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India acceptable to motorboat escaped nationwide HPV vaccination for teen girls
The Union Health Ministry is set to motorboat a nationwide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme targeting girls aged 14 years. The vaccination volition beryllium voluntary and escaped of cost, ensuring equitable entree crossed socio-economic groups. India volition usage Gardasil, a quadrivalent HPV vaccine, for extortion from HPV types 16 and 18, which origin cervical cancer, arsenic good arsenic types 6 and 11. “Global and Indian technological grounds confirms that a azygous dose provides robust and durable extortion erstwhile administered to girls successful the recommended property group,’’ a elder Health Ministry authoritative said.
TRAI backs merchantability of each disposable spectrum; proposes little introduction barriers, 35% cap
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) recommended auctioning the full disposable radiowave spectrum portion proposing little introduction barriers for caller players and a azygous 35% spectrum headdress to safeguard contention successful the telecom sector. While TRAI has not officially disclosed the combined basal terms of the full spectrum connected offer, arsenic per manufacture calculations, if each the spectrum connected connection crossed bands (excluding 600 MHz) is sold, the radiowaves could fetch astir ₹81,000 crore astatine the reserve price.
U.S. to connection passport services successful West Bank colony for archetypal time
The U.S. volition supply on-site passport services this week successful a colony successful the West Bank, marking the archetypal clip American consular officials person offered such services to settlers successful the occupied territory, U.S. officials said connected Tuesday. Most of the satellite considers Israel’s West Bank settlements illegal under planetary instrumentality relating to subject occupations. Israel disputes that the settlements are illegal, and galore connected the Israeli close advocator annexing the West Bank. Palestinians person agelong sought the West Bank for a aboriginal autarkic state, alongside Gaza and East Jerusalem.
Government blocks 5 OTT platforms for streaming obscene content
The authorities connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) blocked 5 OTT platforms for streaming obscene content, officials said. They said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has blocked MoodXVIP, Koyal Playpro, Digi Movieplex, Feel, and Jugnu pursuing owed procedure. Under the procedure, the authorities directs net work providers to artifact entree to OTT platforms nether the Information Technology Rules 2021 and the laws against obscenity.
DGCA grounds 4 craft of VSR Ventures, a period aft Ajit Pawar’s decease successful crash
Nearly a period aft the death of past Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a level crash, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has grounded 4 craft operated by the aforesaid charter institution that was flying him. The regulator besides announced a slew of measures for charter companies crossed the country, pursuing “a caller surge” successful incidents to guarantee tighter oversight, aft a high-level gathering connected Tuesday with respective charter operators.
Amid DoT push, WhatsApp appears to trial SIM-binding
Online messaging level WhatsApp appears to beryllium preparing to comply with the Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) SIM-binding directive issued precocious past year. The directive requires messaging platforms to guarantee that a user’s registered SIM paper is provisioned connected the handset utilized to entree the service, and to disable entree if it is not. It besides includes a perchance disruptive request that web-based instances, specified arsenic WhatsApp Web, beryllium logged retired each six hours.
Protest astatine AI summit: Four much Youth Congress members arrested
The Delhi constabulary connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) arrested 4 much Indian Youth Congress (IYC) members and added charges of rioting successful the FIR related to the “shirtless” protestation connected February 20 astatine the AI Impact Summit successful New Delhi. In response, Congress nationalist president Mallikarjun Kharge said, “We volition proceed to combat and proceed our conflict against those who person mortgaged our country.”
Kerala to go ‘Keralam’: Union Cabinet approves alteration of name
The Union Cabinet connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) approved the Kerala government’s connection to change the State’s sanction from ‘Kerala’ to ‘Keralam’, the sanction utilized successful the Malayalam language. The President volition present notation the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2026, to the Kerala Legislative Assembly to explicit its views, nether the proviso to Article 3 of the Constitution of India, a authorities connection said. Once these views are received, the Union authorities volition instrumentality further enactment get the President’s proposal to present the sanction alteration authorities successful Parliament.
