Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth is set to be the
first woman fighter pilot to take part in the Republic Day parade. Bhawana will join the IAF’s tableau displaying mock-ups of indigenously-manufactured Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, Light Combat Helicopter Rudra, Rohini radars, and BrahMos.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare
Harsh Vardhan posted a congratulatory tweet and called the moment marks “the dawn of empowered women-led New India.”
Currently posted at the Rajasthan airbase and commissioned on a MiG-21 Bison fighter plane, Bhawana has been shattering glass ceiling through her journey in the armed forces, and is no stranger to being first.
Set up Covid vaccine testing centre in Telangana: KT Rama Rao
January 20, 2021
Telangana Minister for IT and Municipal Administration K.T. Rama Rao - Nagara Gopal@thehindu×
Telangana IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao has appealed to Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan to set up a vaccine testing and certification laboratory in Hyderabad, on the lines of the Central Drug Laboratory in Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh.
Stating that Hyderabad is the ‘Vaccine Capital of the World’, he said the city manufactured 600 billion doses of different vaccines, contributing one-third of all the doses produced in the world.
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National Polio immunisation programme rescheduled to January 31
The National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been rescheduled to January 31. Earlier, the Centre had deferred the drive till further notice.
The National Immunisation Day (NID), commonly known as Pulse Polio Immunisation programme, was scheduled for January 17 across India. The Union Health Ministry has communicated the decision to defer the polio immunisation programme to all states through a letter on January 9. This is to inform that due to unforeseen activities, it is decided to postpone the scheduled Polio NID (National Immunisation Day) round from January 17, 2021 till further notice, according to the letter sent to the Principal Secretary in the Health department of all states.
PM Modi to launch vaccination drive in India, likely to meet with beneficiaries
India
Published: Thursday, January 14, 2021, 13:07 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 14: Prime Minister will launch the vaccine drive against COVID-19 on Saturday. The PM is also likely to interact with some of the beneficiaries of the vaccine.
Around 3 lakh people will receive the shots on Saturday. The details are being worked out and the PM would begin the vaccination programme, reports said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The vaccination drive will begin with 3,000 sites on Saturday and each centre would inoculate 100 people a day to start with.
Meanwhile, the National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been deferred till further notice by the Centre citing unforeseen activities .
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