Morning Digest – March 12, 2021

India’s indigenous COVID-19 vaccine covaxine from Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech has been removed from clinical trial mode and is now authorized for emergency use with Covishield of Oxford-AstraZeneca, NII Aayog member (health) VK Paul on Thursday said.

Access to COVID-19 vaccines, collaboration on technology and climate change are at the top of the agenda as Prime Minister Narendra Modi joins the Quadrilateral Framework’s virtual summit with US President Joseph Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihida Suga. (Quad) on Friday – For the first time the Indo-Pacific Group leaders are meeting.

A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was taken to hospital in Kolkata after being injured during her campaign in Nandigram, the Trinamool Congress leadership reiterated allegations that the party chief was targeted under a conspiracy.

After several rounds of talks, on Thursday, the day before the filing of nominations for the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, DMK completed the identification of constituencies for the CPI, Congress and CPI (M).

After a year the nation was brought to a standstill by coronovirus, President Joe Biden outlined his plan on Thursday night to make all adults vaccine-eligible by May 1 and to bring the country closer to “normal”. Used its first prime-time address for. “By the fourth of July. He provided new hope to the Americans and appealed afresh for their help.

Assam’s mandate 2021 is likely to go into the record book between the three chiefs as before, rather the major parties that lead them. For the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led block, two others are like double-edged swords.

On March 8, three police personnel were suspended in Kanpur on Thursday after being found guilty of negligence in the “accidental” death of the father of a minor girl allegedly gang-raped.

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the world was experiencing its first pandemic from coronovirus. Its director general, Tedros Adnom, said, “Pandemic is not a word used lightly or carelessly.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off a march from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi on Friday to celebrate the 75th year of independence.

The Biden administration once again indicated that the Quad (quadrilateral strategic dialogue between India, the US, Japan and Australia) is not a group about China and that the agenda for the first quad summit to be held on Friday is not China-centric.

Marking one year of damage and disruption, President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $ 1.9 trillion relief package into law, which he said would help the US defeat coronoviruses and bring the economy back to health.

Roger Federer captured a match point and was knocked out of the Qatar Open by Nicoloz Basilashvili of Georgia on Thursday in just the second match since his 13-month injury absence.