New Delhi, March 23 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Bharatiya Janata Party MPs on Tuesday that despite facing odds such as tension at borders, cyclones and earthquakes during the coronavirus pandemic,
New Delhi, March 23 (PTI): Eighty-one per cent of the 401 samples sent by the government for genome sequencing have tested positive for the United Kingdom variant of COVID-19, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Si
New Delhi, March 23 (PTI): From April 1, all people above 45 years of age are entitled to get COVID-19 vaccine, Union Minster Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday.
Briefing reporters on the decisions taken by t
Mumbai, March 23 (IANS) Months before the case of suspended encounter specialist Sachin Vaze came to the fore, the State Intelligence Department (SID) of the Maharashtra government had red flagged the transfers
New Delhi, March 22 (MExN): The Union Government has no proposal enact a law on the lines of Australian media code, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Prakash Javadekar informed on March 22.
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS): India has decided to extend the interval between doses of Covishield vaccines from four to eight to four to eight weeks, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
The Ministry said that
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22 (IANS): As the government plans to reopen schools with its new unlocking regulations, the majority of students on the Poland-based online learning platform Brainly are comfortable with the n
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh has moved the Supreme Court stating that Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has been interfering in various investigations and s
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday virtually launched the 'catch the rain' campaign programme and also congratulated the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Prades
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) India recorded 46,951 infections in the last 24 hours, highest so far in the last four and half months, taking the total tally to 1,16,46,081 on Monday.
According to the Health Min
Bengaluru, March 22 (IANS) Ruling out any possibility of re-enforcing lockdown, semi-lockdown or night curfew in Bengaluru, Karnataka Health Minister K. Sudhakar on Monday said that the government was looking t
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) Kalinga Literary Festival's virtual platform KLF Bhava Samvad hosted writer, diplomat, academic and Mahatma's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi who joined in a conversation with po
New Delhi, March 22 (PTI): The coronavirus pandemic is on the upswing again in India which observed a Janata curfew' on this day a year ago, having paved the way for an over two-month long strict nationwide
NEW DELHI, MARCH 22 (IANS): India would need to generate at least 83 per cent of its electricity from (non-hydropower) renewable energy sources by 2050, if it were to commit to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas
JAIPUR, MARCH 22 (IANS): Five children below 8-years, including four siblings, lost their lives in Bikaner district apparently in a freak accident while playing hide and seek when all of them hid inside an iron
Chandigarh, March 21 (PTI): More than 6 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been sent to 76 nations, while 4.5 crore doses have been administered to beneficiaries in the country till now, Union Health Minister
BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 21 (IANS): President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday emphasised that for the inclusive development of a country, strong socio-economic structure is necessary along with the industrial advancement.
New Delhi, March 21 (PTI): A recent order by the National Blood Transfusion Council has said that a person cannot donate blood for the next 28 days after taking the last dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
As ap
New Delhi, March 21 (IANS): Taking a serious note of the allegations of corruption levelled against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, Nationalist Cong
NEW DELHI, MARCH 21 (IANS): In a shocking incident, a superstitious, childless woman brutally strangulated a 3-year-old boy on a tantrik's urging as he had allegedly told her that she would conceive a child