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New Delhi: The Centre has placed a new purchase order with the Serum Institute of India (SII) for the supply of 10 crore doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, each costing Rs 157.50, including...

Thrissur/Kannur: Hours after the mother of two minor girls who were found dead in suspicious circumstances in 2017 announced that she would contest against the Kerala Chief Minister at Dharmadam in the April 6 assembly...

Bhubaneswar: Ahead of President Ram Nath Kovind’s two-day visit to Odisha scheduled from March 21, the state government has made RT-PCR test mandatory for officers, employees and students connected with the visit. This was decided...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin on Tuesday announced an ambitious digital partnership that will facilitate research and development of 6G mobile technologies, quantum computing and digital transformation of...

Atlanta: Shootings at two massage parlours in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody in...

New Delhi: India recorded 28,903 new coronavirus infections, the highest so far this year, taking the COVID-19 tally to 1,14,38,734, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll increased to 1,59,044...

Mumbai: Action drama “Satyameva Jayate 2”, starring John Abraham, will now arrive on Eid, a day early on May 13, in cinema halls. The Milap Zaveri-directed film, a sequel to Abraham’s 2018 hit, will now...

New Delhi: Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a high number of daily COVID-19 cases, accounting for 71.10 per cent of the 28,903 new infections, the Union Health Ministry said on...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s COVID-19 caseload on Wednesday mounted to 3,38,405 after 82 more people tested positive for the infection, a health department official said. The new cases were detected in 20 of the state’s 30 districts,...

Washington: Vast amounts of ancient water may have been trapped beneath the surface of Mars, according to a NASA-funded study which challenges the current theory that the Red Planet’s water escaped into space. Evidence found...

New Delhi: A Group Captain of the Indian Air Force was killed in an accident involving a MiG-21 Bison aircraft at an airbase in central India on Wednesday, the IAF said. The accident took place...

Cuttack: The Orissa High Court has directed the state government to enforce a prohibition on fishing activities by trawlers near the mouth of Devi river and along the coast to protect Olive Ridley turtles. Based...

New Delhi: India on Thursday recorded 35,871 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise in over 100 days, which took the infection tally to 1,14,74,605, according to Union health ministry data. Registering an increase for...

United Nations: India is projected to register the greatest increase in the number of deaths among children under 5 in South Asia in 2020 as well as the highest number of maternal deaths as the...

New Delhi: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the vehicle scrapping policy will be a “win-win” policy that will help improve fuel efficiency and reduce pollution. Making a statement regarding the vehicle scrapping policy...

Purulia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for pursuing “appeasement and vote bank politics” which were responsible for infiltration. Addressing an election rally here in the tribal Jangalmahal region...

New York: Pediatricians have reported the first known case of a woman, who was given the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during her pregnancy, giving birth to a baby with antibodies against the novel...

Boston: Coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, may be vulnerable to ultrasound vibrations, within the frequencies used in medical diagnostic imaging, according to a study that used computer simulations. The researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in...

New Delhi: As many as 725 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will be deployed in West Bengal for the conduct of forthcoming assembly elections, CRPF chief Kuldiep Singh said on Thursday. Addressing...

Baripada: After hours of frantic efforts forest and fire brigade teams rescued an elephant calf which fell into a dug-well near Ghasamari reserve forest in Mayurbhanj district on Friday, forest…