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Shops selling non-essential items will be opened on alternate days, and malls will be open based on an odd-even formula from 10 am to 8 pm. (PTI)

Schools, cinemas and gyms shut in Delhi; odd-even for shops, malls

The seating capacity on Metro trains and buses will be reduced by 50 per cent. Auto-rickshaws and taxis can carry up to...

28 Dec 2021 4:20 PM IST

An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir is seen in this undated handout photo released by Merck & Co Inc. (Photo: AP)

As COVID cases rise, govt gives nod to two more vaccines, anti-viral...

With this approval, the number of Covid-19 vaccines which have received emergency use authorisation in the country has...

28 Dec 2021 11:41 AM IST

All children who were born in 2007 or earlier can register themselves for the Covid-19 vaccine on the CoWIN app from January 1, 2022. (Representational image: PTI)

Kids 15-18 to get Covaxin jab; can register on Cowin from January 1

Student ID cards can be used for registration, Booster doses after 39 weeks of second jab

27 Dec 2021 1:09 PM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah. (PTI)

Government forms panel on AFSPA after Nagaland-'s plea to junk law

The decision to constitute the committee was taken at a meeting chaired by Union home minister Amit Shah

27 Dec 2021 12:31 AM IST

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Shobhaa De | 2021 was better than 2020! Will 2022 sizzle & crackle?

Europe shuts down, New Yearâ€™s parties are cancelled across the globe, we in India are less despondent and generally...

25 Dec 2021 2:39 AM IST

Globalisation should mean the timely export of anti-Covid vaccines to countries and could even mean the suspension of patents for these and other medicines from which multinational Western firms make billions of dollars. (AFP file photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | Itâ€™s exploitation, not compassion: Globalisation II...

Global compassion is far behind the global instinct to exploit. Will it ever catch up? Inshallah!

25 Dec 2021 2:27 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI file photo)

Fight against Covid is not over yet, says PM

Modi directed the officials to work with the state authorities on a regular basis

24 Dec 2021 12:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI Pho

PM to hold meeting on COVID-19 situation on Thursday

Omicron strain has set off alarm bells and stoked grim memories of the devastating Covid-19 second wave

23 Dec 2021 1:01 AM IST

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Dilip Cherian | After transfers, Uâ€™khand forest officers unite to...

With Assembly elections looming, the state government cannot afford to have a large section of forest officers feeling...

22 Dec 2021 11:30 PM IST

A worker prepares a bed for Covid patients in Commonwealth Games Village in view of the Omicron cases, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)

Omicron tally crosses 150, as COVID-19 cases surge in Delhi

In Maharashtra, six more persons have tested positive for Omicron, that raised the state-'s tally of such cases to 54

20 Dec 2021 8:28 AM IST

nurse prepares a ward that is set up to treat patients infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant, at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. (PTI Photo)

Omicron cases rise to 113 with 26 new cases

Maharashtra has so far reported the highest number of cases at 40, followed by Delhi with 22 cases

18 Dec 2021 8:38 AM IST

A health worker prepares to inoculates a man with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo: AFP)

â€˜Anti-vaxxersâ€™ a threat to others; live in denial of science,...

There are some religious maniacs who believe that muttering some phrase or charm will save them from Covid-19

18 Dec 2021 12:23 AM IST