Centre ne'er considered renaming West Bengal, says Mamata aft Kerala sanction change
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) said that contempt repeated requests from the State, the Union authorities was not considering her government’s repeated requests to alteration the State’s authoritative sanction to ‘Bangla’. Ms. Banerjee made these remarks hours aft the Union Cabinet approved the caller sanction of Kerala, ‘Keralam’. “Why bash we person to beryllium successful Y-Z for truthful long? When the boys and girls of our State spell for exams, they person to beryllium connected the backmost bench. Whenever I spell determination arsenic the Chief Minister, I americium fixed the past accidental to beryllium fixed this sanction successful alphabetical order,” the West Bengal Chief Minister said successful a video message. She was trying to impressment that since West Bengal begins with ‘W’, the sanction appears towards the extremity of the alphabetical order.
Swami Avimukteshwaranand moves Allahabad HC seeking anticipatory bail successful POCSO case
Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, connected Tuesday, moved the Allahabad High Court for anticipatory bail aft being booked by the Uttar Pradesh Police for the alleged intersexual harassment of 2 minors. Advocate Anjani Kumar Mishra, who represents the swami, confirmed that an exertion has been filed successful court. The FIR against the spiritual person and 1 of his aides, Mukundanand Giri, was registered connected the directions of a peculiar tribunal successful Prayagraj. On February 21, the tribunal had ordered the constabulary to enactment connected a ailment filed by Ashutosh Brahmachari and 2 minors, aged 14 and 17, who alleged intersexual maltreatment by the accused during the caller Magh Mela successful Prayagraj.
Iran FM says atomic woody ‘within reach’ up of U.S. talks
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) that a atomic woody was “within reach”, up of talks with the United States scheduled for aboriginal this week. “We person a historical accidental to onslaught an unprecedented statement that addresses communal concerns and achieves communal interests,” said Mr. Araghchi, successful a station connected the societal media tract X. He added that a woody was “within reach, but lone if diplomacy is fixed priority.”
Suspect and 4 others killed aft stabbing successful Washington
A fishy and 4 different people were dormant connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) aft a sheriff’s lawman responded to reports that a antheral was stabbing radical extracurricular a location adjacent Tacoma, Washington. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said deputies initially responded to reports connected Tuesday (February 24) greeting that a 32-year-old antheral was violating a no-contact order. They obtained a transcript of the order, learned it was not valid due to the fact that it had not been served connected the fishy and headed to the country to supply it to him.
CIA offers tips to imaginable informants successful Iran arsenic Trump considers subject action
The Central Intelligence Agency offered assistance to imaginable informants successful Iran connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026), providing Farsi-language instructions connected ways to safely interaction the U.S. spy bureau arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump mulls imaginable subject strikes. The station is the latest successful a bid of recruitment pitches successful Farsi, Korean, Russian and Mandarin that offered unafraid ways to interaction the CIA. The Farsi-language connection posted Tuesday (February 24) to X, Instagram and YouTube, however, comes astatine an particularly uneasy clip successful U.S.-Iran relations and arsenic the Iranian theocracy faces caller protests astatine home.
Warner Bros. opens doorway to Paramount arsenic bidding warfare heats up
Warner Bros. Discovery said connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) it has received a revised acquisition proposal from Paramount Skydance, signalling that the connection could unfastened the doorway to the institution rethinking its woody with Netflix. The sweetened connection was the latest instalment of a bidding warfare acceptable to reshape Hollywood and U.S. media, and has drawn White House attention, with U.S. President Donald Trump insisting helium volition person a accidental connected the outcome.
T20 World Cup | Brook’s peculiar sound guides England into the semifinals
Harry Brook fancied a promotion to No. 3 and struck a superb century (100, 51b, 10x4, 4x6) to resistance England to a two-wicket triumph implicit Pakistan successful their T20 World Cup Super Eight match at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026). Brook became the archetypal skipper to notch up a ton successful the past of the tournament, ensuring his squad was not near to rue the 3 wickets it mislaid successful the PowerPlay. England got to the 165-run people with 5 balls to spare and sealed its spot successful the semifinals.
T20 World Cup IND vs ZIM | Samson’s agelong nett league a motion of top-order rejig for India?
Less than 48 hours aft wilting against South Africa, the Men successful Blue limbered up astatine the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium present connected Tuesday night. With the Proteas and the West Indies staying mode up successful their Net Run Rate, India has to beryllium astatine its ruthless champion successful its adjacent 2 Super Eight Group 1 games. As the ICC T20 World Cup cruises towards the concern end, India volition instrumentality connected Zimbabwe successful this coastal metropolis engaged adjusting to the aboriginal stirrings of summer. Thursday’s clash is simply a must-win crippled for the defending champion, and a batting rejig seems to beryllium successful store.
