News Headlines : 17th August 2021

  • UP CM Yogi Adityanath has decided to open ATS commando center in Deoband with immediate effect.
  • In ATS Commando, work on war footing has also started, about one and a half dozen bright ATS officers selected from across the state will be posted here.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with the Indian para-athlete contingent for Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games virtually.
  • We want to establish a government that includes all sides, TOLOnews quotes Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid.
  • Need for constantly improving techniques to develop sports culture in the country, urges Prime Minister.
  • External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar arrives in New York; To preside over two high-level signature events of the United Nations.
  • Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, Delhi Government said that school in Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar will be renamed. Now name of school on the name of Tokyo Olympic medalist Ravi Dahiya.
  • In Afghanistan, military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians resumed at Kabul airport in wee hours today; Indian Air Force Aircraft C-17 lands at Jamnagar Airbase carrying Indian Ambassador including Embassy staff and others. 
  • Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya reaches Guwahati to review the COVID-19 situation in North-Eastern states.
  • National COVID-19 recovery rate improves to 97.51 per cent. 
  • India witnesses highest single-day vaccination of 88 lakh 13 thousand doses in the last 24 hours.
  • Centre allocates 267.35 crore rupees to Kerala under emergency COVID response package-2.
  • Odisha will continue to sponsor Indian hockey teams for another 10 years, says CM Naveen Patnaik.
  • A brief monsoon session of Uttar Pradesh Legislature begins.