Health

New Delhi, May 27 : The Chhattisgarh government has said that over 10,000 villages in the state are completely Covid free as the virus has either not been able to reach there or those infected have already recovered.At present there is not a single C…

Mumbai, May 27 : The Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has donated 34 ventilators worth Rs 4 crore to the Maharashtra government for use by Covid-19 patients in the current pandemic second wave, an official said here on Thursday.These include ventilators …

Mandi, May 27 : A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi) have elucidated the part of structure of a key protein in the Covid-19 virus, which helps in understanding its mode of action, its role in the spread and …

New Delhi, May 27 : The manufacturing of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine will start soon in India as the country has accomplished technology-transfer to Indian companies, said Dr Vinod K.Paul, chair of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Adminis…

Lucknow, May 27 : The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has directed its cadres to distribute masks, sanitisers, and immunity boosters across rural Uttar Pradesh on Sunday to mark the completion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s seven years in power.The pa…

New Delhi, May 27 : The Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed duty free import of Amphotericin B, used for treating black fungus patients, on furnishing of a bond by the importers, till the final decision by Centre on waiving customs duty.A bench comp…

Varanasi (UP), May 27 : The Varanasi administration has asked the government as well as private Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) to begin efforts at a war-footing to prepare a batch of at least 100 skilled technicians who can handle advanced med…

Chennai, May 27 : The Tamil Nadu government has proposed to take on lease HLL Biotech Ltd’s integrated vaccine complex (IVC) near Chennai without past liabilities to run it with a private party.In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tamil Nadu …

New Delhi, May 27 : Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday slammed the Narendra Modi-led Central government over the Covid vaccine shortage in the country, wondering why India is facing a shortage despite being one of the leadin…

Hyderabad, May 27 : India will produce 259 crore doses of various Covid-19 vaccines by the end of 2021, Union Minister of State for Home G.Kishan Reddy said on Thursday.He claimed that the Centre is making all efforts to ramp up vaccine production in…