Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: The Serum Institute of India became the first indigenous company on Sunday to apply to the Controller General of Drugs of India (DCGI) seeking an emergency use authorization for Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in the country citing unmet medical needs due to the pandemic and in the …
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NEW DELHI: Leaders of 11 parties, including Congress President Sonia Gandhi, DMK head MK Stalin, CPN Patriarch Sharad Pawar, Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav and the Left Front Sitaram Yechury Y D Raja, said on Sunday they would lend their support “wholeheartedly” to December 8 Bharat bandh call for farmers‘Unions …
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NEW DELHI: The government expects two Covid-19 vaccines, Covishield from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Covaxin from Bharat Biotech, to be available in January and about four vaccines by the end of April, increasing prospects for adequate supplies to inoculate a priority of Rs 30 crore. population in July, an official said. While …
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Tribune news service Chandigarh, December 6 Haryana Health and Home Minister Anil Vij said on Sunday that doctors had informed him before giving him the Covaxine injection that he would be given a second dose after 28 days and that he would develop antibodies 14 days after the second dose. …
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Written by Liz Mathew, Krishn Kaushik | New Delhi | Updated: December 7, 2020 7:38:57 am Farmers union leaders at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Saturday. (File photo) It is not a “question of revoking” the three laws farmers protest against But “all other options” are open as the …
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After obtaining clearance for emergency use in the UK and Bahrain, Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorization in India. The UK is preparing for the emergency launches of the Pfizer vaccine and is now in the final planning stages before the vaccination campaign begins on December 14. In …
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New Delhi: The Center’s decision to name the new campus of a biotechnology institute in Kerala after an ideologue from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has sparked protests from the state government and also from its opposition party. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan has urged the Union government to reconsider naming the …
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will start campaigning from January for the implementation of the new citizenship law in West Bengal, which is linked to the ballot box, announced the party’s national secretary general, Kailash Vijayvargiya, and the national vice president. Mukul Roy, at a public meeting in Calcutta on …
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New Delhi: Actor-turned-politician Vijayashanthi has resigned from the Congress party and is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday. Late Sunday night, Vijayashanthi met with Union Interior Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi and earlier had met with MoS Home and BJP leader G Kishan Reddy and …
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Last week, as several installments in this column had pointed out, was going to be crucial for India in terms of how the trajectory of the coronavirus disease would unfold in the country. It was to show if India would also see the festive effect seen in almost every other …
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