The central government has signed a contract with the Serum Institute of India (SII) to supply 11 million doses of Covishield, the Indian variant of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against the novel coronavirus, the Pune-based firm said on Monday. Doses of the vaccine could begin shipping Monday night, said a source …
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As WhatsApp continues to criticize its new privacy policy, the company’s loss of Facebook has turned into a gain for alternative apps like Telegram and Signal. Now, as more and more people leave the messaging platform, Signal dominates social media conversations with internet-breaking memes and jokes. Many users are now …
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Madhavsinh Solanki, a veteran Congress leader and former Indian Foreign Minister who also served as Gujarat’s Chief Minister four times, passed away on Saturday at the age of 93. Solanki, Gujarat’s longest-serving congressional prime minister, was last seen in public about three years ago when he met congressional leaders on …
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Within 24 hours of last week, an expert committee from the national drug regulator changed its decision on whether Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 candidate vaccine could be recommended for approval without evidence of its efficacy in humans, the minutes of the committee meetings held on January 1 and 2 show. The …
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KERALA HAS requested the Center to prioritize the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, considering the high number of cases in the state and to make the most of its strategy of delaying the peak in the containment of the disease. Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja said The Indian Express that the …
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Haryana police fired tear gas canisters on Sunday night to thwart the march of a group of farmers agitating toward Delhi in the Masani bombing in Rewari district. The farmers first broke through the police barricades erected near the village of Bhudla Sangwari and then began to move towards Delhi …
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As 2020 drew to a close, Israel accelerated with its ambitious inoculation campaign, leaving behind several Western nations, including those like the UK that had started the process weeks earlier. But now, Israel’s plans are coming under fire from rights groups who say the inoculation campaign excludes Palestinians in the …
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The Madhya Pradesh government will enact a strict law against stonecutters, which will have a provision to auction off their assets to pay for any damage caused to public property or an individual, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday. The move follows reports of stone-throwing during clashes that …
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BCCI president and former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, who underwent angioplasty after a “mild” heart attack, is stable and his health parameters are normal, doctors said Sunday. He was diagnosed with three blocked coronary arteries on Saturday, after which a stent was inserted into one to remove the …
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A frontline healthcare worker turned a vaccination appointment into a memorable moment by proposing to her boyfriend at a South Dakota hospital recently. Robbie Vargas-Cortes, 31, a paramedic and EMS supervisor, was scheduled to get vaccinated. Knowing that her boyfriend of five years, Eric Vanderlee, was one of the vaccine …
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