Election Commission on Wednesday banned former Telangana chief minister and BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao from campaigning for 48 hours, for making “derogatory and objectionable statements” against Congress. KCR at a press meet in Sircilla on April 5, had referred to the congress leaders as ‘sons of dogs’. He also called the the government as the government of ‘lathkhors’ and calling them ‘pakka chavatas, daddammas, chetakani chavatas’ (You are useless fellow).

Normally, the northern plains, central India, and adjoining areas of peninsular India experience around three days of heat waves in May

The application said AstraZeneca’s vaccine formula was licensed to Pune-based vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) and over 175 crore doses of Covishield have been administered in the country