An expert panel of India’s drugs regulator may next week consider approving Covovax, the second Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India, to be used as a booster dose, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Centre time till March 15 to implement the OROP payout to nearly 25 lakh army pensioners, who are awaiting their dues.

Consensual sex under the pretext of marriage does not amount to rape, the Orissa high court has said, adding that rape laws should not be used to regulate intimate relationships when a woman enters one by her own choice

The rally would be attended by Aam Aadmi Party president and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, the party spokesman said.

The town of over 20,000 people saw streets packed with commercial vehicles loaded with belongings from evacuated houses as authorities stepped up relief and rescue efforts to forestall any loss of life. The rushed evacuation left many residents emotional.

There is the Helang bypass, work on which is underway at the town’s foothill around 13 km away from Joshimath, that is meant to shorten the distance to Badrinath by 30 km.

The wild elephant that sneaked into Sultan Bathery town in Wayanad (north Kerala) district and attacked a person last week was on Monday captured after being tranquillised by the task force of the forest department

The land subsidence incident in Joshimath may have been caused by rampant infrastructure development and the climate crisis, but it is also happening in a state whose disaster management strategy has several gaps.

Former minister and senior YSRCP lawmaker Dokka Manikya Varaprasad requested that the judges refrain from making political comments that might not be in the true spirit of the Constitution, as they could be exploited by vested interests to serve their political purpose.