Health

Bengaluru, June 22 : A committee headed by cardiologist Devi Prasad Shetty, which submitted its interim report to Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurapa on Tuesday, has recommended reopening of schools and colleges in a staggered manner.The 13-mem…

Chandigarh, June 22 : Taking the lead in Covid vaccination, Haryana Police on Tuesday said 90 per cent of the force got vaccinated for the first dose and 65 per cent for the second dose.The vaccination drive for police personnel started on February 4…

Shillong/Agartala, June 22 : Eight oxygen generation plants are being installed in the three northeast states — Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura — with the help of the Japanese government and UNDP, officials said on Tuesday.United Nations Developmen…

New Delhi, June 22 : The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that there cannot be any uniform assessment policy for all board examinations, which includes those of the CBSE, the ICSE and 32 state boards.Attorney General K.K.Venugopal, representi…

Gandhinagar, June 22 : The Gujarat government has announced that it will urge the high court to allow reduction in fine for not wearing mask in public places, from the present Rs 1,000 to Rs 500.It was on the suggestion by the court last year, that t…

New Delhi, June 22 : The second wave of Covid worsened ‘shecession’ as twice as many working women in India are worried about availability of jobs, time for job-seeking compared to working men, according to the LinkedIn Workforce Confidence Index rep…

Panaji, June 22 : Goa’s high literacy rate may have helped in the fast rate of vaccination in the state, chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday, adding that nearly 20,000 persons are being vaccinated in the state every day.”We are trying to ach…

Hyderabad, June 22 : Leading Telugu filmmaker D. Suresh Babu has been cheated by a man, who collected Rs 1 lakh from him for promising to arrange Covid-19 vaccination for employees of his production house.The producer, who is actor Rana’s father, thr…

New Delhi, June 22 : NITI Aayog member Dr V. K. Paul on Tuesday said thwarting the third wave of Covid-19 pandemic is in the hands of the people as “it can be stopped if Covid appropriate behaviour is followed, and majority of the people get vaccinat…

New Delhi, June 22 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Covid death numbers could be five to six times higher in India, but the focus should be on vaccination, as the second wave was bad, the third wave could be worse.Rahul Gandhi,…