New Delhi: Global pharma major Pfizer Thursday said it remains committed to engaging with the Indian government to explore opportunities to make Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine available in the country. The UK Wednesday became the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 with the UK regulator...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered 434 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,20,017. Out of the 434 new cases, 249 were reported from quarantine centres while 185 are local contacts. District wise breakdown: https://twitter.com/IPR_Odisha/status/1334366554390028288 The total number of active cases in...
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload went past 95 lakh, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 89.73 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 94.11 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Wednesday said that 660 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 660 persons, 56 are from Mayurbhanj, 55 from Angul, 54 from Khordha, 46 from Sundargarh, 42 from Bolangir, 39 from Jagatsinghpur,...
New Delhi: IndiGo said Wednesday it has reached 70 per cent of its pre-COVID capacity. The airline company said it is operating 1,000 daily international and domestic flights. India resumed domestic passenger flights May 25 after a gap of two months due to the coronavirus-triggered...
Kolkata: West Bengal Urban development Minister Firhad Hakim became the first volunteer to take a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine,0 ‘Covaxin’, in the Phase III trial here Wednesday. The Phase-III regulatory trials of Covaxin is being conducted at the city-based ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and...
New York: Britain became Wednesday the first Western country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine. In the process Britain jumped ahead of the United States and Europe. This came after its regulator cleared a shot developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use in record time...
London: The United Kingdom (UK) became Wednesday the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19. The United Kingdom thus paved the way for mass vaccinations against the deadly novel coronavirus. British regulator the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has cleared the...
New Delhi: GST collections posted growth for the third month in a row in November over the previous year collections. The GST collections portray signs that the economy continues to grow after a strict lockdown. Collections of tax on the sale of goods and rendering...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered Tuesday a total of 669 new COVID-19 recoveries taking the total number of recovered cases in the state to 3,12,734. All the recovered COVID-19 patients have been discharged from their respective treatment facilities spread across Odisha. Among the districts that reported recoveries...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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