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Vaccination hits a hurdle in Bengal as Co-WIN app develops glitches on 1st day
By Joydeep Thakur | Edited by Abhinav Sahay, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 03:16 PM IST
- The app was not opening. We had to log in and log out several times. It was also too slow, said an official.

Health minister deflects Congress' criticism over Covid-19 vaccine with photos
Written by Meenakshi Ray, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 03:12 PM IST
Manish Tewari had also said that the vaccines were being allowed to be used without the mandatory Phase 3 trials after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive.

Bigg Boss 14: Vikas says Devoleena won't be his proxy, hints she may enter soon
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 03:08 PM IST
Bigg Boss 14: Clarifying that neither Rashami Desai, nor Devoleena Bhattacharjee were approached to play his proxy, Vikas Gupta wished Devoleena all the best, in case she enters the show.

China builds hospital in 5 days after surge in Covid-19 cases
AP
UPDATED ON JAN 16, 2021 03:09 PM IST
The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, south of Beijing in Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

France closes 9 places of worship under campaign against Islamic extremism
ANI, Paris
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 03:06 PM IST
Three of the closed facilities is reported to be located in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris.

TRP scam: Ex-CEO of BARC hospitalised
PTI, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 03:04 PM IST
Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday after his blood sugar levels went up on Friday midnight.

Massive violence erupts in PoJK over road being built by China
ANI, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 02:59 PM IST
PoJK was already in chaos since the Imran Khan-led government made it the fifth province of Pakistan.

A security guard and a sanitation worker first to get Covid-19 vaccine in MP
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Abhinav Sahay, Bhopal
UPDATED ON JAN 16, 2021 02:58 PM IST
- Yadav has shown through for his commitment while managing the crowd of patients and visitors at the hospital without taking a single leave since March 2020, said a hospital official

1,300 to get Covid-19 vaccination on the first day
By Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram
PUBLISHED ON JAN 16, 2021 02:55 PM IST
Kerala has received 43,50,00 vials of the vaccine for the first phase of the vaccination.

Kimchi, kombucha demand on rise amid buyer's lockdown craze for fermented food
Bloomberg
UPDATED ON JAN 16, 2021 02:54 PM IST
A sudden spike in demand for fermented health products like kombucha and kimchi has appeared as the behavioural side effects of the pandemic and the lockdowns it spawned