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Imphal: Secretary Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of, Health and Family Welfare has written to the Chief Secretaries of all States, Union Territories to ensure Covid vaccination of vulnerable groups like destitutes and vagabonds, beggars and nomads.Pointing...

New Delh: After the introduction of two Bills--The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Bill, 2021 and The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021, proceedings of the Lok Sabha were adjourned for...

New Delhi: The Delhi government has passed a resolution against the appointment of former CBI officer Rakesh Asthana as the Delhi Police Commissioner. The resolution has sought a reversal of the appointment from the Union Home Ministry, which controls...

New Delhi: Medical and dental courses in the country will have a 27 reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), 10 per cent for Economically Weaker Sections under the All India Quota Scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, Prime Minister...

New Delhi: India recorded 43,509 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours at a positivity rate of 2.52 per cent, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.According to the Ministry, the active caseload currently stands at 4,03,840...

Kolkata: The existing Covid-19 restrictions and protocol across West Bengal have been extended up to August 15, 2021, according to a state government notification issued on Thursday."After reviewing the current Covid-19 pandemic, the West Bengal State Disaster Management Authority...

New Delhi: Nearly 48 per cent of parents are not willing to send their children to schools till they are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus infection, says a new survey.The survey conducted with over 32,000 parents across 361 districts...

Guwahati: A team of Assam police are going to Delhi to question Mizoram's Rajya Sabha MP K Vanlalvena on what they alleged is a deliberate, unprovoked attack by the Mizoram Police near the border on Monday, the NDTV reported.Six...

New Delhi: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here, where they discussed efforts to deepen the US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.'Secretary Blinken and Prime...

New Delhi:  Rakesh Asthana, the controversial former official of the Central Bureau of Investigation, has been appointed the Commissioner of the Delhi Police, with a year's extension just three days before he was all set to retire on July...