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A medical worker holds a vial of Russias Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19. (AP)

Sputnik vaccine gets nod from Centre's panel

This is the third vaccine approved by the Indian government, and is expected to address the present shortage of vaccines...

13 April 2021 1:42 AM IST

DCA advises the health authorities to use Remdesivir injections strictly based on the requirement. (Photo: AFP)

Rise in Covid cases ups demand for Remdesivir vials in AP

Pharma giants are making efforts to ramp up the production of remdesivir vials as the demand is increasing

13 April 2021 12:05 AM IST

Drug firm Hetero on Sunday said it has received approval from regulator DCGI to launch investigational antiviral drug Remdesivir. (AFP Photo)

Govt prohibits exports of remdesivir till COVID situation improves in...

All domestic manufacturers of remdesivir have been advised to display on their website details of their stockists and...

12 April 2021 1:37 AM IST

The state has 20,954 patients as of Sunday morning and a majority of them were under home isolation. (Photo: DC/Murali Krishna)

AP records steady rise in daily COVID numbers with 3495 cases on...

The state confirmed nine deaths due to Covid and 3,495 new infections for the 24-hour period ending Sunday morning

12 April 2021 12:21 AM IST

As on Friday, only 37.9 per cent of Telangana states frontline workers - from the police, panchayat raj, municipalities, among others have come forward to take the first dose of the vaccine. (Representational Photo: PTI)

PM Modi's Tika Utsav' goes flat in Kurnool with no vaccines

There were just 6,190 doses given on Sunday, before announcing the closure of the drive on the day, as no more vaccines...

11 April 2021 11:55 PM IST

A workers carries out sanitization at New Delhi Railway Station, amid rise in coronavirus cases, in New Delhi. (PTI)

Delhi announces curbs on social, religious, political, cultural,...

Restaurants, bars are allowed up to 50 per cent of their seating capacity

11 April 2021 7:59 AM IST

New lines are being constructed to supply three phase power directly from the 33/11 KV substations near these respective villages. (Representational Photo: AFP)

World Bank funding 3-phase power in 17 villages of AP

The government is for the first time implementing a World Bank-funded Rs. 8.5 crore scheme for supplying three-phase...

11 April 2021 12:58 AM IST

As many as 71 per cent of Indias senior citizens reside in rural areas while 29 per cent live in urban areas almost mirroring the rural urban mix of our population.

Patients turning Covid positive post elective surgeries

Experts say it is better that patients put off their surgeries in case they are not urgent

11 April 2021 12:55 AM IST

The decision was taken as about 25 traders including association president Laxminarayan Rathi reportedly contracted Covid-19 in recent days. (Photo: DC)

Many villagers in self-imposed lockdown to contain Covid threat in...

Shops and vegetable markets are opening only for three hours each in the morning and evening

10 April 2021 11:52 PM IST

KCR is learnt to have taken this decision ostensibly not to bank on any sympathy factor, which failed to work in the Dubbak Assembly by-election last December. (Photo: Twitter @TelanganaCMO)

Despite growth in Telangana revenue, state decides to auction bonds of...

The government ended fiscal 2020-21 with revenue earnings of Rs 52,436 crore, 10 per cent more than Rs 47,657 crore it...

10 April 2021 9:59 AM IST

A health worker takes the body temperature of incoming passengers at a railway terminus following restrictions imposed by the state government amidst rising Covid-19 coronavirus cases Mumbai on April 7, 2021. (Indranil Mukherjee / AFP)

As Covid scene turns worse, private bus operators failing to observe...

The second wave, which could last until the end of May, could see an additional of 25 lakh cases

10 April 2021 9:29 AM IST

Fourteen dengue cases have been reported in private hospitals and the civic body is reluctant to reveal the number of cases in government hospitals (PTI photo)

Hospitals violating Covid norms to lose registration in Andhra Pradesh

Hospitals treating Covid patients without taking permission from government and collecting abnormal fees will have to...

10 April 2021 12:28 AM IST