Breaking News, November 3 | Highlights

1987 batch IFS officer Sanjay Bhattacharyya has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Switzerland: Ministry of External Affairs

Technical Advisory Group of WHO recommends Emergency Use Listing status for Bharat Biotech's Covaxin: Sources. 

 The COVID-19 vaccination will remain suspended at civic and government-run centres in Mumbai for next four days in the wake of the festive season, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Wednesday.

Jammu and Kashmir Govt renames 'Lakes and Waterways Development Authority' as 'Jammu and Kashmir Lake Conservation and Management Authority'

Indian Air Force promotes Balakot air strike hero Abhinandan to Group Captain rank

Germany experiencing 'pandemic of unvaccinated': health minister

He will offer prayers at Kedarnath Temple, and inaugurate Shri Adi Shankaracharya Samadhi & unveil the statue of Shri Adi Shankaracharya. The Samadhi has been reconstructed after the destruction in the 2013 floods: Govt

I announced it in the budget & my scheme has been notified too. Registration has also begun. He (AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal) copies my schemes. He is habituated to this. He is a 'copy master': Goa CM Pramod Sawant on Kejriwal's promise of free pilgrimage in the state

Sensex tumbles 257.14 pts to end at 59,771.92; Nifty falls 59.75 pts to 17,829.20

CDSCO( Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation) has approved extension of self life of Covaxin up to 12 months, from date of manufacture. This approval is based on the availability of additional stability data, which was submitted to CDSCO: Bharat Biotech

• So far you've been working to take people to vaccination centres, now it's time to reach every house for door-to-door vaccine
• Ensure 1st dose for unvaccinated people, but give equal attention to 2nd dose
• You can take help of local religious leaders to spread awareness about Covid vaccines, fight rumours
• Need to adopt innovative ways to increase vaccination in districts with low Covid vaccination coverage
• I recently met Pope Francis in Vatican; Special emphasis needed on taking message of religious leaders on vaccine to public

PM Modi holds review meet on low vaccine coverage in over 40 districts

2000 EV charging stations will be established in the next 12 months and another 8000 in the next two years to achieve target of 10,000 EV charging stations in the next three years: SM Vaidya, Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation

Senior Taliban commander among dead in hospital attack in Kabul yesterday: AFP News Agency quotes official

The Narcotics Squad of the Outer North District police has seized 6kg heroin worth approximately Rs 18 crores, two persons arrested: Brijendra Kumar Yadav, DCP, Outer North-Delhi.

Uttarakhand: Badrinath Temple decorated with 10 quintals of flowers on the occasion of Diwali 2021. 

Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to the country after concluding his visit to Rome (Italy), Vatican City and Glasgow (Scotland).

COVID-19: Mizoram reported 420 recoveries and a total of 435 deaths. Active cases 6064.

At least 19 killed and 50 wounded in a gun and bomb assault at a military hospital in Kabul. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack: AFP

Price of petrol & diesel in Delhi at Rs 110.04 per litre & Rs 98.42 per litre respectively today (same as yesterday). Petrol & diesel prices per litre- Rs 115.85 & Rs 106.62 in Mumbai; Rs 110.49 & Rs 101.56 in Kolkata; Rs 106.66 & Rs 102.59 in Chennai respectively.

Attari, Punjab: Indian government releases 10 Pakistani fishermen. "They were arrested about 4-5 years ago for trespassing and have now been released after completion of their jail term," said Protocol Officer Sunil Pal'.

"US can start giving kids aged 5-11 the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine," AFP quotes Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as stating.