NEW DELHI, JUNE 8 (IANS): From Tuesday onwards, Covid-19 vaccine doses provided free of cost by the Central government to states and the Union Territories (UTs) will be allocated based on criteria such as popul
KOLKATA, JUNE 8 (IANS): With the Covid infection rate coming down below 10 per cent and the number of daily cases hovering around 5,000, the Mamata Banerjee government is mulling lifting of restrictions imposed
New Delhi, June 8 (PTI): Use of non-transferable electronic vouchers approved by the Reserve Bank of India will be encouraged to enable people to financially support COVID-19 inoculation of economically weaker
New Delhi, June 8 (PTI): The government will spend up to Rs 1.45 lakh crore additional money to provide free vaccines and foodgrains to people devastated by the deadly second wave of COVID infections, sour
NEW DELHI, JUNE 8 (IANS): The Centre on Tuesday approved the release of the guidelines for development of e-content for children with disabilities.
Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'
NEW DELHI, JUNE 8 (IANS): India on Tuesday logged 86,498 new Covid infections in 24 hours, less than one lakh cases for the first time in past 66 days, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said.
It i
NEW DELHI, JUNE 8 (IANS): The climate emergency will have a catastrophic human and economic impact in India. Different threats will interact to devastating effect, as exemplified by cyclones Tauktae and Yaas du
New Delhi, June 8 (PTI): More than 1.19 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
Over 24 crore vaccine doses hav
Pune, June 7 (IANS) At least 17 persons, mostly women, were killed in a major fire, followed by explosions, that erupted in a sanitiser manufacturing factory in Maharashtra's Pune district on Monday afterno
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Following several requests for second dose of vaccines from people planning to travel abroad, the Centre on Monday issued guidelines to states and Union Territories to provide vaccines
Kolkata, June 7 (PTI): At least 20 persons were killed in lightning strikes in three districts of south Bengal on Monday, a state disaster management official said.
Nine persons died in Murshidabad, nine per
NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 (IANS): Expressing confidence about the reforms in defence sector, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that these reforms will make India a global powerhouse in the times to come.
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI): The Centre is conducting a study to assess the presence of SARS-CoV-2, or novel coronavirus, in the Ganga as corpses were found dumped in the river during the second Covid wave, and wer
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI): Asserting that India is on track to vaccinate its entire adult population by December, top officials sources on Monday said a blueprint is in place to ensure a total supply of 187.
NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 (IANS): In a bid to begin live streamlining of court proceedings, the Supreme court's e-committee has released the draft model rules inviting inputs, feedback and suggestions from all stak
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI): The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Monday asked schools to conduct their pending class 12 practicals and internal assessments only in online mode, and submit marks by June
Pune, June 7 (PTI): At least 12 workers, mostly women, were killed and five others missing after a major fire broke out at a chemical firm in an industrial area in Pune district on Monday afternoon, fire depart
New Delh, June 7 (PTI): Social media platform Twitter is learnt to have approached the government seeking more time to comply with the new IT rules.
According to sources, the micro-blogging site has sai
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI): With several states taking steps towards unlocking and easing of restrictions amid a decline in COVID-19 cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned people against any laxit
New Delhi, June 7 (PTI): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said 28,252 cases of mucormycosis have so far been reported from 28 states/UTs in the country, of which 86 per cent cases have a history of