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Over 93K Covid cases take India tally across 5/3 million

Continuing with its massive daily spike, India recorded 93,337 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking its overall tally across the 53-lakh mark, data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Saturday

30 COVID vaccine candidates being developed in India: Health Ministry

Nearly 30 Covid vaccine candidates in pre-clinical and clinical stages are under development by pharmaceutical industry and academia in India

What is aiding India's low mortality rate: It's in our genes, say genetic experts

A study conducted by top genetic experts has revealed that Indians should be thankful to their genes for tiding over the Covid pandemic with a relatively lesser mortality rate as compared to the US and European nations

AI-based cameras detect rail travellers with fever, without masks

Technology has come to the rescue of the Indian Railways -- operating 310 passenger, Mail and Express trains as of now across the country -- in detecting passengers with coronavirus-like symptoms, as Artificial Intelligence-based surveillance cameras have so far detected 28 passengers with mild fever before they could get on board

Air India Express ops to Dubai suspended

The Air India Express operations to Dubai has been temporarily suspended for 15 days starting Friday

Make in India: Government enhances approval free limits for FDI in defence

The Indian government has enhanced the FDI limit for defence sector by allowing up to 74 percent capital via automatic route

India has four fully built satellites ready for launch

India has four fully built satellites ready for launch and shipment to the rocket port out of the 12 that were built during 2019-2020, said a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

India past 5.1 million with over 97K new cases, above 1,000 Covid deaths

With a massive single-day spike of 97,894 new cases and 1,132 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 tally on Thursday crossed the 51-lakh mark with total number of cases reaching to 51,18,253

Covid vax to be available by 'start of next year': Health Minister

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that the coronavirus vaccine will be made available in the country by the start of next year

Indian Army at LAC has adequate amount of special clothes, tent, weapons for long haul: Defence Minister

Special warm clothes, special tent for living and adequate arrangement of weapons and ammunition have been made for Indian Army soldiers to cope with the extreme weather conditions at the Line of Actual Control, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh informed the members of Rajya Sabha on Thursday as border tension continued with China

India boosts its maritime capacities with stealth frigates

The construction for the third in a brand new line of stealth frigates for the Indian Navy began earlier this month with the laying of keel ceremony at Mumbai's government-run Mazgaon Dock Limited (MDL)

'ECOSOC win would help India establish itself as lighthouse of the South'

Nishtha Satyam, the youngest Deputy Country Representative for UN Women, while commenting on India's win against China and securing a seat at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has said that "it's a huge win" and would help the country establish itself as the "lighthouse of the South"

India slams OIC, Turkey, Pakistan for raising Kashmir in Geneva

India on Tuesday slammed Turkey and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, while slamming Pakistan for funding cross-border terrorism and ethnic cleansing of its minorities

Tatas win bid for new Indian Parliament building

Tata Projects has won the bid to erect the federal Parliament's new building in place of the colonial-era structure here in the national capital. As per the available information, Tata Projects bid an amount of Rs 861.9 crore

India inked 70 defence contracts in last fiscal

A total of 70 defence contracts were signed during the last financial year, while 16 deals have been inked this fiscal till July, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik said in the Parliament on Wednesday