India

The Union health ministry said 4,74,629 beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 years received their first dose of Covid vaccine on Tuesday.

Both regular and contractual staffers, working in hospitals, will get up to 200 per person per meal, an order issued by the health department said.

The local administration here came out with a release hours later stating that Yadav and 10 of his supporters had been booked for creating a ruckus at the Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH).

The development indicates that both the Centre and state governments could now be focusing on first completing the inoculation drive for people in priority groups.

The submission of online application forms shall be accepted up to 5 pm while submission of fees up to 11.50 pm.

The revised dates are not yet announced, however, Govind Singh Dotasara in a press briefing said that it is unlikely for the state to hold REET 2021 in June.

The state government is in talks for capping the price of Amphotericin B, the expensive anti-fungal drug used to treat the 'black fungus'.

The National Technology Day marks the anniversary of the underground nuclear tests conducted in Rajasthan's Pokhran in 1998.

Concerned due to the shortage of vaccines, Biocon Executive Chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw sought better transparency from the government regarding their availability.

According to JMI, more than 20 of its employees, including professors and non-teaching staff members, have lost their lives due to the viral disease.

Police held 30-year-old Dinoop from Chakkittappara in Kozhikode for stealing a private bus from Kuttiady.

The government was also working on increasing vaccination centres across Maharashtra, he said after a discussion with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

Swaminathan said that the double mutation strain consists of variants found in Brazil and South Africa and it evades body's immune response.

NEST 2021 exam is scheduled to be held on June 14. The admit card will be released only for successful applicants on May 30.

A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli was hearing a PIL seeking directions to them to declare medicines and medical equipment meant for COVID treatment as essential commodities under the Essential Commodities Act.

Natasha Narwal was arrested in May last year for allegedly being part of a premeditated conspiracy in the northeast Delhi riots in February that year.