New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind contributed over Rs 5 lakh for the construction of a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya as the nationwide drive to collect donations kicked off on Friday.

New Delhi: India is all set to roll out the world's biggest vaccination programme on Saturday with over 3 lakh healthcare workers to be inoculated on the first day of the much-anticipated drive, which the government said is "probably the beginning of the end" of COVID-19.

Bengaluru: A total of 243 centres have been prepared for the launch of the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive across the state on January 16, including 10 centres in Bengaluru, Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Friday.

New Delhi: Senior Journalist Nidhi Razdan on Friday said that she was a victim of “Very serious Phishing attack” adding that her Harvard University offer of teaching post was fraudulent. Razdan had, in June last year, announced that she would be quitting NDTV to take up the new job at Harvard.

Amid an ongoing exodus from the TMC, Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy hinted that she is having problems with the ruling party in West Bengal and may take a "decision" on Saturday.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not respect farmers and wants to tire out those protesting against the Centre's new agri laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Friday.

The Election Commission will extend "full assistance" to the government in identifying targeted beneficiaries at the polling station level for the COVID-19 vaccination drive, but wants health authorities to delete the data once the inoculation exercise is over, sources privy to the development said on Friday.