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Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII), exuded confidence in meeting the Centre’s goal of immunising all adults by yearend, while announcing that Covid-19 vaccine for children, Covavax, is readying for a February-March launch. The Pune-based company hopes to resume exports of its vaccine, Covishield to WHObacked global platform, Covax by November. http://dlvr.it/SB3wSB

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Exploring ways to draft a new umbrella green law subsuming all existing environmental legislations, the government has revisited recommendations of the sevenyear old high-level committee that had suggested clubbing Air Act and Water Act with the Environment Protection Act of 1986 while treating laws on forests and wildlife separately. http://dlvr.it/S9wG2s

The ‘Moscow Format’ talks on Wednesday, which will see the participation of the Taliban and 10 countries including India, will underline the need for an inclusive government in Afghanistan and seek consolidated international efforts to fend off a humanitarian crisis in the country. http://dlvr.it/S9wG2Z

The special investigation team (SIT) probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence released six photographs of suspects who had allegedly “lynched” three BJP workers after the convoy of junior home minister Ajay Mishra’s son’s allegedly mowed down farmers at a protest site there on October 3. It has also announced cash rewards — without mentioning the amount — for information about the suspects. http://dlvr.it/S9wG2F

India, Israel, the UAE and the US sat down for their first “quadrilateral” meeting on Monday night, opening the way to a new geopolitical equation with closer cooperation on trade, technology, Big Data and maritime security in a region that has been volatile and riven with deep fault lines. http://dlvr.it/S9wG1x

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe four cases relating to recent civilian killings by terrorists in J&K, the victims being Srinagar pharmacist M L Bindroo, Sikh school principal Supinder Kaur and teacher Deepak Chand, Bihari vendor Virendra Paswan, and two Bihari labourers — Raja Reshi Dev and Joginder Reshi Dev — killed in Kulgam. http://dlvr.it/S9wG0J

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ndia and Israel agreed in principle to recognise each other’s vaccine certifications and restart talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) from November. These were the key outcomes after foreign minister S Jaishankar held talks with his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on Monday. Israel also signed up as the latest member of the International Solar Alliance. http://dlvr.it/S9rP8q

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The pristine beauty of the mountains, rivers and lush-green valleys in Arunachal Pradesh somewhat masks frenetic military activity under way to deter, and if required thwart, any challenge from the dragon in the eastern sector. http://dlvr.it/S9rP7l

A western disturbance and formation of two lower pressure systems — one over Arabian Sea and the other over the Bay of Bengal — will continue to cause rainfall in different parts of the country till October 21, the India Meteorological Department said in its latest weather updates on Sunday. http://dlvr.it/S9mgfh

This was the lowest weekly case count in nearly eight months since February 22-28 this year. The dip came on the back of a big decline in cases in major Covid-hit states. Kerala logged 59,521 cases in the week (October 11-17), down 20.2% from the previous week's tally. The state still accounted for 54% of all new cases in the country. Maharashtra saw an even steeper drop of 25%, recording 13,825 new cases during the week, down from 18,523 in the preceding week. http://dlvr.it/S9mgfV

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India is likely to host its own conference on the developing situation in the country next month. The government is in touch with Russia, China, US and several regional countries for the conference which is likely to take place here in the second week of November. According to sources, India has proposed that the conference be held on November 10 or 11. While there are no plans yet to invite the Taliban for the conference, an invite to Pakistan is not ruled out. http://dlvr.it/S9gPVJ

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Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the Centre intends to make forensic investigation mandatory for all criminal offences which are liable for six years of imprisonment. To ensure forensic investigation is made mandatory for such crimes, Shah said it was necessary to set up forensic laboratories in over 600 districts and to provide a mobile forensic van at the level of every police subdivision. http://dlvr.it/S9bcrj

On Wednesday India saw 19,156 fresh covid cases and 245 deaths. For the past two days, there has been a slight increase in cases. It might be the usual weekday effect (cases tend to increase after Monday) or because of the ongoing Durga puja. Only a handful of districts are now reporting over a hundread daily cases. Today only 28 districts reported more than 100 new cases. Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram and Thrissur districts in Kerala topped the list with over a thousand cases each. http://dlvr.it/S9WYG8

The government has reinstated its earlier guidelines by withdrawing a travel advisory issued on October 1 that made it mandatory for British nationals arriving in India to undergo a mandatory 10-day quarantine even if they are fully vaccinated. India had come out with the advisory as UK, even after recognising Covishield vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India, retained the 10-day quarantine period for fully vaccinated travellers from India. http://dlvr.it/S9WYFT

In a record 112 days, a total of 2,494 Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen generation plants have been commissioned at government hospitals across 736 districts with a capacity of producing 3,324 tonnes of medical oxygen per day. This includes 1,183 PSA plants sanctioned under the PM CARES Fund. http://dlvr.it/S9WYF6

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