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It is expected that the first phase of the vaccination drive for 15-18 years age group will be completed by the end of this month. (ANI)

Health ministry yet to take decision on COVID shots for children aged...

According to the experts, adolescents in the age group of 15-18 years are actively participating in the inoculation...

18 Jan 2022 1:47 PM IST

AAP National convenor Arvind Kejriwal with Bhagwant Mann (ANI)

Bhagwant Mann to be AAP's CM candidate for Punjab Assembly polls

AAP had last week released a phone number asking people to give names of their preferred Chief Ministerial candidate for...

18 Jan 2022 1:30 PM IST

Workers and residents stand near a nuclei test station in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. The first reported case of the omicron variant has prompted stepped-up measures in Beijing, just weeks before it hosts the Winter Olympic Games. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

China media say foreign parcels suspected in new COVID infections

China has repeatedly emphasized the danger of infection from packaging, despite only trace amounts of the virus being...

18 Jan 2022 1:14 PM IST

Enforcement Directorate. (Representational Image)

Illegal sand mining: ED raids multiple locations in Punjab ahead of...

At least 10-12 locations in the state are being covered by the officials of the federal agency

18 Jan 2022 11:58 AM IST

Dr Vibha Kumari Singh (ANI)

Records show Bihar doctor took 5 Covid vaccine shots, probe ordered

Singh claimed that someone else managed to get vaccine shots using her PAN card details, and called for a probe

18 Jan 2022 11:40 AM IST

A medical staff checks the body temperature of an arriving passenger at a railway station during a mandatory Covid-19 coronavirus screening in Mumbai (Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

Active COVID-19 cases in country highest in 230 days

There has been an 8.31 per cent increase in Omicron cases since Monday, the ministry said

18 Jan 2022 10:43 AM IST

The country saw over 90,000 total hospital admissions for children 17 years old and under from August 1, 2020 to January 13, 2022, CDC data showed. (Representational Image/AP)

US sees highest rate of children COVID-19 hospitalizations

The highest hospitalization rates among all children are in those ages newborn to 4 years, who are not yet eligible for...

17 Jan 2022 1:04 PM IST

Pakistani protesters carry portraits of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who is currently serving a prison term in the US, as they stage a demonstration for her release in Lahore. (AFP)

Aafia Siddiqui: Pakistani prisoner at centre of Texas siege

A US-educated Pakistani scientist, she was jailed in 2010 for attacking American soldiers in Afghanistan

17 Jan 2022 12:32 PM IST

Last year, Chinese authorities extended the policy further to allow couples to have three children. (AFP file image)

China's birth rate at record low in 2021: official

Beijing has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy

17 Jan 2022 11:21 AM IST

A member of a Bomb Disposal Squad attempts to defuse an IED bomb found inside a bag at Ghazipur flower market in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

IED recovered in east Delhi part of consignment of explosives smuggled...

Intelligence agencies coordinated with Delhi Police and National Security Guard (NSG) for a detailed report into the...

17 Jan 2022 10:56 AM IST