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India’s Covid-19 active caseload drops below 2.5 lakh: Health ministry
The Covid-19 active caseload in India has dropped below 2.5 lakh with the recoveries exceeding new cases and low number of fatalities per day, the health ministry said on Sunday.The Covid-19 active caseload in India has dropped below 2.5…
Covid-19 vaccines 110% safe, impotency rumours complete nonsense: DCGI
As India gears up for the world's largest vaccination programme, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on Sunday quelled rumours surrounding the Covid-19 vaccines regarding impotency, rubbishing such speculations as "complete…
Arms, ammunition seized in J&K’s Poonch
Security forces Sunday recovered a cache of arms and ammunition near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police officer said. This was the third round of recovery of arms and ammunition in the district…
Congress leaders raise concern over grant of permission for restricted use of Covid-19 vaccine
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Sunday raised concerns over India's drugs regulator granting permission for restricted use of Bharat Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine and asked the government to explain why mandatory protocols and…
‘A decisive turning point,’ says PM Modi as Oxford, Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccines…
Hailing the approval given to two coronavirus vaccines as a "decisive turning point" in the spirited fight against the pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that this will accelerate the process for India to become a…
Every farmer-labourer part of movement a ‘satyagrahi’, they will take back their rights:…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday compared the ongoing farmers' protests against the three new Central agriculture-related laws with the Champaran agitation during the British rule, and said every farmer-labourer part of the current…
DCGI approves Oxford’s Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin vaccines for restricted…
The Drugs Controller General of India on Sunday gave nod to two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by Bharat Biotech for restricted emergency use. The DCGI allayed concerns over the safety…
Covid-19: 18,177 new cases take India’s virus tally to 1,03,23,965
India recorded 18,177 new Covid-19 cases cases in a day, while 99,27,310 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.15 per cent on Sunday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases…
US Congress slams China’s LAC hostility
US Congress overrode President Donald Trump's veto on the defence policy bill, which among other things, included calling out the Chinese government for its actions along the LAC. "China should work with India toward de-escalating the…
In a 1st, NIV-Pune isolates, cultures Covid’s UK variant
Pune's National Institute of Virology (NIV) has isolated and cultured the new UK variant of SARS-CoV2, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Saturday underlining that no other country has so far reported isolation and…
20 ministries, 23 depts to play big roles in vaccine roll-out
In its SOP, the health ministry has mentioned that coordination mechanisms at the national, state, district and block levels have already been defined. At least four departments - urban development, revenue, PWD, public health engineering -…
Daily Covid deaths fall to 7-month low of 216
Daily deaths from Covid-19 in India dipped to a seven-month low as 216 fatalities were recorded in the country on Saturday, the lowest since June 1. Maharashtra continued to record the highest number of deaths in the country, with 51…
Pvt cos, PSUs may get access to govt’s crime database, for a fee
Private companies may soon get to check for any criminal antecedents of a prospective employee by getting access to the Crime and Criminals Tracking Network Systems (CCTNS), a centralised repository of criminal records across the country's…
If demands not met, farmer unions threaten Delhi march on Jan 26
Noting that they haven't even got in writing whatever the government had agreed to on their "minor demands" during the December 30 talks, they said their position was absolutely clear on their core demands. The farmers will, however, not…
Operation to rescue hostage reveals 200m-long India-Bangladesh tunnel
Assam Police have found a 200-metre-long tunnel connecting India and Bangladesh in Karimganj, Assam. The tunnel leads to Sylhet in Bangladesh and miscreants use it regularly to smuggle goods or take abducted people to the other side, it is…
Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin too gets nod for emergency use
India's vaccine rollout will begin with the availability of two jabs- Oxford-Astra Zeneca's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's homegrown Covaxin- with the Drugs Controller General of India expected to issue final approvals on Sunday.…
Covid vaccine to be free for ‘most prioritised’ beneficiaries: Vardhan
The vaccine against Covid 19 will be provided free to most prioritised beneficiaries including one crore healthcare and two crore front-line workers, health minister Harsh Vardhan said. Official sources said various options like offering a…
Will quit politics if I fail to prove graft charges: M K Stalin
Referring to the memorandum submitted by the DMK to the governor last month listing the charges against the chief minister E Palaniswami and his colleagues, Velumani had said he would step down from his post if the charges were proved and…