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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday sanctioned the procurement of one lakh portable oxygen concentrators from the PM Cares Fund.The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Mr Modi to discuss the measures needed to...

New Delhi: India and Russia on Wednesday agreed to have a 2+2 dialogue involving their foreign and defence ministers to add further momentum to the strategic partnership between the two countries.Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a conversation with President...

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India Wednesday said that candidates will not be allowed inside vote counting centres on Sunday without a negative Covid report or two vaccine doses. Earlier, the election body had banned any victory celebrations...

Hyderabad: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has conducted a maiden trial of Python-5 Air-to-Air Missle (AAM) on Tuesday.Tejas, India’s indigenous Light Combat Aircraft added the 5th generation Python-5 AAM in its air-to-air weapons capability.Trials were also aimed to...

New Delhi: In view of shortage of tankers for transportation of Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) in the country, the Centre has been importing 20 cryogenic tankers of 10 MT and 20 MT capacity which will be given to states.The Ministry...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court to Tuesday asked the Central government to explain the rationale behind the prices of Covid-19 vaccines as different manufacturers have listed different prices."The Union of India shall clarify in its affidavit the basis and...

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the Delhi government has decided to import 18 oxygen tankers from Bangkok and 21 ready-to-use oxygen plants from France to overcome shortage of oxygen in the national capital.'Delhi government has...

Bengaluru: Hours before the stringent lockdown to contain COVID-19 in Karnataka came into effect on Tuesday, people flocked to railway stations, central bus terminus and waited in serpentine queues at toll plazas on national highways to board vehicles to...

New Delhi: Tibetan temporal head Dalai Lama on Tuesday announced to make a contribution to the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations fund as a token of solidarity with fellow Indians."At this critical time, during this...

New Delhi:  India registered 3,23,144 fresh cases of COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 1,76,36,307, according to the data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday morning.Besides, the country also saw 2771...