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9 pvt hospitals corner 50% doses, raise questions of vaccine equity and access
Sat Jun 05 2021
IN WHAT both reflects and accentuates the problem of vaccine inequity, just nine corporate hospital groups in big cities have...
Karnataka Official Dismisses Harassment Charge After IAS Officer Resigns
Sat Jun 05 2021
A day after the Mysuru city municipal corporation commissioner Shilpa Nag announced her resignation, alleging harassment by the deputy commissioner...
White House defends Dr Fauci over lab leak emails
Fri Jun 04 2021
The White House has defended the president's top coronavirus adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, amid scrutiny of his recently released work...
Kamala Harris calls PM Narendra Modi on US vaccines for India; first set is one day’s dose
Fri Jun 04 2021
Days after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met key officials in the Biden administration in Washington DC, the US announced...
'Mission Choksi' Team Returns As Court Keeps Him In Dominica Till July
Fri Jun 04 2021
The multi-agency team tasked with bringing back Mehul Choksi from Dominica is headed home - without the fugitive jeweller -...
Australian media fined A$1.1m over trial reports
Fri Jun 04 2021
A court has fined 12 Australian media groups a total of A$1.1m (£600,000; $840,000) for their coverage of Cardinal George...
Nearly 3,000 Madhya Pradesh Doctors Resign After Court Says Strike "Illegal"
Fri Jun 04 2021
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday directed the striking junior doctors in the state to resume their duties within...
‘At-risk’ policy change: Govt puts money on new-platform Covid-19 vaccine
Fri Jun 04 2021
The decision to book 30 crore doses of Biological E’s Covid-19 vaccine before it has launched marks a major shift...
Israel opposition parties agree to form new unity government
Thu Jun 03 2021
Israeli opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure as...
More than 2,000 Uttarakhand cops test positive, 90% of them got both doses
Thu Jun 03 2021
More than 2,000 Uttarakhand Police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 in the second wave and 93 per cent of them...
10,000 Olympic Volunteers Quit Ahead Of Tokyo Games: Organisers
Thu Jun 03 2021
Around 10,000 of 80,000 planned Tokyo 2020 Olympic volunteers have quit, organisers have revealed as they battle persistent doubts over...
JBS: FBI says Russia-linked group hacked meat supplier
Thu Jun 03 2021
A Russian cyber-criminal group was behind a ransomware attack that has targeted the world's largest meat processing company, the FBI...
‘Won’t permit experimentation with defective ventilators’: Bombay High Court tells Centre
Thu Jun 03 2021
Stating that it would not permit “experimentation of ventilators”, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday told...
Mehul Choksi Denied Bail By Dominica Court In Illegal Entry Case
Thu Jun 03 2021
A Dominican court court today denied bail to Mehul Choksi - the fugitive diamond trader wanted over the ₹ 13,500...
Covid: China's Sinovac vaccine gets WHO emergency approval
Wed Jun 02 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved China's Sinovac Covid vaccine for emergency use.
No bids, UP extends global tender deadline again
Wed Jun 02 2021
Failing to get a response from vaccine manufacturers, the Uttar Pradesh government has once again extended the last date of...
Caught On Camera, Horrific Assault Of Doctor By Family Of Covid Victim
Wed Jun 02 2021
A doctor at a coronavirus facility in Assam's Hojai, around 140 kilometres from Guwahati, was on Tuesday mercilessly punched, kicked,...
Huawei operating system coming to smartphones in Asia
Wed Jun 02 2021
An update of HarmonyOS, the operating system developed by Huawei, means it will now be installed in a wider range...
New IT Rules Not For Search Engine, Google Tells Court; Centre To Respond
Wed Jun 02 2021
US-based Google LLC has contended that India's new IT rules for online news publishers are not applicable to its search...
"Kids With Covid Mostly Asymptomatic But...": Health Ministry Observations
Wed Jun 02 2021
Cases of Covid in children are being keenly observed, the Union health ministry indicated on Tuesday amid speculation about a...