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A 90-year-old woman from Ireland named Margaret Keenan on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as part of the mass vaccination programme being rolled out across the UK. ....

Moderate to heavy snow and rain lashed Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday as the weather office forecast improvement from Thursday onwards. ....

Envoys of more than 60 countries on Wednesday visited a facility of Bharat Biotech which is developing Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine for coronavirus. ....

BJP President JP Nadda has reacted sharply to the attack allegedly carried out by Trinamool Congress supporters when he was travelling from Kolkata to Diamond Harbour in Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Thursday. ....

India's Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat on Friday said the like-minded partners need to build "dissuasive deterrence" against China's attempts at establishing its hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the NDA is committed to serving the people of the northeast region of India. Greeting the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and other allies on the success of the elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in Assam, Modi in a tweet said: "NDA is committed to serving the people of the Northeast." ....

Dubbing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as a "coward" who had run scared and apologised when cornered in a defamation case by SAD's Bikram Majithia, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said Kejriwal's desperate attempts to hide his government's "utter failure" to protect the farmers' interests will not save him from their wrath, nor will they safeguard his party from being decimated in the next Punjab Assembly election. ....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that the farm laws are not only "anti-farmer" but also "anti-people" and have been brought in "to benefit some capitalists". ....

An Army colonel accused of raping his friend's Russian wife after sedating her husband at the Officers' Mess in Cantonment area, has been arrested ....

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi MLA Naresh Yadav, who was named one of the accused in a Quran Sharif sacrilege case in Punjab's Malerkotla, was acquitted by the Sangrur district court on Tuesday. ....