New Delhi, May 21 (PTI): To address the shortage of COVID-19 jabs in the country, the government is exploring the possibility of boosting production of vaccines, including identifying manufacturing sites for in
NEW DELHI, MAY 21 (IANS): Ayush Ministry has started a dedicated community support helpline to provide AYUSH-based approaches and solutions for the challenges raised by Covid-19.
Through the helpline experts
New Delhi, May 21 (PTI): The Union home ministry has asked states and union territories to strengthen facilities for vulnerable groups, especially children, who have been orphaned in the second wave of the COVI
NEW DELHI, MAY 21 (IANS): Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday highlighted the work of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 30th death anniversary and also attacked the government for bulldozing th
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday paid tributes to former Prime Minister and his father Rajiv Gandhi here on his 30th death anniversary.
Rahul Gandhi visited Veer Bhumi and pai
NEW DELHI/ MAY 21 (IANS): Noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna, synonymous with the Chipko movement, on Friday passed away due to Covid-19 at the age of 94.
He was under treatment at AIIMS Rishikesh and
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS): Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday said that there were close to 200 cases of 'black fungus' reported so far in the Capital and advised people to report such c
Panaji, May 21 (IANS): In a major setback, the Goa government lost the rape case against former editor-in-chief of Tehelka after a metropolitan magistrate court on Friday acquitted the senior journalist of rape
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS): A MiG-21 aircraft of Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Moga in Punjab early Friday in which the pilot was killed, IAF officials said. The IAF aircraft was on a routine training sorti
Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh), May 21 (IANS): A 10-year-old boy, who was found selling illicit liquor in Nighasan, has been rescued by the police.
The boy, who quit school because of the pandemic, was alle
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Indian Army chief General M.M. Naravane reviewed operational preparedness of the force along the border with China in Arunachal Pradesh region. The Army chief also reviewed security sit
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Only 24 hours after recording less than 4,000 deaths, India on Friday once gain breached the grim milestone as daily fatalities due to Covid-19 rose to 4,209, according to the Union Hea
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that his motto has always been ‘Health for those without wealth.
He was speaking at the opening session of the 33rd meeting
Kolkata, May 20 (PTI): Jyotsna Bose, a 93-year-old trade union leader from Kolkata, became the "first woman" in the country whose body has been donated for medical research to find out the effects of
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI): The Indian Medical Association on Thursday released fresh figures on Covid-related fatalities among doctors, saying 329 of them succumbed to the disease during the ongoing second wave o
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI): JNU faculty member and recipient of prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award Professor Deepak Gaur died of coronavirus here on Thursday.
He was 48.
Gaur was a faculty member of t
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI): The death toll on the barge that sank in the Arabian Sea rose to 49 with the recovery of more bodies even as the Navy and the Coast Guard searched for 37 other missing persons since the
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI): If the vaccination drive against coronavirus is not ramped up and COVID-19 appropriate-behaviour is not maintained, there is a possibility of a third wave of the pandemic in 6-8 months,
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI): The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Centre to take steps to get the medicine -- Amphotericin B -- used for treating black fungus which is primarily affecting COVID-19 recovered peo
New Delhi, May 20 (PTI): Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide free education in Navodaya Vidyalayas to children orphaned due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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