Chaudhary Charan Singh, who on Friday was conferred with India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, is popularly known as a champion of farmers.
The number of active cases has reduced to 17,13,413, accounting for 6.02 per cent of the total number of cases.
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In phase I, the vaccine would be tested on 375 volunteers and the maximum of 100 of them would be from AIIMS.
This is the second day in a row that the case positivity rate has remained below 10 per cent, the ministry said. The weekly positivity rate has also declined to 11.45 per cent.
The principal bench of the (CAT) took suo moto cognisance of the behaviour of advocate Mehmood Pracha, while arguing the case of Sanjiv Chaturvedi, an Indian Forest Service officer of Uttarakhand cadre on deputation to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, who filed different applications with regard to recording of his Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs), it said.
Coronavirus doesn't remain active in nasal and oral cavities 12 to 24 hours after the death of an infected person as a result of which the risk of transmission from the deceased is highly unlikely, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Forensic Chief Dr Sudhir Gupta said.
'The values for which he stood for are still a benchmark. He was a prominent leader of the Ram temple movement and did not hesitate to quit office, so that a grand temple for Lord Ram may be built in Ayodhya.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a historic moment for Andhra Pradesh, as he laid the foundation stone of capital Amaravati at the Uddandarayuni Palem on Thursday. More than 10,000 police personnels were deployed for the even in the city.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to the people of Manipur to maintain peace and promised that justice will be ensured to all sections of the society.
'The moment he got to know that any comedian was struggling or had not paid rent for months, he would immediately help because he himself had struggled.'
The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras invites applications for its Ph D/ MS programmes.
Dr Sangeeta N Bhatia, director, Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been chosen to the newest class of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
The government on Monday issued an advisory for rational use of Remdesivir in COVID-19 treatment, underlining that the anti-viral drug must be advised by senior faculty members directly involved in the patient's care.
The officials said the jawan was the youngest to die among the CAPFs. All other fatalities were over 45 years, they said.
Given his tremendous achievement -- only seven Indians and people of Indian-origin have been honoured with a Nobel Prize -- it was no surprise that, even during a year of exceptional achievement by members of the Indian-American community, Dr Ramakrishnan would be named India Abroad Person of the Year 2009.
Hit by a car while cycling, environmental activist Sunita Narain on Monday said cyclists in Indian cities are being edged out systematically to make way for cars.
Modi said his government was committed to provide equal opportunities to all sections of the society.
A 28-year-old man from Uttar Pradesh has claimed that his right hand was chopped off by some locals in Haryana's Panipat where he had gone in search of a job. However, a family has filed a complaint against the man, identified as Ikhlaq from Nanauta in Saharanpur district, that he allegedly sodomised a seven-year-old boy.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has approached about a dozen well-known scientists from across the world in an effort to bring them back to various departments under the ministry, said Jitendra Singh, minister of state (independent charge) for science and technology.
'The Ayush minister (Shripad Yesso Naik) himself was suffering from COVID-19 and got treated in a modern hospital.'
This is the seventh consecutive day that COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 45,000.
Results of an interim study recently published in The Lancet showed that two doses of Covaxin, also known as BBV152, had 77.8 per cent efficacy against symptomatic disease and present no serious safety concerns.
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 but decades ago, he failed to clear the entrance tests for both the IITs and a reputed medical college. At a public lecture at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bengaluru, he recalled his journey from Baroda, where he went to school and college, before moving to Ohio University for his PhD. He shifted to Baroda from Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu when he was three.
"The provisions of the said bill are nothing short of draconian and promote gross incompetence and mockery of professionals currently working day and night and sacrificing their youth for this broken system," said the protesting doctors.
The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that aid received from other countries has been distributed in different states to help deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Zydus Cadila COVID-19 vaccine for children above 12 years is expected to be available by August as its trials are likely to be completed by July-end, said Dr N K Arora, Chairman, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI).
'There is no data to show this virus is more deadlier.'
He said Indians will reflect on Vajpayee's many contributions that led to India's rise as a global and economic power.
Brand India's societal divisions and distortions have remained as much relevant in 'liberal' America and Europe as it still is in the structurally stratified Indian society of the 21st century, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
In a marathon 16-hour-long surgery, doctors at the Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre successfully conducted India's first hand transplant on Tuesday.
Experts say herd immunity is said to have been developed in a population segment if at least 50-60 per cent of those are found to have the presence of antibodies in a sero-prevalence survey.
India's COVID-19 recovery rate rose to 63.13 per cent on Wednesday with a record 28,472 patients recuperating from the disease in 24 hours, while the case fatality rate further dropped to 2.41 per cent, the Union health ministry said.
Syed Ahmad Shakeel and Shahid Yousuf, who are sons of Hizbul Mujahideen chief and one of the most wanted terrorists, Salahuddin, were also dismissed from service for allegedly being involved in terror funding, the officials said.
In the backdrop of alleged involvement of a 'Ranchi module' of Indian Mujahideen in the October 27 serial blasts near a Bharatiya Janata Party rally in Patna, police on Monday recovered nine live bombs matching those found in Patna from a lodge at Hindpiri in Ranchi.
The Andhra CM charged the BJP and Centre with 'mud-slinging' and trying to 'damage his credibility'.
In a relief to thousands of young doctors pursuing higher specialisation courses, the Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that in the interest of students, it has decided to implement changes in the pattern of the NEET-Super Speciality (NEET-SS) examination from the academic year 2022-23.
Jaitley's tenure as defence minister saw clearance of a number of big ticket reform measures and simplification of military acquisition process.
Groundbreaking HIV researcher Dr Suniti Solomon, the first to bring to the world the prevalence of the infection in India in 1986 and one who successfully led research into the treatment of the deadly virus, passed away at her residence in Chennai on Tuesday.
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