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NEW DELHI: The Monsoon session of Parliament It is likely to shrink and end by the middle of next week in view of the threat of the spread of Covid-19 among MPs, sources said on Saturday. At a meeting of the Lok Sabha business advisory committee, which has leaders from …

File photo of the House of Parliament. The parties present at the meeting (Shiv Sena, Congress, DMK, Trinamool Congress, YSR Congress and TDP) asked Lok Sabha chairman OP Birla to consider reducing the session taking into account the growing number of coronavirus cases. . CNN-News18 New Delhi Last update: September …

NEW DELHI: A large number of coronavirus cases in the country point to “community spread,” Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday, adding that only the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) or the Center you can comment on this. “When such large numbers of people are infected in …

The country’s schools are set to open their doors to students starting Monday, after a gap of more than five months. Under Unlocking 4, the central government has allowed states to reopen schools as of September 21. However, states have the authority to decide whether they want to resume schools …

New Delhi: The parliament session that started this week is likely to be interrupted after 30 MPs were found infected with the coronavirus, two senior parliament officials said, as the number of cases in the country rose to 5.3 million. The Indian parliament met for the first time in six …

Deaths in India have been relatively low and it has a mortality rate of 1.62%. On Friday, the Health Ministry said 1,174 people died of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total deaths from the disease to 84,372. The new coronavirus has killed at least 946,727 people since …

At least nine senior RSS officials, housed at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters in Mahal, in central Nagpur, tested positive for coronavirus. All of the infected older adult swayamsevaks, most of whom are 60 and older, have been transferred to a private nursing home in the city for treatment. According …

The modus operandi, the officer said, differed from place to place and was not a centralized fraud. (Reuters) Findings from a CB-CID investigation into the PM Kisan scheme scam in Tamil Nadu suggest that fraudulent elements, most of them backed by local politicians, also stole money from various other welfare …

Representative Image: Reuters Russia has approved RPharm’s coronavir treatment for outpatients with mild to moderate Covid-19 infections and the antiviral drug could be rolled out in the country’s pharmacies next week. Reuters MOSCOW Last update: September 18, 2020 11:08 PM IST FOLLOW US: Russia has approved R-Pharm’s coronavir treatment for …

If advanced clinical trials of the Covid-19 vaccine are successful, an effective vaccine will likely be available by the end of the first quarter of 2021, State Health Minister Ashwini Choubey informed Lok Sabha on Friday. I was answering a question about when an effective Covid-19 vaccine is likely to …