While the streets of the national capital wore a deserted look on the first day of the six-day lockdown on Monday, sounds of ambulance siren echoed in the city roads, especially in the areas having dedicated Covid-19 hospitals.

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Slamming the new vaccine policy as “the Modi government abdicating its responsibility in the garb of giving more powers to states”, Congress Tuesday said it will lead to multiple prices of vaccines and shift a large financial…

Probably in one of the highest yearly spend towards disaster mitigation, the Centre has released more than Rs 30,000 crore of disaster funds to states and Union Territories since the beginning of the pandemic last year.​​ Up to…

An urgent meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday morning considered a set of options proposed by the government's expert group on vaccinations that was a sharp departure from the Covid vaccine strategy in place since…

The government on Tuesday extended the Rs 50 lakh insurance cover to health workers for the next three months to ensure that in case of any adversity due to Covid-19, their families are taken care of.​

A 70-year-old seer attending the Maha Kumbh died of Covid-19 at a Covid care centre in Haridwar after he was allegedly turned away by both AIIMS Rishikesh and Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) for lack of ICU beds.

There would be a need for an additional 1.2 billion doses (assuming two jabs per person) from May, with the government opening up vaccination for everyone above 18 years. This is because an estimated 44% or around 600 million of the…

At a time when Madhya Pradesh is crying out for oxygen, there have been instances of tankers carrying oxygen to the state being stopped by officials in other states, like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Maharashtra. In some cases,…

The Justice B S Chauhan inquiry commission has found no evidence of wrongdoing by Uttar Pradesh police in the encounter killings of gangster Vikas Dubey and his five associates, which were allegedly staged to exact revenge for the murder of…

Activating Article 224A of the Constitution that had been dormant for 58 years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed high court chief justices to start appointing retired HC judges as ad hoc judges for two to five years if the HC faced…

While the government has allowed sale of Covid vaccines in the open market from May 1, the shots will not be available for sale at chemists or pharmacies. Only hospitals and approved vaccination centres can administer the vaccines. Adverse…

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said 2020 was one of the three warmest years on record, despite a cooling La Niña event, and the global average temperature that year was about 1.2°Celsius above the pre-industrial…

Most companies are expected to price the Covid-19 vaccines around Rs 700-1,000 per dose, when they roll out the jabs in the private market later this year, up from the government-mandated price of Rs 250 per dose. Serum Institute CEO Adar…

With states holding up supply of liquid medical oxygen, the union home ministry on Tuesday stepped in to ensure that supply remained unhindered, even as the Centre prepared to rework some of the allocation over the next few days to meet…

Jammu and Kashmir has logged a whopping rise in its earnings from the auction of 228 location-specific permits for liquor vends — from around Rs 10 crores in previous years to Rs 140 crores this time — courtesy its new liquor…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said current strategies to contain the rapid resurgence in Covid-19 infections were aimed at ensuring least loss of lives and livelihoods and appealed to states to resort to lockdowns only as the very…

India reported over 2.94 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, the second highest daily case count ever recorded by any country, even as the day's death toll crossed 2,000 for the first time since the pandemic's outbreak.