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Bhubaneswar: A 17-year-old girl from Surat has been appointed as the Regional Ambassador for India for United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Tunza Eco-Generation scheduled to be conducted this September. According to an ANI report,…

Hyderabad: India's vaccine maker Bharat Biotech is collaborating with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for a novel chimp-adenovirus, single-dose intranasal vaccine for COVID-19. The Hyderabad-based company owns the…

New Delhi: An overnight addition of 83,347 COVID-19 cases took India’s affected tally past 56 lakh to stand at 56,46,010 on Wednesday. Another 1,085 patients succumbed to the infection in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and…

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bollywood actor Ayushmaan Khurana have made it to the Time Magazine's 100 most influential list of 2020. Time 100 is an annual listicle of the 100 most influential people in the world, assembled by…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet the chief ministers of seven states, which are majorly contributing to the country’s COVID-19 caseload on Wednesday. The meeting comes just before the completion of Unlock 4 — the last…

Mumbai: Bollywood singer Udit Narayan dedicated a version of the film Lagaan’s ‘Mitwa’ song to the UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, during a meeting held in Lucknow on Tuesday. The meeting with members of the film fraternity was held to…

New Delhi: In a big relief to sex workers, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre and state governments to immediately provide monetary assistance, food supply and other basic amenities to sex workers, who have been rendered…

New Delhi: Although the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine in India is likely to remain between 50 to 100 per cent, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said they are trying for 100 per cent efficiency, reported IANS. “We are aiming…

New Delhi: A Mumbai Special Court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik Chakraborty till October 6 in the drug nexus case. Rhea is also the prime accused in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case,…

New Delhi: The COVID-19 lockdown has crushed the inflow of gold smuggled into India, the world’s second-biggest consumer. Illegal shipments of gold to India are estimated to have slowed to a trickle of about 2 tons a month, and may total…