Friday, 4 June 2021

India's Vaccine Inequity Worsens As Villages Fall Behind

Urban Indians are getting COVID-19 shots much faster than the hundreds of millions of people living in the countryside, government data shows, reflecting rising inequity in the nation's immunisation...

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NII Receives Trademark For India's First Indigenous Tumor Antigen SPAG9

The SPAG9 antigen developed by the National Institute of Immunology (NII) has received the ASPAGNIITM trademark, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) said on Friday.

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Facebook Suspends Donald Trump's Account For 2 Years

Facebook Inc on Friday suspended former US President Donald Trump from its platform until at least January 2023 in a decision that has been watched closely for signals on how the company will treat...

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Heroin Worth Rs 70 Crore Seized In Chennai; 2 African Women Arrested

One of the woman was using a wheelchair despite appearing to be fit physically, leading to suspicion.

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CBSE Sets Up Panel To Decide Assessment Criteria Of Class 12 Students

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday constituted a 13-member committee to work out an objective criteria for assessment of class 12 students after their board exams were cancelled...

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Twitter Suspended In Nigeria Days After It Removed President's Tweet

Nigeria announced on Friday it was suspending Twitter operations in the country, saying the platform was being used for activities "capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence."

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PM Modi To Address World Environment Day Event On June 5

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address an event on World Environment Day on Saturday via video-conferencing. The Prime Minister's Office said he'll also release "Report of the Expert Committee on...

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Yamuna Body Gets Rs 3,725 Crore Loan From SBI To Develop Airport In Jewar

The Yamuna International Airport Private Limited (YIAPL) has secured a loan of Rs 3,725 crore from the State Bank of India for the development of Noida international airport at Jewar in Uttar Pradesh,...

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"We Have No Disagreements With Them, They Have": Putin On US-Russia Ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he is hoping to improve deeply damaged relations with the United States when he holds his first summit with US counterpart Joe Biden later this month.

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PM Reviews Covid Vaccination Drive, Says Wastage Numbers Still High

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the wastage figures of Covid vaccines continue to be on the higher side and asked authorities to take steps to tackle this issue.

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5 Still Trapped In Meghalaya Mine As Rise In Water Level Hits Rescue Work

The water level inside a coal mine where five miners remain trapped in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district has risen by about 1 metre from the previously recorded depth due to heavy rainfall,...

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UN Experts Call For Probe Into Indigenous Graves In Canada School

UN rights experts on Friday urged Ottawa and the Vatican to hold swift and thorough investigations into the discovery of unmarked graves at an indigenous religious school in western Canada.

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सचिन की बेटी सारा तेंदुलकर का दिखा खूबसूरत अंदाज, मुंबई में मास्क पहने आईं नजर, देखिए तस्वीरें

महान बल्लेबाज सचिन तेंदुलकर की बेटी सारा तेंडुलकर (Sara Tendulkar) किसी बॉलीवुड सेलिब्रिटी से कम नहीं हैं. सारा शुक्रवार को मुंबई के बांद्रा में एक क्लिनिक के बाहर नजर आईं. उनकी तस्वीरें देखते ही देखते सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल हो गईं.

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Data Sharing Going On With WHO To Give Recognition To Covaxin: Centre

Data sharing is going on with WHO to give recognition to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, the government said, noting that it wants to achieve this "milestone" as soon as possible.

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Delhi Reports Over 500 New Covid Cases, 50 Deaths In 24 Hours

Delhi recorded 523 fresh COVID-19 cases and 50 fatalities on Friday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.68 per cent, according to data shared by the health department in Delhi.

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Climate Disasters, Conflicts Displaced 39 Lakh Indians In 2020: Report

As many as 39 lakh people in India were displaced in 2020 due to climate disasters and conflicts, making it the fourth worst-hit country in the world to have such a high number of internal...

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Tripura Man Strikes Gold With Cultivation Of Kashmir's Famed "Ber Apple"

Meet 32-year Bikramjit Chakma, who wants to cover the tropical hills of the northeastern state of Tripura with Kashmir's famed "ber apples".

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No Decision Yet On Indemnity To Foreign Or Indian Vaccine Makers: Centre

No decision on granting indemnity to any foreign or Indian Covid vaccine-manufactures has been taken yet, the government said Friday, underlining these decisions are to be taken "in the interest of...

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Serum Institute Gets Preliminary Approval To Make Sputnik V Vaccine

Adar Poonawalla's Serum Institute of India has got permission from the country's drugs regulator to make Sputnik V, the Russian COVID-19 vaccine.

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A Plot Twist In COVID-19 Origin And The Indian Link To It: 10 Points

Dismissed as little more than a conspiracy theory for over a year, the hypothesis that COVID-19 originated from a lab in China and not from a wet market in Wuhan has gained considerable traction over...

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Trinamool Meet To Plan Counter To BJP's "Vendetta Politics", Say Leaders

The first organisational meeting of Trinamool Congress, since its landslide victory in the recently concluded assembly elections, is likely to take up strategies to counter "vendetta politics by BJPs...

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"Not On Track Yet": WHO Warns Of COVAX's Global Vaccine Shortfall

The World Health Organization said Friday a shortfall in Covid-19 vaccine doses going through the Covax programme in June and July could undermine the efficiency of the roll-out.

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पाकिस्तान में आजम खान के सेलेक्शन पर 'घमासान', पिता की सिफारिश से मिला मौका?

आजम खान (Azam Khan) को इंग्लैंड और वेस्टइंडीज दौरे के लिए पाकिस्तानी टी20 टीम (Pakistan Cricket Team) में जगह मिली है. आजम खान पाकिस्तान के पूर्व विकेटकीपर मोइन खान के बेटे हैं.

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"Release Them": Relatives Of Gaza Hostages Break Into Israeli Parliament Panel

A group of relatives of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza rushed into a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Mo...