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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

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship with its Long March-2F carrier rocket is being transferred to the launching area of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Chinas Gansu province, on Wednesday. (Photo: AP)

Rocket on pad, China ready to send first crew to space station

The three astronauts plan to spend three months on the space station doing spacewalks, construction, maintenance work,...

10 Jun 2021 1:48 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

Posaconazole should be given as salvage therapy in cases who cannot be given Amphotericin B, the guidelines added.

Centre issues guidelines for management of black fungus in children...

Mucormycosis is a serious fungal disease seen in patients with underlying/predisposing factors

10 Jun 2021 12:22 PM IST

A student receives COVID-19 vaccine dose during a special vaccination drive organised by the Karnataka government for the students, who are going abroad for education and employment, in Bengaluru, June 2, 2021. (PTI /Shailendra Bhojak)

India's cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 24-crore mark

The ministry informed that India's daily recoveries continue to outnumber the daily new cases for the 28th consecutive...

10 Jun 2021 12:17 PM IST

A health worker administers Covishield, Serum Institute of Indias version of the AstraZeneca vaccine, during a drive-in vaccination program in Kolkata. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

India reports 94,052 fresh Covid cases, highest single-day death toll...

The active cases in the country have reduced to 11,67,952

10 Jun 2021 10:48 AM IST

Congress leader Jitin Prasada joins BJP in the presence of Union Minister Piyush Goel at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday. Photo: DC Image/D. Kamraj)

Jitin Prasada quits Congress, joins BJP

Prasada is the second leader after Jyotiraditya Scindia to join the saffron fold

10 Jun 2021 9:35 AM IST

The rescue operations are continuing in Malad. (Photo: ANI)

Eleven, including eight children, killed, seven injured in Mumbai...

The incident took place around 11.15 pm on Wednesday at the New Collector Compound on Abdul Hamid Road in the Malwani...

10 Jun 2021 9:29 AM IST

Shilpa Nag, the Mysuru corporation commissioner, reportedly resigned from the IAS after accusing her senior, Rohini Sundari Dasari, deputy commissioner of the district, of interfering in her efforts to manage the pandemic.(ANI)

Dilip Cherian | As Centre-state crossfire builds up, morale sinks

A sarkari house in Delhi, as any government babu will tell you, is all about availability and location

10 Jun 2021 1:24 AM IST

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why monopoly of power is a threat to democracy

In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition

10 Jun 2021 1:03 AM IST

A motorist and a woman wade through a waterlogged street after heavy rains in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful storm to hit the region in more than two decades, packed sustained winds of up to 210 kilometers per hour when it came ashore in Gujarat state late Monday. (AP/Ajit Solanki)

Mumbai marooned by first heavy rain of monsoon

Since the early morning, Mumbai and the surrounding districts witnessed a heavy downpour, causing flooding in several...

9 Jun 2021 11:56 PM IST