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State Health Minister K Sudhakar, meanwhile, dismissed as "far from truth" reports that there was hesitation among some sections to take the vaccine.

In a span of 24 hours, 2,23,669 people were vaccinated for COVID-19 across 3,930 sessions taking the cumulative total of people vaccinated to 4,54,049 (across 7,860 sessions conducted so far) in the country, the ministry said.

Ever since the death of her husband in 2016, 33-year-old Savitri works as a toddy tapper and climbs Pheonix palm trees every day to make ends meet for her and her family.

Oil prices climbed on Tuesday as optimism that government stimulus will buoy global economic growth and oil demand trumped concerns that renewed COVID19 pandemic lockdowns globally could cool fuel consumption.

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Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said the vaccination will take place four days a week starting Tuesday (January 19) -- Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday -- at 285 centres in Maharashtra.

While allowing the abortion, the high court also said the doctors would have the discretion to cancel the medical termination of the pregnancy if during the procedure there is any risk to the girl's life.

Digvijaya Singh claimed that he wasn’t aware that which bank account is meant for depositing donations for Ram temple construction, so he tagged a cheque of Rs 1,11,111 in favour of ‘Shri Ram Janmbhumi Teerth Yatra Trust’ with the letter forwarded to the...

The study also found out that by September 2020, an estimated 10 crore Indians were likely to have been infected and in the study cohort; smokers, vegetarians and those with O positive blood group were observed to be associated with lower levels of infect...

The NBA board also demanded that the channel be kept out of the BARC rating system till the probe into the case is complete.

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Agitating farmer unions on Sunday remained firm on holding a tractor rally on the Republic Day and vowed to continue their stir till the agri laws are repealed, even as Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urged them to discuss alternatives to scrapp...

Dasgupta, 55, a diabetic, was rushed to the state-run hospital in central Mumbai from the Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday after his blood sugar levels shot up, a prison official had said, adding that he was put on oxyge...

The Delhi government has allowed all schools outside COVID-19 containment zones to reopen for classes 10 and 12 from January 18 in view of board exams.

The team had planned to have the engines fire for approximately eight minutes, or about the same amount of time it would take to launch future missions to the Moon.

In the memorandum, the undersecretary is alluding to a meeting of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) which was convened by the Secretary Department of Pharmaceuticals and Foreign Secretary, MEA on January 15.