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Health workers administer COVID-19 vaccine doses to shopkeepers at a market in Bhopal, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Vaccines are working against infection, severe disease of COVID-19,...

The research is pre- peer reviewed and has found that 33 health care workers developed infection within two-weeks of...

11 Jun 2021 3:06 PM IST

Highlighting that vaccination of young adults and children is not supported by evidence and would not be cost effective, they said unplanned inoculation can promote mutant strains. (AP)

Unplanned vaccination can promote mutant strains: Health experts to PM...

Vaccinating the vulnerable and those at risk, instead of mass population-wide inoculation including children, should be...

11 Jun 2021 1:45 PM IST

All India Congress Committee (AICC) and Delhi Congress protest against frequent hikes in the prices of petrol and diesel, and demand roll back of the prices at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium Petrol Pump in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Congress leaders hold protest against fuel price hike

Petrol prices have crossed the Rs 100 per litre mark in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana,...

11 Jun 2021 12:54 PM IST

Kulbhushan Jadhav. (PTI Photo)

Pakistan National Assembly passes bill to give right of appeal to...

The ICJ, in its 2019 verdict, had asked Pakistan to provide a proper forum for appeal against the sentence given to...

11 Jun 2021 11:14 AM IST

All Waqf properties will be geo-tagged and digitised. Schools, colleges, hospitals, community centres, common centres and hostels will be built on them, Naqvi said. (Photo: ANI)

'Haj committees, Waqf board, others to be roped in to remove COVID jab...

A Mumbai-based NGO and Muslim clerics have joined hands to run an awareness campaign for the slum dwellers in the city

11 Jun 2021 10:19 AM IST

A health worker collects a laborers swab sample at a construction site to test for the coronavirus in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Daily COVID-19 count in India remains below one lakh

With the fresh cases, the total tally of cases has climbed to 2,92,74,823

11 Jun 2021 10:18 AM IST

Bombay High Court on Friday quashed two government resolutions issued by the Maharashtra government putting curbs on elderly film, TV artistes. (PTI Photo)

Bombay High Court allows Stan Swamy's extended stay at private...

Swamy, 84, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was on May 28 shifted from the Taloja prison to Holy Family...

11 Jun 2021 7:25 AM IST

When the researchers tested the sera of 20 participants who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine they found that it could act against the engineered coronavirus variants. (Photo:AFP)

India close to giving indemnity to foreign vaccine makers like Pfizer:...

The government has already met one of Pfizer's other key demands by dropping a requirement that foreign vaccines undergo...

10 Jun 2021 5:57 PM IST

Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in 2019-20 is 27.1 per cent against 26.3 per cent in 2018-19 and 24.3 per cent in 2014-2015. (Photo: PTI/Representational Image)

Student enrolment up by 11.4 per cent in higher education: AISHE...

As many as 3.38 crore students enrolled in programmes at under-graduate and post-graduate level

10 Jun 2021 4:37 PM IST

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

Jharkhand tops in vaccine wastage; Kerala, West Bengal report negative...

While Kerala reported -6.37 per cent vaccine wastage, West Bengal recorded -5.48 per cent

10 Jun 2021 2:39 PM IST

Relatives and family wait to cremate on the banks of River Ganga, in Unnao, Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Floating bodies in Ganga: Bihar sends water samples for Covid...

On May 17, the Centre had asked Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to prevent the dumping of dead bodies in the Ganga and its...

10 Jun 2021 12:58 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at Circuit House, in Patiala. PTI photo

Right to life also for those without internet, give walk-in vaccines...

The Congress has been batting for vaccines for the poor, especially those living in rural areas, who do not have digital...

10 Jun 2021 12:43 PM IST