Health

New Delhi, June 2 : Addressing the 149th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on Wednesday, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that all must rise to the occasion to save the powerless and the voiceless, to see …

Srinagar, June 2 : A total of 1,718 new Covid cases, 24 deaths and two cases of black fungus were reported in J (and) K on Wednesday.Officials said that 585 cases and seven deaths were reported from the Jammu division and 1,133 cases and 17 deaths fr…

Gandhinagar, June 2 : The Gujarat government on Wednesday announced that the Board examinations for the class 12 have been cancelled in view of the prevailing situation of coronavirus outbreak, following the central government’s decision to cancel th…

Chandigarh, June 2 : Preparing the state for a possible third wave of the pandemic, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday virtually inaugurated a 50-bed paediatric Covid care ward, set up at CMC Hospital in Ludhiana, as a partnership ini…

Chennai, June 2 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has reiterated his request to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan to hand over the vaccine plant of HLL Biotech Ltd near here to the state government .In a letter to Harsh Vardhan, a copy of whi…

Chennai, June 2 : While the Union government has cancelled the CBSE and the ICSE exams for Class 12, the Tamil Nadu State school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said that the government will decide on the state board exams for class 12 stu…

Chandigarh, June 2 : Ola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Ola, on Wednesday announced to provide free and easy access to oxygen concentrators for home isolation Covid-19 patients in Chandigarh.Under this initiative, caregivers and home-isolation …

Bhopal, June 2 : The Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday announced the cancellation of the class 12 board exams following the footsteps of the Centre which cancelled the CBSE and ICSE exams on Tuesday in view of the ongoing Covid pandemic.Chief Mi…

Mumbai, June 2 : After five small villages in the state independently attained Covid-free status in May, the Maharashtra government has now come up with a unique proposal to inspire more such rural settlements to “chase away the virus”.Rural Developm…

Chennai, June 2 : The Tamil Nadu Department of Prisons and Correctional Services has vaccinated 30 per cent of its convicts lodged in various prisons across the state.The department is to vaccinate all the convicts in the prisons across the state.Jai…