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New Delhi: IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been appointed as director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for 2 years. "The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has based on the panel recommended by the Committee. approved the…

Bhubaneswar: Cyclone Yaas is at the doorstep. Here is how you can keep yourself updated on the cyclone’s path and other developments. Follow the map Cyclone Yaas Live Path. It has been created by Esri India, an Indian Geographic…

Bhubaneswar: Cyclones and Odisha go back a long way. The two are somewhat synonymous. Most of the cyclonic formations in the Bay of Bengal make a landfall in Odisha. Before the 1999 Odisha Cyclone that left a trail of destruction behind…

Bhubaneswar: Indian Navy is closely monitoring the movement of the cyclonic storm Yaas. Headquarters, Eastern Naval Command, and Naval Officers-in-Charge at West Bengal and Odisha Area have carried out preparatory activities to combat the…

New Delhi: Cases of black fungus, or mucormycosis, have been rising worryingly over the past few weeks in India. The central government has even asked states to flag it as notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act. Then came the…

New Delhi: A Special Cell team of Delhi Police visited Twitter India offices in Delhi and Gurgaon on Monday evening in connection with the ‘manipulated media’ tag case, ANI reported. The Union government recently took exception to Twitter…

Indian drug firm Panacea Biotec announced the launch of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine production in India on Monday. The first batch of the Russian-developed vaccine produced at Panacea’s Baddi facility in Himachal Pradesh will be shipped…

New Delhi: Now, people in the 18-44 age group who are “without access to internet or smart phones” can walk in for help to register on the CoWIN app and book slots for vaccination against COVID-19. The Centre informed this in a…

New Delhi: Clinical trials of the third booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin started at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, on Monday. The trial will be conducted on 190 participants who had already been administered…

New Delhi: Amid the rising cases of black fungus infection, the first case of yellow fungus has been reported in the country. The patient is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. It is learnt…