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New Delhi, Jan 1 : The 10-member Subject Expert Committee of India’s Central Drug Standard Control Organisation is likely on Friday to approve emergency use authorisation of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, top sources told IANS.The decision will pave…

New Delhi, Jan 1 : The 10-member Subject Expert Committee of India’s Central Drug Standard Control Organisation on Friday approved emergency use authorisation of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine ‘Covishield’.The expert panel had convened a …

New Delhi, Jan 1 : India’s agri exports are set to rake in more than (Dollar) 25 billion in 2021 on the back of healthy demand from Middle East and China.In a conversation with IANS, Trade Promotion Council of India’s Chairman Mohit Singla said grow…

New Delhi, Jan 1 : The crowd is more than usual but the diverse collage can easily be broken in one heartbeat.It’s the New Year’s eve and people from both urban and rural Punjab and Haryana have decided to summon 2021 with the protesting farmers at S…

New Delhi, Dec 31 : President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu greeted fellow citizens on the eve of New Year 2021, suggesting all to move forward unitedly in this difficult time amid the Covid-19 pandemic.In a message, the Presi…

Chennai, Dec 31 : The year 2020 was a challenging year for the Indian atomic sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic.However, it still performed remarkably well attaining a major milestone and also taking steps towards setting up of a medical research re…

Panaji, Dec 31 : Goa’s stunning villas which dot the countryside, may well be emerging as the fancy villains in the coastal state’s tourism story which has been marred in recent times by the Covid-19 pandemic.Increasing demand among tourists travelli…

Chandigarh, Dec 31 : Lashing out at state BJP President Ashwani Sharma for “spreading false propaganda on law and order”, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday said the number of incidents of vandalising mobile towers have come down dras…

Chandigarh, Dec 31 : Haryana’s Hisar town recorded a sub-zero temperature on Thursday that broke the record for the coldest December night in 47 years, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.Hisar recorded a bone-chilling minus 1.2 degrees Ce…

Hyderabad, Dec 31 : Eminent breast cancer surgeon Dr Raghu Ram Pillarisetti is named on the prestigious 2021 new year’s Honours list of Queen Elizabeth II.The list has just been published in the ‘London Gazette’, the official publication of the Crown…