New Delhi, Oct 23 Booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine might become necessary sometime next year-depending on how long the first two doses protect against hospitalisation and death-Dr Randeep Guleria, chief of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Scien..

New Delhi, Oct 23 : States must ensure coronavirus precautions are followed strictly during the festive season, the Government said in an advisory on Saturday, listing measures like promoting online shopping and avoiding unnecessary travel to stop infecti..

New Delhi, Oct 17 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will give tips to all the BJP’s National office-bearers and the party’s Morcha (wing) chiefs on how to take forward the achievements of the Central Government to the masses ahead of the ..

New Delhi, Oct 13: Gita Gopinath, International Monetary Fund's Chief Economist, told NDTV today that with 50 per cent vaccination, India is high in confidence, especially in the backdrop of many Nations failing to meet the 40 per cent target. But concern..

New Delhi, Oct 7 The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Thursday that India’s efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, insisting that “to some extent, we say that we haven't controlled the second wave of Covid”. ..

NEW DELHI, Oct 4  : The Supreme Court today accepted the Centre's submission that Rs 50,000 compensation shall be paid to the relatives of those who died after contracting the coronavirus. The financial compensation - that will include past and futur..

New Delhi, Oct 2 India reported 24,354 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a slight decrease of 8.8 per cent from yesterday, taking the overall caseload to 3,37,91,061. At least 234 deaths due to coronavirus were also reported in last 24 hours.Here a..

NEW DELHI, Sep 30: The Government said that increased population density raises chances of COVID-19 spread and it will be prudent to avoid non-essential travel and observe festivity at low key.Around 69% of the country's adult population has received at l..

NEW DELHI, Sep 26 India has reported a surge in its active Covid-19 cases and deaths on Sunday, as per the latest data by the Union Ministry of Health. India saw a rise of 2,034 active cases in a day. At present, India's active case count stands at 3,03,4..

Chennai, Sep 24It was an emotional moment at the Apollo Institute of Colorectal Surgery, Chennai as Dr JD (name changed for privacy), a 28-years-old post-graduate medical student who had successfully undergone Robotic Colorectal surgery for low rectal can..

New Delhi, Sep 15 The Centre's attempts to resume the stalled talks with Naga rebels in India's North East haven't borne fruit despite a potential new Government Interlocutor having been finalised. The reason: the incumbent is yet to relinquish the post.T..

NEW DELHI, Sep 14 The Finance Ministry has permitted 11 States to borrow an additional amount of Rs 15,721 crore after these States achieved the capital expenditure target set for the June quarter.These States are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,..

NEW DELHI, Sep 13India on Monday reported 27,254 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the country’s coronavirus tally to 33,264,175, according to data updated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at 9 am.The count of daily new cases..

NEW DELHI, Sep 11India recorded 33,376 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours on Saturday. This is 4.6 percent lower than the daily case count of 34,973 cases recorded on Friday. There are 3,91,516 active cases in the country at present, which is 870 more than wh..

Kattankulathur, Sep 8SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Kattankulathur is offering scholarships to 300 students from the Perambalur constituency, announced Dr T R Paarivendhar, SRMIST’s Founder Chancellor and Perambalur Constituency M..

Mumbai, Sep 7The third wave of Covid is already upon Mumbai, the city's Mayor has said, pointing to a sudden spike in cases. "The third-wave of Covid-19 is not coming, it is here," said Kishori Pednekar, adding that an announce-ment regarding the matter h..

NEW DELHI, Sep 5 India reported 42,766 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, with 308 people succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours, according to data shared by the Union Health Ministry.Total recoveries were at 3,21,38,092 across the country, while act..

NEW DELHI, Aug 30India recorded a single-day rise of 42,909 new Covid-19 infections, taking the total tally of cases to 3.27 crore.While the death toll has climbed to 4,38,210 with 380 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.The active cas..

New Delhi, Aug 28The Centre Saturday asked all States and Union Territories to ensure there is no large gathering during the upcoming festival season and, if necessary, impose local restrictions to check the spread of coronavirus.Extending the ongoing COV..

