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Johnson was scheduled to attend the Republic Day celebrations in India as Chief Guest, but the visit had to be cancelled due to the growing health crisis in the UK after a new variant of coronavirus emerged there.

Shihabudeen, 39, a resident of Chennai, was arrested following his arrival at Chennai International Airport from Qatar, an NIA spokesperson said.

Top Serbian politicians urged greater international acceptance of Russia's coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday as they joined the front of their country's queue for shots, days after Moscow delivered the first consignment.

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Under this MoC, a Joint Working Group will be set up to follow up on its implementation. The MoC would enhance people-to -people contacts, foster mobility of workers and skilled professionals from India to Japan.

Four contract workers at the Steel Authority of India Limited's Rourkela steel plant in eastern India died on  

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, while informing the bench that talks are going on between the government and farmers in a healthy atmosphere, said that these matters should not be listed for hearing on January 8.

Vandana, a 23-year-old from Surat, Gujarat, sent the picture of the rangoli to the prime minister and was elated to get a reply. She got a lot of inspiration from it, her brother Kishanbhai Patel said.

Minutes of meetings to approve the Covid-19 vaccine show that the expert panel, set up by the India’s drug regulator, changed its mind in a day.

The SC made the observation while rejecting submissions that it should not have transferred to itself pleas challenging the Central Vista project from various forums as it led to denial of statutory right to approach other courts or panels.

Twenty-four people, most of them attending a funeral, were killed and 17 others injured when the roof of a shelter at the cremation ground in Muradnagar collapsed on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the company is aiming to manufacture 700 million doses of Covaxin in future with four new facilities it is ramping up in south India.

According to the government, the decision was taken as the number of Covid-19 infections was coming down in the state.

Trans fats have a specific chemical structure, that our body finds hard to metabolise and also trans fats have no physiological role to play in our body.

The rare emphasis by these two business chambers on hiking health spend follows close on the heels of some MPs ticking off the government for inadequate health infra. A parliamentary standing committee has already underlined the paucity of hospital beds,...

The government has also directed that prizes or scholarships offered by such firms should not be accepted by educational institutions or students.