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On June 28, Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister, announced relief packages for Covid-affected sectors. The packages include several sectors, including health, tourism, MSME, agriculture, tourism and others.

On June 26, a case of abduction and religious conversion of two Sikh girls came to light from Jammu & Kashmir. As per reports, an 18-year-old Sikh Girl from Badgam district was lured and converted to Islam. Another case was of a girl from Mehjoor Nagar in Srinagar, attended function of her Muslim friend, from where she was reportedly kidnapped and married off to a boy who attended the function. While the girl was not a minor, she is still missing.

On Monday (June 28), the Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition seeking protection of Hindus from the dominant Muslim community in the Nuh district (Mewat) of Haryana.

Earlier today, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) test-fired a new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile in the Agni series, called ‘Agni Prime’, from the integrated test range in Orissa’s Chandipur.

The Arvind Kejriwal led Delhi government inflated the national capital's oxygen demand by over four times during the peak of the second wave, the Supreme Court's oxygen audit team has found, Times of India has reported.

The political landscape of opposition parties in India is bubbling with excessive activity, planning, partnerships and in-fighting. With the NCP stealthily emerging as the new opposition aggressor, Congress- the only national opposition party at the moment is struggling to keep its government afloat in Rajasthan and Punjab.

In the months of April and May, India grappled with the devastating second wave of Covid-19. Now, with the speculations about the inevitability of the third wave of Covid-19, the central government has revised the Covid-19 vaccination guidelines in the country. Under the new centralised vaccine policy, India on June 21 (Monday) administered more than 80 lakh vaccine doses, the highest in a single day. However, Delhi, which was one of the worst-hit states by the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, remained to be one of the worst performers in the country-wide inoculation drive.

A week ago, as media reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi met several Union Ministers along with Party President JP Nadda, Rajnath Singh and others, rumours gained ground that there might be a cabinet shuffle on the cards. Amidst the rumours, several politicians, who have otherwise not got the favours they expected from the government, have now started clamoring for a position. First among equals in that respect was BJP politician Subramanian Swamy.

Since the Uttar Pradesh police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad busted a religious country-wide conversion racket this week, more and more victim’s families are coming out to share their plight. 

BHUBANESWAR: After a lull of more than three months due to the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic leading to restriction in movement of manpower, material and machinery, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is set to back in action.