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New Delhi, April 18 : The susceptibility to Covid infections appears to be particularly high immediately after vaccination either due to lower immunity or due to unsafe behaviour. Lancet Covid-19 Commission India Task Force made this observation in …

Kolkata, April 18 : With the return of peace in insurgency-affected Assam, the army has started pulling out of areas where normalcy has returned. “Assam has been a hotbed of insurgency over the last few decades.Various parts of the state have been u…

Amaravati, April 18 : Andhra Pradesh has developed user friendly app for Covid-19 vaccination drive from Monday. Officials said the app is developed for online monitoring and capturing of individual vaccination data/information from anywhere in the s…

New Delhi, April 18 : With an unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases in the last few days, the national capital is facing shortage of beds and oxygen as daily positivity rate has jumped to 30 per cent, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said this in a…

New Delhi, April 18 : Recommending priority vaccination of teachers and school staff, a Covid task force has said that a safe opening for the education sector can be done by July.The Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force said in a report, “We s…

New Delhi, April 18 : Lancet Covid-19 Commission India Task Force has not recommended a blanket national or state lockdown, as opposed to localized, phased restrictions or closures. Its report said the experience of the past year has shown that econo…

New Delhi, April 18 : Anybody in the country who is in dire need of some help, be it the requirement for plasma or medicine, can approach Youth Congress President Srinivas B.V., who is ready to help even in the middle of the night.The Youth Congress …

Chennai, April 18 : Anson Thomas (54), a Keralite from Ranni in Pathanamthitta district, was born and brought up in the city of Mumbai, represented Mumbai in the National Hockey tournament, donning the role of the team Goalkeeper and later played for…

New Delhi, April 18 : The second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India is different from the first one in September 2020 as the rate of increase in new cases is significantly higher.The Lancet Covid-19 Commission India Task Force said in a report…

The well known protagonist of police reforms, Prakash Singh, in a recent write-up diagnosed the problem behind an apparent lack of progress in this direction by identifying five points of challenge that had not been tackled so far — the unholy nexus b…