Nitesh Kumar Sahoo

New Delhi: Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, about 200 vaccine candidates are in the works and 10 have been either approved by several countries or are under limited emergency use. As India prepares...

New Delhi: Bird flu has been confirmed in seven states of the country so far, namely Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, while test reports of unsual death of birds...

Mumbai: In glad tidings, 23 Indian crew members aboard the ship ‘MV Jag Anand’ stuck off China for over six months, were allowed to set sail for a port in Japan on Saturday evening, the...

New Delhi: Even as 2020 has been the year of a global crisis caused by Covid-19, the pandemic gave India a new identity as the ‘pharmacy of the world’, President Ram Nath Kovind said on...

New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has strongly objected the new WhatsApp privacy policy through which all kinds of personal data, payment transactions, contacts, location and other vital information of a person...

Sydney/New Delhi: Indian cricketers, especially pacer Mohammed Siraj, endured racist slurs for a second successive day in the third Test against Australia here, causing a brief halt in fourth day’s play, expulsion of some spectators...

New Delhi: The B.Tech degrees and Diploma in Engineering and Technology awarded by IGNOU up to 2011-2012 academic session will be treated as valid, the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has said. The...

Jakarta: Five bags of human body parts and three bags of debris were collected by search and rescue officials on Sunday from the waters off the Indonesian capital of Jakarta where a Sriwijaya Air plane...

Indian skipper Virat Kohli and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma on Monday were blessed with a baby girl. Virat took to Twitter to share the news with everyone. He wrote, “We are thrilled to share with...

Mumbai: Hombale Films finally released KGF Chapter 2 teaser on Thursday night which garnered millions of likes and views within hours of its release.  The overwhelming response to the teaser of KGF Chapter 2 has...

New Delhi: The government on Monday placed a purchase order for 11 million doses of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine- Covishield, with Serum Institute of India (SII), each costing Rs 210, including the GST. Dispatch of the...

Mumbai: Actor-Comedian Sunil Grover has tickled the funny bones of many with his popular character as Guthi in The Kapil Sharma Show. The actor was also liked by the audience for his character, Dr Mashoor...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Monday that the central government will bear the expenses of vaccinating nearly three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first round and suggested that public representatives,...

Panaji: Union Minister of State for Defence Sripad Naik suffered serious injuries, while his wife Vijaya died after they met with an accident in North Karnataka on Monday. As per reports, the car they were...

New Delhi: The Indian Army is ready for a long haul along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) but hopes for an amicable solution in the nine-month-long standoff with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Indian...

New Delhi: Facing intense criticism over its upcoming policy on February 8 as users leave the platform for rivals Telegram and Signal, WhatsApp on Tuesday issued a clarification, saying that individual chats would not be...

Pune: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Tuesday described the dispatch of Covishield vaccines for the January 16 national inoculation drive a “proud and historic” moment. Early Tuesday, the first consignment of...

New Delhi: Days before the commencement of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday that 1.1 crore Covishield and 55 lakh Covaxin vaccines have been procured at a cost of...

New Delhi: Women will be inducted as pilots in the Army Aviation Corps from next year, Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane said on Tuesday. Till now, women are only part of ground duties...

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department on Tuesday issued an orange alert for the northern plains with a forecast of a cold wave for the next four days with temperatures falling. A similar alert has...