In a series of 15 tweets — written in response to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi — Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman explained why the Centre levies taxes on COVID vaccines and related drugs and devices
The COVID-19 variant that is currently wreaking havoc in India is much more contagious and is even capable of breaching vaccine protection, warned World Health Organisation’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan on Saturday (May 8).
Mucormycosis is a serious but rare fungal infection. It mainly affects people who have health problems or take medicines that compromise the body’s ability to fight germs and sickness
The Railway police in Tamil Nadu has discovered a unique way to spread awareness about safety measures to prevent COVID-19 in the state by making use of the popular Tamil cult song, Enjoy Enjaami.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is transmitted through respiratory fluids, i.e., very fine droplets emitted during respiration.
Vaccination is turning out to be a headache for the board because if the players choose Covaxin in India, the second dose will
be a problem in the UK, where only Covishield is available.
Earlier on Sunday, Sonowal placed his resignation from the post of CM before Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi. He later proposed Sarma’s name at the meeting. The legislature party then unanimously elected Sarna as CM
As hundreds of people thronged hospitals with Covid-19, oxygen shortage and disruption in supply emerged as a new issue, and doctors had to run after everything, from managing beds to treating patients to ensuring availability of medicines and even the supply of oxygen. And on top of it, dealing with patients' relatives. For some this was too much. Despite the government's measures to address mental health issues, many say they were not prepared for this. And there was little support from the government. Click here for more.
But experts say the public API of the CoWIN App alone is not enough to fully automate the registration process because the government has not released the entire API.
Data paints a grim picture for India — the death toll could be three times of what is being reported by the government, he says. Infections, however, may be peaking now, says Dr Murray
Satchidanandan earned Facebook's rebuke for trying to share a video that mocked Amit Shah and Narendra Modi over the BJP’s loss in the Kerala polls; he had also allegedly sought to share the Lancet's article criticising the Centre for India's COVID crisis
The current lockdown was scheduled to end at 5am on Monday, May 10. It has now been extended till 5am May 17 through an order issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority
The announcment of corporate results, COVID caseload and mortality numbers - especially amid the lockddown - and global economic cues will have a significant influece on the performance of the Sensex and Nifty this week
Newdelhi: The ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the country has delivered a further blow to the Indian economy, with several investors pulling out ₹5,936 crore from the Indian equities in the first week of May.
According to the depositories data, foreign inve...
Reliance Industries was leading the Top 10 most-valued companies list followed by TCS, HDFC Bank, Infosys, Hindustan Unilever, HDFC, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bajaj Finance and State Bank of India
This month’s hikes have erased all the reduction in fuel rates announced during the four revisions between March 24 and April 15. In the past four days, petrol has increased by 87 paisa per litre and diesel by ₹1 in New Delhi
India was on the recovery path after two successive quarters of de-growth last year. The GDP had contracted by a massive 23.9 per cent in the June quarter following the national lockdown and by 7.5 per cent during the September quarter. India thereafter stepped out of recession, with the GDP growing 0.4 per cent in the December quarter
With business dwindling and rentals sliding, truckers have rushed to the government with a package of demands to save their enterprises. This follows the severe blow that road freight business has suffered in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 wav...
Byju's, India’s third largest unicorn, is all set to raise about $150 million from multinational Swiss bank, UBS Group AG, which will scale up the ed-tech pioneer's valuation to about $16.5 billion making it the country’s most valuable start-up.
Vaccination is turning out to be a headache for the board because if the players choose Covaxin in India, the second dose will
be a problem in the UK, where only Covishield is available.
When news of two India internationals representing different franchises – Wriddhiman Saha (Sunrisers Hyderabad) and Amit Mishra (Delhi Capitals) – contracting the virus emerged on Tuesday afternoon, the Board of Control for Cricket in India had little option but to suspend Season 14 of the Indian Premier League indefinitely
The match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), which was supposed to be played on Monday (May 3), has been postponed after two players from KKR -- Varun Chakaravarthy and Sandeep Warrier -- tested positive for COVID-19.
Newdelhi: SunRisers Hyderabad on Saturday removed under-performing David Warner from captaincy and handed over the reins of the team to New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson for the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Under Warner, SRH have lost five of their six games as the Australian hasnt been in the best of form in the ongoing edition.
"SunRisers Hyderabad would like to announce that Kane Williamson will be taking over the captaincy...
If there is one thing that the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, has made clear in his first four months in office, it is that he is not interested in seeking the Nobel...
The vaccine has already been given to millions of people in China, the UAE, Pakistan and Hungary. For the record, it is the first vaccine developed by a non-Western country to get WHO backing.
After paying lip service initially, the US has prepared a comprehensive plan to help India in its hour of need as the second wave of COVID ravages India.
Entering the fourth month of a self-inflicted wound, the brass hats in Myanmar are in a deep bind and have to make one of three choices: listen to sober voices in the international community and loosen the iron grip; go along with words of “wisdom” from like-minded tight fisted pseudo democratic regimes and continue with the nightmare; or pay no attention to any advice from anywhere, lock the country once more and throw the keys away. The last is an option that might seem very tempting in a country where the junta for five decades, starting 1962, did just that much to the detriment of national development and its people.
Pointing out that India has been using immunity boosting methods for ages and that these have become more relevant in times of COVID, the government suggested that people consumer more protein-rich food, good fats, and dark chocolate to keep anxiety at bay
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stresses on increasing the reach of vaccination amid increasing COVID cases, there are concerns of re-infection among vaccinated individuals.
The African swine fever, which has killed millions of pigs across Asia, is re-emerging in the continent, threatening a shortage in meat production and meat protein.
France has moved forward with its first medical marijuana experiment after identifying the companies that will supply products to 3,000 patients for two years, starting in March. Advocates hope the move will lead to the drug's legalisation for medicinal purposes.
The Narendra Modi government has spent over ₹11,300 crore till date to revamp medical infrastructure in the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the biggest share of the amount allocated to states was bagged by the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
On Saturday (May 1), the CBSE issued a ‘marking policy’ directing schools on how to assess and assign marks to students on the criteria spelt out by them in detail. Basically, the Board has given the schools the autonomy and flexibility to assess their own students but has drawn borders within which they have to act to ensure the results are fair and unbiased.
School teachers and staff should be designated as frontline workers and get vaccinated on a priority basis before the next academic year to avoid any disruptions in learning. This is one of the many recommendations made by the Lancet Covid-19 Commission's India Task Force and published in the peer-reviewed medical journal -The Lancet.
More than one lakh students of classes 10 and 12 have actively petitioned the government to either cancel board exams scheduled to be held in May or conduct them in online mode due to the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases. A hashtag "cancelboardexams2021" too had been trending on Twitter for the past two days.
Online registration for admission to Class I in 1,247 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) across the country for the Academic Year 2021 -2022 will commence from April 1, while registrations for Class II and above will be done from April 8 in the offline mode.
