The two-month Har Ghar Dastak 2.0 campaign commenced on Wednesday to expedite COVID-19 vaccination coverage by including all eligible beneficiaries through door-to-door campaigns. The focus will be on people in old-age homes, schools and colleges, prisons and brick kilns.

The Second Amendment of the U.S. constitution, which states that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed”, is often attributed as the root cause of all firearm-related violence.

The EU on May 30 reached an agreement to ban 90% of Russian crude oil imports by the end of the year. The partial embargo exempts pipeline oil in order to bypass Hungary’s objections to the ban.

As new COVID-19 cases in Mumbai cross the 500 mark, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal issued directions on Wednesday to increase testing on a war footing, especially with the monsoon around the corner

Severedonesk is important to Russian efforts to capture the Donbas before more Western arms arrive to bolster Ukraine’s defence. The city, which is 145 km south of the Russian border, is in an area that is the last pocket under Ukrainian government control in the Luhansk region of the Donbas.

Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues in May rose 44% from a year earlier to ₹1,40,885 crore, with receipts from domestic transactions and services imports rising at a matching pace, while goods imports yielded 43% higher taxes. “This is only the fourth time the monthly GST collection crossed ₹1.4 lakh crore mark since the inception of GST and the third month at a stretch since March 2022,” the Finance Ministry said.

A Mathura civil judge, who began hearing the Shahi Idgah mosque-Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi dispute case, on Thursday admitted a fresh suit which has come back to the civil court on the directions of the district court earlier this month. The suit by advocate Ranjana Agnihotri seeks ownership of the land on which the mosque is built, claiming that Lord Krishna was born there and that there are signs that a temple existed at the site before.

Across the globe, like never before, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s 131st birthday (April 14) was celebrated in diverse forms. To honour him and other anti-caste icons such as Jyotirao Phule, Canada’s British Columbia province has declared April as ‘Dalit History Month’

The Prime Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme (PMSSS) was introduced by the Congress-led UPA government in 2011 to provide funding to 5,000 meritorious students each year to study in private and government educational institutions across the country

In 2021, Payal Kapadia’s “A Night of Knowing Nothing”, which played in the parallel Semaine de la Critique (Cannes Critics’ Week) took home the L’Oeil d’Or