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Home / India News / Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad tests positive for Covid-19, enters home quarantine Azad is among the party’s 20 star activists for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. India Updated: October 16, 2020 4:19 PM IST Congressional Senior Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad tested positive for the coronavirus …

NEW DELHI: A fractured opposition may work in favor of Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar, but chances are he will face off in the upcoming October-November three-phase elections. Nitish Kumar may eventually emerge victorious. However, the situations are not as favorable as during the 2015 assembly elections. In the last …

“Human challenge” trials of potential COVID-19 vaccines, where volunteers are deliberately infected with the disease, could become a reality after a British biotech company signs a government contract to create and supply strains of the virus . HVIVO, a unit of pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan, is conducting preliminary work …

NEW DELHI: Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi investigated at the Center on Friday the IMF’s projection that the Indian economy will contract by 10.3 percent this year, calling it another “strong achievement” by the government. Gandhi hit the government on Twitter by tagging a graph showing the IMF’s 2020-21 growth projections …

At least three people connected to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign have tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting the campaign to suspend in-person events for vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris until Monday. Biden is not altering his public schedule, his campaign said Thursday, because he had no direct exposure to people …

Already on track to overtake the United States with the world’s newest coronavirus infections, India is bracing for a surge in cases in the coming weeks, as it heads into its main holiday season with an economy free of virus restrictions . Kerala’s recent experience, which was praised for its …

Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday attacked the government of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projection of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) during this fiscal year amid the coronavirus disease. Gandhi’s mockery featured neighboring countries like Pakistan …

The president also appeared to acknowledge that he was in debt and left open the possibility that part of it is owed to a foreign bank. He insisted that he owed no money to Russia or any “sinister people” and suggested that having a debt of 400 million dollars was …

India continues to have one of the lowest deaths per million inhabitants due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) compared to other countries in the world, the Union’s ministry of health and family welfare said on Friday. At least 22 states and Union territories have fewer deaths per million inhabitants than …

Amid rumor to develop a possible Covid-19 vaccine for distribution in India, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday that India is expected to have a COVID-19 vaccine in a few months and that the country should be in the process of delivering it. to people in the next …