Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi returned from his foreign visit late last night and held election-related meetings to review the party’s strategy in Goa, which is scheduled to vote in assembly polls in February 14. Sources here said Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar and Legislature Party Leader Digambar Kamat have been called to Delhi to […]
Contacts of confirmed Covid cases do not need to get tested unless identified as “high risk” based on age or comorbidities, according to a new government advisory. The ICMR Advisory on Purposive Testing Strategy for Covid-19 said individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travels also do not need to get tested.It said testing can be undertaken either […]
Five to 10 per cent of the active Covid cases this time so far needed hospitalisation but the situation is dynamic and may change rapidly, the Centre said on Monday and asked states to keep a watch on cases under home isolation and in hospitals. During the second surge of Covid infections in the country, […]
More than 9 lakh healthcare and frontline workers, and 60-plus citizens with comorbidities received their third Covid jab on Monday, the Union Health Ministry said, as the country began administering a “precautionary” dose against the infection. The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed 152.78 crore (1,52,78,35,951) with over 82 lakh (82,76,158) doses […]
The NEET-PG counselling will commence from January 12, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Sunday. The Supreme Court on January 7, in an interim order, allowed resumption of medical counselling for NEET-PG admissions for the year 2021-22.It also upheld the validity of 27 per cent OBC and 10 per cent EWS quotas.”As assured by […]
Covid vaccination certificates issued in the five poll-bound states will not have Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photo since the model code of conduct has come into force there, official sources said on Sunday. The Union Health Ministry has applied necessary filters on the Co-WIN platform to exclude Modi’s photo from the vaccine certificate, a source […]
With 552 fresh new Omicron cases detected in the last 24 hrs, India’s tally of this highly transmissible Covid-19 variant has climbed to 3,623, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. Of the total, 1,409 people have recovered so far.As per the Ministry, the variant has spread to 27 States and UTs till date, with […]
India will start administering the precaution dose of Covid vaccine to healthcare and frontline workers, and comorbid people aged 60 and above from Monday in a bid to stymie the coronavirus spread driven by its Omicron variant. Personnel deployed in election duty in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa have also been designated […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Sunday that December 26 starting this year will be observed as “Veer Baal Diwas” as a tribute to the 10th Sikh guru Gobind Singh’s four sons who were executed by the Mughals. Modi’s announcement came on the day of the birth anniversary of the Sikh guru.This is a fitting […]
A newly installed oxygen plant at a hospital in Tihar prison will be made operational in four days while all dispensaries in the three jail complexes of Delhi have been designated as Covid care centres amid a surge in infections, officials said on Sunday.As part of steps taken against the spread of the viral disease […]