Morning Digest: December 18, 2021
The HinduThe World Health Organisation on Friday announced it has granted emergency approval to the India-manufactured coronavirus vaccine Covovax. A report released by U.S. forensic investigation firm Arsenal Consultancy on Friday has revealed that activist Rona Wilson’s cell phone was attacked by the Pegasus spyware 49 different times and was successful in infecting his phone before his arrest on June 6, 2018, for alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon violence case. A meeting of the Election Commission of India with the Prime Minister’s Office last month that was reported on Friday caused the Opposition to cry foul and question the credibility of the poll body. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has suffered a stunning defeat in a parliamentary by-election that was viewed as a referendum on his government amid weeks of scandal and soaring COVID-19 infections. The Odisha government on Friday approved ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel’s proposal to set up a 24 million tonne per annum integrated steel plant in Mahakalpara block of Kendrapara district at an estimated investment of ₹1.02 lakh crore.
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