New Delhi, January 5 (PTI): Culling of chickens and ducks began on Tuesday in parts of Kerala to contain the H5N8 strain of bird flu, while Jammu and Kashmir sounded an alert and started collecting samples from
Thiruvananthapuram, January 5 (IANS): An alert has been sounded after six UK returnees to the state after December 14 tested positive for the new coronavirus strain, including two each in Kozhikode and Alappuzh
Srinagar, January 5 (IANS): Heavy snowfall on Tuesday snapped air and surface links with the Kashmir Valley for the rest of country forcing authorities to order rationing of essentials commodities to evade any
New Delhi, January 5 (PTI): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to express his regret over not being able to visit India as planned for Republic Day on January
New Delhi, January 5 (PTI): Emphasising the need to build guidelines and if necessary, "red lines" for the Info-Pacific region, outgoing United States Ambassador to India Ken Juster said on Tuesday th
New Delhi, January 5 (PTI): The health ministry on Tuesday said it is prepared to roll out COVID-19 vaccine within 10 days from date of emergency use authorisation, which was issued on January 3, but noted that
New Delhi, January 5 (IANS): In a show of solidarity after some bitter comments, Adar Poonawala and Krishna Ella, jointly on behalf of Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech, on Tuesday communicated their combined
New Delhi, January 5 (PTI): India recorded 16,375 new cases of coronavirus, the lowest in over six months, taking the country's COVID-19 caseload to 1,03,56,844, according to the Union health ministry data
New Delhi, January 5 (PTI): The year 2020 was the eight warmest since 1901 but it was "substantially lower" than the highest warming observed in 2016, the India Meteorological Department said on Monda
New Delhi, January 4 (IANS): The talks between the farmers unions and the government ended without any breakthrough on Monday. After the meeting, the government issued a statement in which it mentioned that the
New Delhi, January 4 (PTI): A total of 38 people have tested positive for the new United Kingdom variant of SARS-CoV-2 in India so far, the Union health ministry said on Monday. &nb
New Delhi, January 4 (PTI): Coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford will cost $3-4 per shot (Rs 219-290) to the government and will be priced at double that rate in private mar
New January 4 (IANS): The crucial seventh round of talks between the government and 41 farmers representatives ended without any breakthrough and the next round of talks is expected on January 8, sources said.
New Delhi, January 4 (IANS): After the latest decision to approve the vaccine by AstraZeneca and Oxford University as well as by Bharat Biotech for emergency use in India to immunise people against the COVID-19
New Delhi, January 4 (IANS): India on Monday recorded 16,504 fresh cases, while 214 more people succumbed to the virus in 24 hours, pushing the overall tally to 1,03,40,469 and toll to 1,49,649 since the outbre
Shimla, January 4 (IANS): With the toll of migratory waterbirds rising to over 1,800, and almost half of them being endangered bar-headed goose visiting the Pong wetlands, the Himachal Pradesh wildlife authorit
New Delhi, January 4 (IANS): Nine more Covid patients have been detected carrying the new and highly infectious strain of novel coronavirus from the UK, taking the total number of such cases to 38 in the countr
New Delhi, January 4 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the world's biggest inoculation drive against coronavirus is set to begin in the country, a day after the drugs regulator approve
New Delhi, January 4 (PTI): India has enough stockpile of the COVID-19 vaccine for inoculation of priority groups, including healthcare workers and frontline workers, in the first phase, Niti Aayog member V K P
New Delhi, January 4 (PTI):"The seventh round of talks between protesting farmer unions and three central ministers got underway in New Delhi on Monday afternoon to break the over-a-month-long deadlock on