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New Delhi: An overnight addition of 52,972 positive cases took India’s COVID-19 tally to 18,03,695 on Monday. Also, 771 people succumbed to the virus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s death toll to 38,135, the Union…

Mumbai: Bihar Director General of Police, Gupteshwar Pandey alleged on Sunday that senior IPS officer from Patna, Vinay Tiwari was “forcibly quarantined” by the civic authorities here. Tiwari was in the city in connection with a probe…

New Delhi: The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has given green signal to Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) to conduct the phase 2 and 3 of clinical human trials of the University of Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccine in…

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has sought three more months to frame the rules of the newly passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). According to sources, the Ministry sought the time at a meeting with a Standing Committee of the…

New Delhi: The government’s fresh guidelines for international passengers travelling into India will come into effect on August 8. This is how travellers can get an exemption from the mandatory seven-days institutional quarantine upon…

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The Home Minister took to Twitter informing about his test results. He took the test after showing symptoms of coronavirus and the report was positive.…

Mumbai: Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has tested negative for COVID-19 and discharged from Nanavati Hospital here. His son and actor Abhishek Bachchan confirmed the news in his Twitter post. ?? my father, thankfully, has tested…

New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has suggested that a Dak Bank (postal bank) be created by merging regional rural banks, among a slew of recommendations to the government. The suggestion comes at a time when a new disinvestment policy is in the…

Hyderabad: In a bid to check everyone's body temperature quickly, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) here has installed a mass fever screening system that can automatically scan temperatures of people passing. UNICEF has funded the…

Lucknow: UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath cancelled his Sunday trip to Ayodhya after a minister in his cabinet succumbed to coronavirus. Kamala Rani Varun, UP’s minister for technical education, tested COVID positive on July 15 and was…