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Kolkata: A British actress, who had tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving from the UK, was taken to a private facility after she refused to be treated at a government hospital in Kolkata. Sources said the actress, Banita Sandhu, had…

Delhi: After six persons tested positive for the new COVID strain, The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Tuesday said there could be a short extension of ban on flights from the UK. “Once we have genome sequencing completed and a fuller extent…

New Delhi: Six cases with the mutant strain of coronavirus, which was first reported in the United Kingdom, have been detected in India, the government said on Tuesday. All the six patients recently returned from the UK. According to a…

New Delhi: Even as a Bhubaneswar man and several others in the country have tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from UK, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has said it’s incorrect to say that the new coronavirus strain…

New Delhi: About 20 passengers and crew travelling from Heathrow airport tested COVID-19 positive at five international airports — Delhi, Amritsar, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Chennai. All passengers and crew of Air India flights originating…

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) is likely to allow the emergency use of the Covishield vaccine in India without the necessary approval from the UK where it was developed, according to two senior government officials…

New Delhi: India on Monday banned all flights to and from the United Kingdom (UK) after the discovery of a new and more infectious coronavirus strain spreading in the country. The air travel ban will stay till 23:59 pm on December 31. The…

New Delhi: Ever since the news of the British government approving the COVID-19 vaccine came out, travel agents have been inundated with enquiries from Indians who want to travel to the UK despite being it offseason, as soon as possible to…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court asked the government on Monday to submit a status report within six weeks on the extradition of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed a Bench led by Justice UU Lalit that…

New Delhi: Six months into the pandemic, an analytical study done by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi says that travellers from Dubai and the UK were primary sources of COVID-19 importations into India, The New Indian Express…