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Vaccination forms an integral component of the five-point strategy of the government of India of containment and management of the pandemic (including Test, Track, Treat and Covid-appropriate Behaviour), the ministry said.

The grants are meant for all the three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions village, block and district, an official statement said.

Now, interested candidates can apply till May 31 by 5 pm. The window to submit fee online will close at the same time.

The competition will be held online, students will have to convert their work into PDFs and submit it digitally.

Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Saturday said it will bear the expenses incurred during the country's Olympic-bound shooting team's upcoming competition-cum-training tour of Croatia.

In an official statement, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said that so far over 17.49 crore vaccine doses have been provided to states/UTs, out of which around 16.7 crore doses have been consumed.

Nethra Kumanan, Vishnu Saravanan, KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar are the four sailors whose training plans in different parts of Europe were approved.

Vardhan also asked the West Bengal chief minister to focus on conducting more tests to detect infections in the state.

With Tokyo Olympics slated to begin on July 28, how is Japan coping up with hosting the mega-event in such dire coronavirus times?

The bench on Friday was told by senior advocate Rahul Mehra, appearing for Delhi government that the national capital has received 86 MT today till 9 am and 16 MT is in transit.

As many as 40 Oxygen Express trains have already completed their journey so far, it said, adding 22 tankers are on the move with more than 400 tonnes of LMO for Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi.

The editorial by People's Democracy editor and CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat also seemed to object to Vijayan being called a "supreme leader" or a "strong man".

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The Railways has readied a fleet of nearly 4,000 isolation coaches with almost 64,000 beds to serve as isolation units.

A bench said the court was not inclined to direct any enquiry proceedings by the CBI at this stage into these allegations.

Asserting that AYUSH 64 was found very useful for treatment in clinical trials, the Ministry said it is ramping up its production so that it becomes available to a large number of people in a short time.