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Indian cricket board to donate 10-Litre 2000 oxygen concentrators

The Indian cricket board BCCI on Monday announced that it will contribute 10-Litre 2000 oxygen concentrators to boost India’s efforts in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic

India attracted highest ever total FDI inflow of US$ 81.72 billion during 2020-21, 10% more than the last year

India has attracted the highest ever total FDI inflow of US$ 81.72 billion during the financial year 2020-21 and it is 10% higher as compared to the last financial year 2019-20 (US$ 74.39 billion)

Government help for transgender persons

As the country is fighting with COVID19, members of the transgender community have been critically affected by the pandemic majorly because of serious disruption of livelihoods

India's COVID-19 death toll crosses 300,000

India recorded yet another spike in deaths due to COVID-19 as 4454 people succumbed to the virus

70 bodies of crew members working at ONGC project site recovered from Arabian Sea

As many as 70 bodies of crew members, who were onboard Papaa-305 construction barge and tug vessel Varaprada working at an ONGC project site, have been recovered from the Arabian Sea, according to a tweet by the Indian Navy

NIA charge sheets 3 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists in Kishtwar conspiracy case

The anti-terror probe agency NIA on Saturday said it has filed a charge sheet in a special Jammu Court against three Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terrorists in connection with their involvement in the Kishtwar conspiracy cas

Srinagar's SKICC hosts maiden open-air conference amid COVID-19 crisis

SKICC, Kashmir’s premier international conference centre,  has set a record of a different kind this time in the middle of the deadly second wave of Covid pandemic by hosting an open-air conference on the jetty of its back lawns overlooking the picturesque Dal Lake in capital Srinagar

Government promises sufficient COVID vaccines for Kashmir

Promising sufficient vaccines for Kashmir, Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh Saturday appealed to the Kashmir leaders to push forward the vaccination drive in Kashmir

Russia to send three million Sputnik V doses to India by May-end

Russia has sent over 200,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine to India, and the number will reach 3 million by May-end, said DB Venkatesh Varma, Indian Ambassador to Russia

India warns of Covid among children

Children also contract coronavirus infection, contradictory to the popular assumptions, though they show only mild symptoms of the disease and the government is trying to ensure that they do not become part of the chain of infection, NITI Aayog Member-Health, Dr VK Paul said today

Indian Air Force airlifts giant oxygen tankers in the fight against COVID-19

Round-the-clock operations for the past one month in airlifting of hundreds of oxygen tankers, oxygen concentrators and cylinders and tonnes of foreign aid has been supported by the air warriors of Air Force Station, Begumpet, controllers of Airport Authority of India (AAI) and employees of Indian Oil Corporation

AstraZeneca-Oxford and Pfizer vaccines provide over 80 pc protection against Covid variant in India

Two doses of AstraZeneca vaccine or Pfizer vaccine can give more than 80 per cent protection from the B1.617.2 variant of coronavirus first found in India, a new study conducted by the UK government has revealed

India conducts highest-ever 2 million tests in past 24 hours, daily positivity rate declines to 12.45 per cent

With more than 2.66 million tests conducted in the last 24 hours, India said it has set a new record for the highest tests conducted in a day

India continues to record high COVID-19 deaths

India continued to record high fatalities due to COVID-19 as the country witnessed 4,194 deaths in the past 24 hours, as per the Ministry of Health released data on Saturday. The total death toll due to the virus now stands at 295,525

DRDO arm develops COVID-19 antibody detection kit, commercial launch soon

The Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a unit under India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an antibody detection-based kit DIPCOVAN for sero-surveillance, a statement from DRDO said