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Tokyo: Doctors mistakenly injected an elderly woman in Japan's Aichi prefecture with two shots of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in one day, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.The incident happened on May 13 in a nursing home in the city...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state will start an 'odd-hour management' process in government medical colleges and other hospitals as India fights a deadly second wave of Covid, the NDTV reported.Sarma, who earlier...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, along with a bunch of other Congress leaders, Sunday hit out at the Centre over reports of several people being arrested in Delhi for merely putting up posters critical of the government's handling...

Kochi: An Oxygen Express train carrying 118 metric tonnes of medical oxygen arrived here from Odisha in the wee hours on Sunday, official sources said here."The first #OxygenExpress to Kerala has reached Ernakulam from Kalinganagar with medical Oxygen for...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has seven vacancies, two high courts are functioning without regular chief justices and two high court chief justices are set to retire in the next one and a half months, a government functionary said.He...

Leh: Ladakh's COVID-19 tally mounted to 16,333 with 177 fresh cases while the death toll climbed to 165 as two more people succumbed to the viral disease in the union territory, officials said on Sunday.Of the latest deaths, one...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted the people of Sikkim on its statehood day.The northeastern state joined the Indian union on this day in 1975.In a tweet, Modi said, "Statehood Day greetings to the people of...

Moscow: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply disturbed" by the destruction of a high-rise building in Gaza City and the overall increase in the number of civilian casualties from the rocket attacks, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said."The Secretary-General is...

Washington: SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with yet another batch of Starlink satellites, as well as Tyvak-0130 and Capella Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, the company informs.The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Cape Canaveral...

Berlin: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated that Israel has been exercising its right to protect the population from rocket attacks launched by Hamas, German Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.According to Maas, Israel has the right to...