News18 Afternoon Digest: PM Modi Launches Vaccination Drive, Warns Against Falling Prey to Rumours; Farmer Leader Baldev Singh Sirsa Summoned by NIA for Questioning and Other Stories

PM Modi Launches Vaccination Drive, Warns Against Falling Prey to Propaganda, Rumours Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday kicked off the “world’s largest” vaccination campaign on Saturday as India will inoculate 3 lakh healthcare and frontline workers against Covid-19 on the first day. Over the next six to eight months, nearly three crore high-risk people, including healthcare and frontline workers, will be inoculated during the initial phase of COVID-19 vaccination drive that begins on Saturday. Farmer Leader Baldev Singh Sirsa Summoned by NIA for Questioning Farmer leader Baldev Singh Sirsa, who has been part of the farm laws negotiations with Union government that were held at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi, has been summoned by the National Investigation Agency for questioning on January 17. Signal Faced Outage Due to Millions of New Users and Elon Musk Was Around to Troubleshoot Signal, an encrypted messaging service, saw a meteoric rise in its downloads worldwide in the past few days following a “controversial” update in the privacy policy by the rival app WhatsApp.