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Congress lost Ahmed Patel when it needed him most. Always underrated and low-key, he was fiercely loyal to the party and its top leaders, especially Sonia Gandhi, whom he served as a political secretary even before the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime in 2004. Patel was to …

India is preparing to vaccinate at least 250-300 million people, including some 30 million healthcare and frontline workers, against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) by July next year, for which it will seek acquire between 500 and 600 million. vaccine dose. The Center regularly follows up with states to devise measures to …

Mumbai: Hundreds of passengers arriving from Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat Y Go to were seen waiting their turn to undergo a test of coronavirus to Dadar, Central Bombay and other train stations in the early hours of Wednesday. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday ordered its district officials to deploy personnel …

Congress leader Ahmed Patel, a close associate of Sonia Gandhi, died in a Gurgaon hospital on Wednesday morning at the age of 71. The political veteran had been in Medanta Hospital since his health deteriorated after a COVID-19 infection. In a tweet, his son Faisal Patel said that Gujarat MP …

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday requested the Center’s response to a PIL seeking an RT-PCR test cap for Covid-19 at Rs 400 for government and private laboratories and hospitals, saying the cost of the kits was lowered at Rs 200 now. Petitioner Ajay Agrawal told a bank, headed …

Congress leader Ahmed Patel died at 3.30 am. (Archive) Gurugram: Congress leader Ahmed Patel, one of Sonia Gandhi’s closest political advisers and one of the party’s top problem solvers, has died. He was 71 years old. He had been in a Gurgaon hospital since his health worsened after a Covid …

On Monday, Nature released a report showing that we are slowly but surely finding out the origin of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The report deals with two related findings about the virus that came, not from the field, but from the freezer. There have been …

The news reached Sarah Gilbert on Saturday night that the Covid-19 vaccine she developed with AstraZeneca Plc appeared to work. But the Oxford University professor expected a key number: was it more than 90% effective, as others have been, or less? Instead, when his colleague Andrew Pollard called with the …

By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: November 24, 2020 5:27:30 pm The storage of a vaccine depends on the temperature at which it must be kept so that its potency remains intact. There are several vaccines for Covid-19 in the works. As some enter the final stages of …

Non-performing loans in the Indian banking sector are likely to rebound and skyrocket to 11 percent of gross loans in the next 12 to 18 months, S&P Global Ratings said Tuesday. He said the forbearance is “masking” troubled assets for Indian banks emerging from Covid-19 and financial institutions will likely …