NEW DELHI, Aug 26India on Thursday reported 46,164 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, the highest in nearly two months. With this, the overall tally of Covid-19 cases in the country has gone up to 32,558,530, according to data updated by the Un..

NEW DELHI, Aug 26The 84-day dose gap for Covishield is being reviewed and may be reduced, Government sources said today.“Reducing the gap between two doses of Covishield is being considered and it will be further discussed in NTAGI (National Technic..

NEW DELHI, Aug 23An expert panel, set up by an institute under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), has predicted a third wave of COVID-19 hitting the country anytime between September and October and suggested significantly ramping up vaccination pace.The..

BENGALURU, Aug 20India's drug regulator today approved Zydus Cadila's three-dose COVID-19 DNA vaccine for emergency use in adults and children aged 12 years and above, bringing in the sixth vaccine authorised for use in the country.The company said it plans to manufacture 100 million to 120 million doses of ZyCoV-D annually and has started to stockpile the vaccine.The generic drugmaker, listed as Cadila Healthcare Ltd, applied for the authorisation of ZyCoV-D on July 1, based on an efficacy rate of ..

NEW DELHI, Aug 20The Centre is fully ready to tackle a possible third wave of COVID-19 and a provision of Rs 23,123 crore has been made for this purpose, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said here on Friday.He said special emphasi..

NEW DELHI, Aug 19Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on August 19 called for maintaining status quo by the North Eastern States on the inter State boundary issue and asked them to handle the matter at the local levels.The boundary dispute between several North Ea..

NEW DELHI, Aug 16 India on Monday reported a net decrease of 3,389 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 381,947. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 2.23 per cent (one in 44). The country is tenth among the mos..

New Delhi, Aug 9 With 35,499 more people testing positive for COVID-19, India’s infection tally now stands at 3,19,69,954, while the death toll climbed to 4,28,309 with 447 fresh fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry on Monday.The numbe..

NEW DELHI, Aug 8India reported 39,070 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. A decrease of 5,331 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.The fresh cases have now t..

NEW DELHI, Aug 7 : India has reported 38,628 new Covid-19 cases and 617 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s active caseload to 4,12,153.The Covid recovery rate in India now stands at 97.37%.The country also reported 40,017 recoveries i..

NEW DELHI, Aug 7 India’s apex drug regulator on Saturday approved the single dose Covid vaccine by Janssen, a subsidiary of the US pharma giant Johnson and Johnson, making it the fifth vaccine against coronavirus to receive emergency use authorisati..

NEW DELHI, Jul 28  Peace in India’s North East, home to a dazzling array of ethnic communities and distinct cultures, was shattered when police forces of Assam and Mizoram clashed over a border dispute on Monday. Five policemen from Assam died. The violence shocked the country.North Eastern States have a history of ethnic strife. Internal border disputes go back at least a century. The triggers for them often are disputed claims over land, forest resources, perceived encroachment, ethnic ..

NEW Delhi, Jul 27For the safety and security of women across the Nation and in line with the Union Government’s efforts towards overall betterment of women, the Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani today inaugurated the National Commission for Women’s 24/7 helpline - 7827170170.The helpline aims to provide 24/7 online support to women affected by violence through referral by linking them with appropriate authorities such as police, hospitals, District Legal ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 26China's Zhihui Hou is set to undergo a doping test at the Tokyo Olympics, 2 days after she won the women's 49kg weightlifting gold, setting a new Olympic record of 210kg.It was Zhihui Hou who finished above India's Mirabai Chanu and won t..

New Delhi, Jul 23 : A day after the Income Tax Department conducted searches in several offices of the Dainik Bhaskar group, residences of its promoters, and the office of the Lucknow-based Bharat Samachar news channel, the Editors Guild of India expresse..

NEW DELHI, Jul 22India on Thursday recorded 41,383 new cases and 507 more deaths due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), taking the caseload and death toll to 31,25,7,720 and 418,987 respectively, according to the Union Health Ministry’s update a..

