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No HC stay on Maha final year undergraduate medical exams. (PTI Photo)

Karnataka postpones CET exams from July to August due to COVID-19...

Karnataka Education Minister Dr C N Ashwatha Narayana also informed that further applications would be invited online...

12 May 2021 10:42 PM IST

The BMCs Central Purchase Authority is procuring antifungal drug Amphotericin B which is used to treat mucormycosis. (File/PTI)

111 mucormycosis patients undergoing treatment in Mumbai

Most of these patients are from outside Mumbai, according to the BMC

12 May 2021 10:33 PM IST

Population explosion has been a regularly used trope to incite fear and panic in many Third World countries. (Representational Image)

India may overtake China as most populous country sooner than UN...

India is expected to add nearly 273 million people to its population between now and 2050

12 May 2021 10:17 PM IST

The major worry with the new UK variant is that it is 70 percent more transmissible than the existing strains.

Using term 'Indian variant' for B.1.617 strain has no basis: Health...

The WHO also said it does not identify viruses or variants with names of countries they are first reported from

12 May 2021 10:07 PM IST

Nishith Pramanik is an MP of Coochbehar in North Bengal, Jagannath Sarkar is an MP of Ranaghat in Nadia.

2 BJP MLA-elects to remain MPs

The BJP central leadership accepted the 2 MPs' request to retain their Cooch Behar and Ranaghat parliamentary seats and...

12 May 2021 8:17 AM IST

A medic administers the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a woman, at Max Hospital in Saket, New Delhi, Thursday, April 1, 2021. The third phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive for 65 lakh people aged above 45 has begun in the national capital from today. (PTI /Kamal Singh)

States rushing for global vaccine tenders

The officials took the cue from the Uttar Pradesh government, ruled by BJP, which was first among the states to moot...

12 May 2021 8:15 AM IST

BJP president J P Nadda a three-point programme should be started by the state BJPs IT cell. (PTI Photo)

BJP asks Congress to cut Covid criticism

Hitting back over criticism of his party for holding huge poll rallies, Mr Nadda said the Congress too held massive...

12 May 2021 8:12 AM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI Photo)

States blame Centre for shortage of vaccine

Since the 3rd phase of vaccination began amidst a ferocious 2nd wave of Covid-19, India has been facing acute shortage...

12 May 2021 8:11 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a public meeting, in Cooch Behar district. (Photo: PTI)

X-category security given to 77 BJP MLAs

There has been tension between the Centre, governor and Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal ever since she came...

12 May 2021 8:08 AM IST

The man opened a fake account on Facebook and posted objectionable photographs of the woman on it. (Photo: Representational)

Telangana Civic polls claim lives of five teachers

The government teachers, two from Warangal, two from Nalgonda, and one from Khamman passed away after contracting...

12 May 2021 12:16 AM IST

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead at the WHO. (Twitter Screenshot)

WHO classifies B1617 COVID-19 variant, first identified in India, as...

'There is need for more information on the epidemiologic studies that are underway, the studies that are evaluating...

11 May 2021 12:50 PM IST

A health worker collects a nasal sample from a woman for COVID-19 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test, at old Civil Hospital in Gurugram. PTI photo

Telangana closes border with Maharashtra due to Covid

Covid-19 cases increased abnormally in Telangana state, especially the districts of Kamareddy and Nizamabad which border...

11 May 2021 7:57 AM IST