The number of new coronavirus infections jumped by another 52,050 in the country, which took the nationwide tally to over 1.85 million. This is the sixth consecutive day that Covid-19 cases have increased by more than 50,000 in the country. On Monday, India also recorded the highest single-day testing by conducting over 6.6 lakh tests […]
The Central government may extend the October 31 deadline to avail the Rs 3 lakh crore emergency working loan facility for small enterprises and individual professionals to help them tide over the crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, two officials said. The government has already extended its scope by enhancing eligibility criteria to include larger […]
India’s apex drug regulatory body has granted approvals to Serum Institute of India to conduct late-stage human trials for the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine candidate in India. The development comes after an expert committee on Friday recommended that SII be allowed to conduct these trials after it studied a revised proposal submitted by the Pune-headquartered firm. Now that the chief […]
THE fifth round of talks between the Commander of XIV Corps Lt General Harinder Singh and his Chinese counterpart Major General Liu Lin, Commander of the South Xinjiang Military Region, began on Sunday to try and find a resolution to the stalemate at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The meeting — continuing until […]
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (August 2) tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus infection and has been admitted to a hospital. Shah took to social media today to inform about his infection. Zee news
New Delhi:India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 17-lakh mark on Sunday, just two days after it went past 16 lakh, with 54,735 cases being reported in a day, while the recoveries crossed the 11-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases surged to 17,50,723, while the death toll due to the […]
Indian and Chinese military commanders will hold a fresh round of negotiations on Sunday to finalise modalities for taking forward the disengagement process on friction points like Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, government sources said. The meeting is scheduled to start at 11 AM at a designated meeting point in Moldo on the Chinese side of the Line […]
India recorded more than 50,000 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, for the second day in a row, pushing its infection tally to more than 1.63 million, according to the Union health ministry data. According to health ministry data, India has added 1,053,377 cases since July 1—702,689 have been […]
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday indicated that he will seek a confidence vote when the assembly convenes next fortnight and claimed that the money offered to the MLAs to switch sides had increased sharply ahead of the session. “The floor test will happen; we are going to the assembly. The BAC decides this,” […]
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has said it has had “good data so far” on its vaccine for Covid-19, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford, which is already in large-scale human trials. There are no approved vaccines for the illness caused by Sar-Cov-2 but AstraZeneca’s vaccine is being widely considered the leading candidate after results […]