Featured

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that vaccination was the best weapon against COVID-19 and stressed on local containment as the country is in the midst of a third wave driven by the Omicron variant. Modi held a…

Lucknow: UP Minister and OBC leader Dharam Singh Saini on Thursday resigned from the BJP, the third minister to leave the Yogi Adityanath government in three days and less than a month before Assembly polls in the state. Saini was the…

Bhubaneswar: The booster dose of Covaxin has shown to “neutralize” both Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19, Bharat Biotech said in a statement on Wednesday. A booster dose of candidate vaccine generated robust neutralizing antibody…

Bhubaneswar: There is some good news for India, as the travel restrictions come bearing down on the global south, according to Henley Passport Index. The Indian passport occupied 83rd position, gaining seven places from its 90th ranking in…

New Delhi:  The Twitter account of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) was briefly compromised on Wednesday morning. The account, however, was restored after a few minutes, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Information and…

Pune: The third wave of COVID-19 is likely to get over in India by the middle of March, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at IIT Kanpur Manindra Agrawal told the Indian Express. He predicted that the third wave would peak in…

Nee Delhi: Uttar Pradesh will go to poll in 7 phases from February 10 to March 7 while Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Goa will vote on February 14 and Manipur on February 27 and March 3, the Election Commission of India informed on Saturday.…

Mumbai: While several states have rushed to impose night curfew, there is no night curfew in Mumbai, and restaurants, theatres and shopping malls continue to function normally. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corportaion (BMC), the city’s civic…

New Delhi: Certain media reports have suggested that the approval for Covaxin for the 15-18 age group has been given despite WHO not having accorded Emergency Use Listing (EUL) to its use for the age group. The Union Ministry of Health and…

New Delhi: In a major sigh of relief to the NEET qualifiers, the Supreme Court on Friday allowed counselling for both PG and UG courses. The apex court also upheld the existing reservation norms, allowing 27 per cent Other Backward Classes…