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Centre failed to provide vaccines to states: Delhi Development Minister Gopal Rai SECTIONS Last Updated: May 21, 2021, 06:02 PM IST Share Synopsis Aam Aadmi Party MLA Atishi had on Thursday said Delhi's stock of Covishield vaccine for the 18-44 age group will last less than a day and the government will have to shut more than 150 vaccination sites. Agencies Delhi Development Minister Gopal Rai (File Pic) Amid an acute shortage of vaccines in the national capital, Delhi Development Minister Gopal Rai on Friday accused the Centre of "failing" in its duty of providing vaccines to states, and hop...
Monumental loss Leaving behind an indelible image of an able and efficient administrator, a noted town planner, possessing good management skills, never compromising with principles of honesty and probity, prompt in taking critical decisions and living a simple personal life, former Indian civil servant and politician, twice Governor of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir, Jagmohan Malhotra left for his heavenly abode. Known for being a tough and unyielding man in his way of functioning, as he believed and practiced transparency and honesty, he had earned lot many admirers as also avowed critics...
In 1984, he was rewarded with the position of J&K governor, paving the way for a role which brought about a dramatic rupture of links with Congress, endeared him to BJP and defined his legacy.
Lives are full of twists and turns but only a few represent the kind of turnaround that marked Jagmohan's journey, with the bureaucrat-turned-politician going from being a close member of Sanjay Gandhi's crew which was blamed for Emergency excesses to being a saffron icon who, as J&K governor, took the bold, if hugely controversial, decision to dissolve the state assembly when Pakistan-fuelled insurgency had threatened to overwhelm the government machinery. It is also a story of the opportunities that India offered post-independence to talented and ambitious youth who escaped the communal po...