious discomfort after getting the dose.
VARANASI: Amid the world’s biggest rollout of vaccination against Covid in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought to dispel fears on safety and efficacy of the vaccines during a virtual interaction with vaccine recipients, doctors and vaccinators in his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi.
“India has launched the world’s biggest vaccination drive and the credit goes to the medical fraternity and scientists, who developed two vaccines in a short span of time. The ‘made in India’ vaccine is also being provided to other countries,” said the PM.
Giving full credit to the scientists of the country for the vaccine s success, the PM said that there was no political decision involved here.
VARANASI: District health officials swung into action on Tuesday after visuals went viral on social media showing ‘vaccine’ reaching an inoculation centre on bicycle during the statewide dry run.
Chief medical officer Dr V B Singh has sought an explanation from the cold chain operator for the ‘lapse’ as the centre in question Government Women Hospital, Chaukaghat was not scheduled for the supply of vaccines as it already had adequate doses in storage.
Just before the start of the dry run at GWH, a man reached there with four cold-chain boxes on a bicycle, but the security personnel stopped him from entering the hospital. When he revealed that he had brought dummy vaccine boxes from Chaukaghat CHC, the designated storage centre for Covid vaccine with three ice lined refrigerators (ILR), the health officials swung into action.