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Students appearing from 12th standard exams are tested for body temperature at a Jabalpur school. (PTI)

CBSE panel to submit report on basis for assessment of class 12...

The government on Tuesday cancelled the CBSE class 12 board exams amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic

4 Jun 2021 6:26 PM IST

The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is already approved for use in adults and adolescents aged 16 years and above. (Photo: AP/File)

UK approves Pfizer/BioNTech COVID shot for 12-15 year-olds

Britain's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today announced this decision

4 Jun 2021 6:00 PM IST

A beneficiary receives her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a parking lot in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Govt says will have enough vaccine doses by Aug to vaccinate up to a...

The govt said ramping up of testing as well as containment at the district level 'has worked' in bringing down the cases

4 Jun 2021 5:16 PM IST

Official figures released late on Thursday showed 122 cases across the country for the second time in three days. (Photo: PTI/File)

COVID-19 outbreak builds in Myanmar near Indian border

Medics are concerned that few cases are being detected

4 Jun 2021 3:41 PM IST

Many universities are only accepting the students who have been vaccinated with a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

US students who took India's Covaxin, Russia's Sputnik V, asked to get...

American students have access to the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines

4 Jun 2021 2:46 PM IST

Based on the antibody test results, out of the 634 people who had been previously infected, reinfections occurred in only four residents and 10 members of staff. (Representational image: PTI)

Prior infection cuts COVID-19 infection risk for up to 10 months:...

They found that residents with a previous infection were 85 per cent less likely to be infected during this four-month...

4 Jun 2021 1:38 PM IST

ATF price hiked by 7.5 pc; petrol, diesel rates unchanged for 2nd straight day. (PTI Photo)

Petrol crosses Rs 100/litre mark in Leh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana

Petrol price was increased by 27 paise per litre and diesel by 28 paise a litre

4 Jun 2021 1:36 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the scientific community, saying it is perhaps unprecedented that vaccines were prepared within a year. (Photo: PTI/File)

PM Modi hails Indian scientists for developing vaccine against...

PM Modi reiterated his call for an

4 Jun 2021 1:12 PM IST

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that he is hopeful of completing Air Indias privatization process within 2020. (PTI Photo)

Pre-Covid level normalcy to return next year: Civil Aviation Minister...

In the midst of the COVID-19 second wave, the aviation sector is hit very badly and the passenger load factors have hit...

4 Jun 2021 1:08 PM IST

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das. PTI photo

RBI lowers GDP growth projection to 9.5 pc for 2021-22

The RBI Governor said the RBI will 'continue to think and act out of the box', planning for the worst and hoping for the...

4 Jun 2021 11:55 AM IST

City Police commissioner Anjani Kumar feeds a carrot to a horse as he visits an awareness campaign on coronavirus in Hyderabad. (Photo: PTI)

India records 1.32 lakh new cases of Covid, 2,713 fresh fatalities

The weekly positivity rate has declined to 7.27 per cent

4 Jun 2021 10:28 AM IST