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Among the target groups to receive the vaccine are those older than 50 years, and this is where the electoral rolls, with their nearly comprehensive data pertaining to individuals names, addresses, and their age will become all-important (Representational Image: AFP)

India to use electoral data for jab

The first phase of the vaccination will cover healthcare, frontline workers, people from the general population who are...

4 Jan 2021 4:03 AM IST

GST collections in July fall 14% due to COVID lockdown. (Photo-ANI)

Government launches crackdown on 7,000 GST evaders, 187 arrested

The government netted a record GST collection of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in December 2020, helped by the action against tax...

3 Jan 2021 9:38 PM IST

India has authorised the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and by local pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech, the countrys drug regulator said Sunday. (Representational Image: PTI)

DCGI approves two Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use

The approval is expected to kick off one of the world's biggest vaccination drives in coming days in the country of 1.3...

3 Jan 2021 11:54 AM IST

A medic demonstrates the administration of COVAXIN, COVID-19 vaccine, on a health worker during a dry run, in Srinagar, Saturday, January 02, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Bharat Biotech recruits 23k volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials

Covaxin has been evaluated in approximately 1,000 subjects in Phase I and Phase II clinical trials

3 Jan 2021 11:50 AM IST

BCCI president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly. (AFP)

Sourav Ganguly stable, decision on further angioplasty soon

He was diagnosed with three blocked coronary arteries on Saturday, following which a stent was inserted in one to remove...

3 Jan 2021 11:34 AM IST

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly. AP Photo

Sourav Ganguly suffers heart attack

Sourav's illness comes amid a speculation of a renewed attempt by the BJP to rope in him as it's chief ministerial...

3 Jan 2021 8:58 AM IST

E-books had certainly existed before the Kindle and other devices for they were an alternate form of publishing and for publishers, certain genres of publishing required the e-book format and now technology became an enabler. (Photo: Facebook screengrab, Representational)

BOOK REVIEW | What are the books we are excited about in 2021?

So many frills, thrills and spills! Reading good literature will help survive this pandemic

3 Jan 2021 4:53 AM IST

Bharat Biotech has submitted data from Phase 1 and 2 trials to the CDSCO and the Drugs Controller General of India (Representational Image: AFP)

Nod for vaccines amid scare over new strains of Covid-19

Subject Expert Committee of the CDSCO granted permission to Bharat Biotech in the clinical trial' mode and with abundant...

3 Jan 2021 4:43 AM IST

Shashi Warrier | Gangsters, gurus and other political spirits

There are four steps with which you deal with opposition: saama, daana, bheda, and danda

3 Jan 2021 4:24 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Is institutional collapse this decade's new story?

The first crisis came with the imposition of internal Emergency on the 25th of June 1975

3 Jan 2021 4:06 AM IST

AIMIM has opened its account in the assemblies of Maharashtra and Bihar and is now eyeing Gujarat, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka (Image:PTI)

AIMIM spreading wings to more states; target coming assembly polls

As a part of expanding the party in other states, the AIMIM is entering into alliances with the parties working for the...

3 Jan 2021 4:03 AM IST

Farmers hold placards as they sit on a tractor blocking a highway in protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. (AP)

Farmers to hold tractor parade towards Delhi on January 26 if demands...

British PM Boris Johnson will be in Delhi on January 26 as the chief guest at the Republic Day parade which will be held...

2 Jan 2021 3:29 PM IST