But the numbers have continued to rise in 23 states including Bihar, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
Murmu made and subscribed to the oath of office before President Ram Nath Kovind, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement.
The Consulate General of India, New York in partnership with Times Square Alliance hosted the 7th International Day of Yoga celebrations.
A letter sent out by Delhi government asked all medical directors to provide a written explanation on how the health workers contracted the disease despite wearing protective gear, maintaining safe distancing and taking all precautions.
Lack of clarity on data-sharing persists, public health experts sceptic about the pilot that was run in six Union territories as benchmark for national roll-out
Here's what some states are doing to get a grip on the situation. Ruchika Chitravanshi & Aneesh Phadnis report
The television actress will tie the knot with her beau Vivek Dahiya on July 8.
The study by a group of doctors showed that after two shots of the vaccines, 98 per cent recipients of Covishield showed antibody response, while the same was 80 per cent among Covaxin recipients. Sohini Das and Ruchika Chitravanshi report.
States should ensure a weekly positivity rate of less than 5 per cent, vaccination coverage of at least 70 per cent among the vulnerable section, and community ownership of Covid-appropriate behaviour, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi.
ICMR's serological survey, whose findings will be made public next week, suggests that the rate of contagion may be a lot higher in most-affected cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune.
The Serum Institute of India has stockpiled 40 mn-50 mn doses and is adding more every week. Most of these will come to India.
Between August and September Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman toured the length and breadth of India meeting traders, experts and entrepreneurs to gauge the pulse of the nation, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi.
The company has developed detailed logistical plans and tools to support effective vaccine transport, storage, and temperature monitoring. Sohini Das and Ruchika Chitravanshi report.
'Demand is wonderful. We have crossed 10 million on many days.' 'The Swedish trade commissioner recently said, "You guys are vaccinating the entire Sweden in one day".'
Day 4 of the fashion week saw bold and colourful collections by Nupur Kano, Shashank-Prajwal and Ruchika Sachdeva
Nearly half of all coronavirus patients in the country have been cured, taking the recovery rate to over 48 per cent.
'I have no regrets. I came to Bombay with some intentions, but I just could not do what I actually wanted to do. But this was fine too. I became satisfied too early,' Alok Nath says, of his long and successful innings in the film industry.
410 civil servants in a feedback survey to the Prime Minister's Office said that the curfew should stay till the pandemic is controlled and asked to increase fiscal spending on health infrastructure to around Rs 5-10 trillion.
The ministry of health and family welfare spent Rs 3,948 crore in May this year compared to Rs 7,816 crore in the corresponding month of the previous year. On the other hand, at Rs 12,930 crore, the expenditure had risen almost 200 per cent in April against Rs 4,327 crore in the corresponding month of 2019-20.
'If you approached it with that level of aggression in 100 days, you would have vaccinated more than half of your country.' 'On a mass scale you will be able to eliminate that wave.'
Epidemiologists point out that if there is no second wave, it means that the number of infected has surpassed the uninfected, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi.
The committee has recommended Rs 8,000-10,000, Rs 13,000-15,000, and Rs 15,000-18,000 including PPE costs for isolation beds, and ICUs with or without ventilator, respectively, to all hospitals. Currently, hospitals are charging Rs 24,000-25,000, Rs 34,000-43,000 & Rs 44,000-54,000 (excluding PPE cost).
'Students are taking a keen interest in a hybrid model, where they start classes online and then complete the course on campus.'
'The government should put the whole road map together for the vaccine and decide how industry can support...' 'They should allow the private sector to vaccinate.'
'There is no data to show this virus is more deadlier.'
Here's a look at designs by Atithi Gupta, Nupur Kanoi and Ruchika Sacheva, showcased collectively on Day Five of the LFW.
The company sees many more areas of inorganic growth in the future.
A June 11 survey by cLocalCircles across 299 districts puts overall vaccine hesitancy levels at 18 per cent, with 11 per cent of the respondents saying they were not convinced if the currently available vaccines would protect them against the new strains; and 5 per cent said they do not plan to take the vaccine at all.
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Worldhotels sees significant opportunities in the Asia-Pacific market.
In a move that has shocked the friends of Ruchika Girhotra, the Central Administrative Tribunal has restored the pension of former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, who was convicted of molesting her. A division bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal headed by Justice S D Anand has ordered the restoration of the pension of Rathore, which was stopped by the Centre in June last year. Rathore, 69, was awarded six months' rigorous imprisonment.
Hardly anyone wears a mask and most brush off concerns over a pandemic. It is not just scepticism over the existence of the pandemic. A common refrain across villages is the fear of vaccines, reports Ruchika Chitravanshi.
'We have the technical expertise, and international collaborations. We also have robust real-time data. We are a university of pandemic management. If the ministry neglects the role of NCDC, it is the loss of the country'
'I would go for Bharat Biotech's Covaxin and not Covishield, and that is my personal judgment since at least 11,500 have got at least one dose by now and it has proven to be safe.'
Utsav Sharma, who inflicted grievous wounds on murdered teenager Aarushi's father Rajesh Talwar, was on Wednesday remanded in judicial custody till February 8 by a local court in Ghaziabad.
The two cities finally got their act together by ramping up the testing capacity and implementing stricter quarantine norms.
Vaccine development is a long process to ensure safety and efficacy through different stages and involves regulatory supervision every step of the way. Ruchika Chitravanshi takes you through this carefully drawn journey of vaccine development.
'The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code cleans up non-performing assets and puts companies in capable and credible hands.'
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday sought details from the Haryana government about how disgraced former top police official S P S Rathore was promoted to the rank of director general of police when a complaint of molestation was pending against him.The direction came while hearing a PIL filed by a local advocate seeking a fresh case against Rathore for abetment to teenager Ruchika Girhotra's suicide.
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