BENGALURU / CHENNAI: Even as the number of patients who tested positive for the mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2, which originated in Britain, rose to 25 in India on Thursday, according to official sources, several state governments stepped up their push to track the missing UK returnees who landed in India …
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NEW DELHI: Around 96,000 vaccinators have been trained for the Covid vaccination program that the government plans to implement in January once a vaccine is approved. State governments, district officials and municipal commissioners have been asked to set up ground staff, logistics and IT systems to carry out the campaign …
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SRINAGAR: 70-year-old jeweler from Punjab settled in Srinagar for four decades he was shot and killed by motorcycles terrorists in the city’s congested Sarai Bala town on Thursday, months after she obtained a residency certificate and bought a store and home. Claiming responsibility for the murder of Satpal Nischal, whose …
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CALCUTTA: Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the BJP since the Trinamool Congress less than a month ago, is likely to be appointed chairman of the Jute Corporation of India (JCI), under which he will enjoy cabinet minister status. You were provided with Category Z security before you even joined the saffron …
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CHANDIGARH: Haryana prime minister ML Khattar on Thursday he sought to downplay the performance of the BJP-led ruling dispensation in civic polls, saying it was satisfactory “despite strange circumstances.” When asked if the BJP failed to meet expectations in these polls, Khattar said the party has performed satisfactorily “despite strange …
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NEW DELHI: With the only BJP MLA abstaining from voting, the Kerala assembly on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution demanding withdrawal of three agricultural laws. With this, Kerala became the fifth state in the country to pass a resolution in their respective assemblies to oppose agricultural laws. Before Kerala, four …
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NEW DELHI: A day after talks on the new farm laws made some progress, farm unions said Thursday that the Center’s call for them to suggest an alternative to repealing the laws was not feasible. “Unless the laws are removed, there is no room to discuss farmer-friendly changes in mandis …
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NEW DELHI: The drug regulator’s Subject Matter Expert Committee (SEC) on the Covid-19 vaccine sought more time to analyze updated data submitted by the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech for emergency use authorization (USA ) for their respective SARS vaccine candidates. CoV2. The committee will meet again on …
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NEW DELHI: While 2019 would be remembered for the victory of the NDA led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha elections, 2020 would be remembered as the year the BJP made significant progress in polls conducted for agencies. locals across the country. . Furthermore, while the BJP …
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NEW DELHI: Britain on Wednesday became the first country to grant an Emergency Use Authorization (USA) to the Covid-19 vaccine from the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca. The move paves the way for a cheap and easy-to-store injection that much of the world will depend on to help end the pandemic. Today …
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