The Railways on Saturday said its isolation coaches to treat mild Covid-19 cases have been deployed at 17 stations across seven states of the country.

Shattering yet another glass ceiling in the overwhelmingly male-dominated armed forces, the first-ever batch of 83 women jawans have now been inducted into the Corps of Military Police (CMP) in the 13-lakh strong Army.

At least 25 people have been killed and over 50 wounded after a bomb exploded near a school in western Kabul, AP reported quoting Afghanistan's Interior Ministry.

The Supreme Court has directed the 12-member National Task Force (NTF) set up on Saturday to streamline oxygen allocation in the country to form sub-groups for each state/Union Territory to conduct an audit for determining whether the…

Samples from a poultry farm in Ludhiana tested positive for bird flu, prompting the district authorities to form a committee for a culling exercise and containment operations. The National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, Bhopal,…

A fire broke out at a chemical factory at a village in Ambernath of Maharashtra's Thane district in the early hours of Saturday and no casualties were reported in the incident, a civic official said. The blaze erupted around 12.30 am at a…

Over 100 medical staff members at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here tested positive for COVID-19. A total of 110 doctors and nursing staff in Rishikesh tested positive for the infection, AIIMS PRO Harish Thapliyal said,…

Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday hit back at the Congress for attacking the government over its Central Vista redevelopment project, saying the party's discourse is "bizarre" as its leaders themselves had supported the idea when…

The Supreme Court on Saturday set up a national task force(NTF) to streamline oxygen allocation across the country. "The rationale for constituting a Task Force at a national level is to facilitate a public health response to the pandemic…

India received 2,060 oxygen concentrators, 30,000 vials of Remdesivir, 467 ventilators and three oxygen generation plants from US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands and Israel on Friday, the…

The Union Health Ministry has revised the national policy for admission of COVID patients to health care facilities making it not mandatory for the patients to carry a Covid positive test report.

In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Thackeray said the vaccination drive in Maharashtra has been the "fastest and the most efficient in the country". At present, people have to register their names on CoWIN platform introduced by…

The Drugs Controller General of India has approved an anti-COVID oral drug, developed by DRDO, for emergency use as adjunct therapy in moderate to severe coronavirus patients, the defence ministry said on Saturday. It said clinical trials…

Delhi recorded as many as 17,364 fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases in the national capital has reached over 13.10 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 19,071. As many as 332 fatalities have been…

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has urged the central government to allow states to develop their ownapplications for COVID-19 vaccination programme.

The Union ministry of health and family welfare on Saturday revised the national policy for admission of Covid-19 patients to Covid care facilities, as the country reels under a tsunami of coronavirus cases pushing the health infrastructure…

The Drugs Controller General of India’s (DCGI) has approved an anti-Coviddrug - 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) for emergency use. This has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of Defence Research…

A potential cancer drug repurposed for Covid-19 treatment -- 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) – has received the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) nod for emergency use as adjunct therapy for hospitalized moderate to severe Covid-19…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke to chief ministers of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu on the COVID-19 situation in their states, government sources said. Modi has been interacting with various…