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Vaccination drive with Rs 500 subsidy for Jain community launched in...

This vaccination drive, which will continue till June 15, was inaugurated on Thursday by Hyderabad City Police...

11 Jun 2021 10:52 AM IST

A health worker collects a laborers swab sample at a construction site to test for the coronavirus in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

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Daily COVID-19 count in India remains below one lakh

With the fresh cases, the total tally of cases has climbed to 2,92,74,823

11 Jun 2021 10:18 AM IST

$Union Minister for Minorities, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on Saturday demanded \immediate action\ against a UP cop who purportedly asked Muslims to \go to Pakistan\ during a protest. (Photo: File)$ Nation

'Haj committees, Waqf board, others to be roped in to remove COVID jab...

A Mumbai-based NGO and Muslim clerics have joined hands to run an awareness campaign for the slum dwellers in the city

11 Jun 2021 10:10 AM IST

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Builder Shanta Sriram disregards Supreme Court's order on building...

The SC directed the parties to maintain the status quo in a Special Leave Petition filed by the state government on June...

11 Jun 2021 7:51 AM IST

The Supreme Court directed the Centre and the states not to take any action against companies unable to pay full wages. (PTI Photo)

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Supreme Court lets police probe key officials of Mahesh Bank

In spite of several complaints lodged against the key officials of Mahesh Bank, police did not register an FIR against...

11 Jun 2021 7:42 AM IST

The Andhra Pradesh High Court Complex at Amaravati.

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AP High Court directs government to administer COVID-19 jabs at old...

The court asks govt not to insist on ID cards for the inmates as well as prisoners and migrant labourers

11 Jun 2021 7:32 AM IST

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Bombay High Court allows Stan Swamy's extended stay at private...

Swamy, 84, arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was on May 28 shifted from the Taloja prison to Holy Family...

11 Jun 2021 12:53 AM IST

In light of the travel suspension and the current pandemic situation in India, most other routine non-immigrant visa and VAC appointments at U.S. Embassy New Delhi and the consulates in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai remain extremely limited. (DC file photo)

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US student visa appointments to open on Monday

The United States Mission to India will open the July and August student visa appointments at posts across India on June...

11 Jun 2021 12:21 AM IST

Once a doctor prescribes an injection for MucorMycosis, patients attendants are made to run after several officers to get signatures. In the case of uneducated, the less said, the better. (Representational Photo: AFP)

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Tight rules to get black fungus drugs in Andhra Pradesh

Once a doctor prescribes an injection for MucorMycosis, patient's attendants are made to run after several officers to...

11 Jun 2021 12:19 AM IST

When the researchers tested the sera of 20 participants who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine they found that it could act against the engineered coronavirus variants. (Photo:AFP)

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India close to giving indemnity to foreign vaccine makers like Pfizer:...

The government has already met one of Pfizer's other key demands by dropping a requirement that foreign vaccines undergo...

10 Jun 2021 5:55 PM IST

A total of 37 crore tests have been carried out till now, of which 13 crore are in the last 3 months alone, he said (ANI)

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India's total COVID tests surpass US population, says Karnataka Health...

According to Union Health Ministry, the total cumulative tests conducted so far for COVID-19 detection in the country...

10 Jun 2021 2:47 PM IST

Many universities are only accepting the students who have been vaccinated with a WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

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Jharkhand tops in vaccine wastage; Kerala, West Bengal report negative...

While Kerala reported -6.37 per cent vaccine wastage, West Bengal recorded -5.48 per cent

10 Jun 2021 2:37 PM IST