NEW DELHI, Jul 21 : India reported on Wednesday 42,015 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, while daily deaths jumped to 3,998, their highest since June 12, health ministry data showed.The spike in daily deaths have come after Maharashtra carr..

NEW DELHI, Jul 20 Illegal Rohingya migrants pose a threat to National security and there are reports that some of them have indulged in illegal activities, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai's written reply ca..

NEW DELHI, Jul 19 The Delta variant was primarily responsible for the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, accounting for over 80 per cent of new cases, Dr N K Arora, co-chair of Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium said, underlining that the cases may go up if a new, more infectious variant comes.The variant is also around 40-60 percent more transmissible than its predecessor, Alpha variant, and has already spread to more than 80 countries, including the UK, the US and Singapore.The Delta Plus ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 19A senior doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic could explode due to crowding during the festive season."Idea of festivals is to share happiness, not COVID-19. For the next 1-2 ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 18India logged 41,157 new coronavirus cases, which took the infection tally to 3,11,06,065, while the toll climbed to 4,13,609 with 518 more fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.The active cases have dec..

NEW DELHI, Jul 15 Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, in what may be an unprecedented judicial criticism of the way the sedition law is used by the Government to crush liberties, asked why a colonial law used against Mahatma Gandhi and Bal Gangadhar Tilak continued to survive in the law book after 75 years of Independence.“Sedition is a colonial law. It suppresses freedoms. It was used against Mahatma Gandhi, Tilak... Is this law necessary after 75 years of Independence ?” Chief Justice ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 15 (PIB)Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered grievance management application, developed by IIT-Kanpur, in the presence of Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Personnel, Public Grievan..

NEW DELHI, Jul 14India reported 38,792 new Covid-19 cases and 624 deaths in 24 hours on Wednesday, as per the Union Health Ministry's data. The Nation's cumulative Covid case count is now 3.09 crore and the total toll stands at 4,11,408.The country also registered 41,000 recoveries in the same period, taking the current active caseload to 4,29,946 cases.As compared to Tuesday's figures, more than 7,000 additional fresh cases were registered on Wednesday. On Tuesday, India had reported its lowest daily ..

NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI, Jul 13Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged the Chief Ministers of eight North Eastern States to ramp up vaccination rates, set up temporary hospitals and form micro containment zones with aggressive cluster testing and tracking to control the COVID-19 situation.Mr Modi addressed the Chief Ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur via video conferencing, as according to the Union Health Ministry, 80% of cases were from ..

New Delhi, Jul 12 Giving rise to fresh worries about the Covid-19 pandemic rearing its head again, the R-factor, which indicates the speed at which the infection is spreading in the country, has risen recently leading to a sluggish pace in the decline of ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 11India reported 41,506 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, slightly lower than yesterday, and added 895 deaths. The daily count of new cases has remained stuck in the 40,000s for more than two weeks now. Kerala continues to be the ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 8India on Thursday recorded 45,892 fresh cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 817 new deaths, according to the Union Health Ministry dashboard. With this, the country's cumulative Covid-19 infection tally went up to 3,07,09,557 a..

New Delhi, Jul 7 Thirty-six new Ministers joined the Government and four high-profile Ministers quit today in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mega Cabinet reboot to offset criticism as the country emerges from a fierce second wave of Covid ahead of key ele..

NEW DELHI, Jul 4 Two more international airports will be added in North Eastern States, at Imphal and Agartala, with the aim of increasing connectivity in the region, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday.Singh, who is the Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region, said the airport at Itanagar will be functional by the end of the year and that a facility is also coming up at Kohima."At present, there is an international airport in Guwahati. We are planning to have airports ..

NEW DELHI, Jul 4India reported 43,071 cases on Sunday with 955 casualties in the last 24 hours till 8 am, as per the Health Ministry data. Cumulatively, India reported 3,05,45,433 of which active caseload was 4,85,350, recovered cases were 2,96,58,078 and..