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Travellers from Dubai, UK main Covid sources to India: IIT Study

Travellers from Dubai and Britain played a crucial role in spreading Covid-19 in the early phase and were the primary sources of the importations of the disease into India, said a study by the researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT-Mandi)

Pandemic dampens spirits in Agra on World Tourism Day

Amid the growing socio-economic uncertainties and health concerns due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a new tourist season has begun in Agra - the Taj Mahal city - but without the fervour and hopes of a revival of the hospitality industry

Sad state of Yamuna pains green warriors

River lovers and green activists in Agra on Sunday celebrated World Rivers Day, at the Etmauddaula view-point park, by cleaning up a stretch of Yamuna bank and taking out a rally to demand a comprehensive National Rivers Policy along with constitution of a Central Rivers Authority to manage major rivers of India

PM Modi says new agri Bills to help farmers sell produce

Hailing the contribution of Indian farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that they would benefit too from the new agriculture-related Bills once these become laws

250,000 children in care homes across India

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in its fresh data has revealed that more than 2,50,000 children live in child care Institutions across the country of which close to 60,000 alone are in Tamil Nadu

BJP's oldest ally Akali Dal quits ruling alliance over 'black laws'

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD),  the political party of Punjab, Saturday night unanimously decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA alliance because of the Mod government's stubborn refusal to give statutory legislative guarantees to protect the assured marketing of farmers' crops at minimum support price (MSP), thus snapping a three-decade-old alliance with the saffron party

With 88,650 new cases, India's corona tally nears 6 million

In the wake of 88,650 more coronavirus cases and another 1,124 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, India's total tally on Sunday neared the 60-lakh (6 million) mark

Will Indian government have 80,000 crore rupees available over the next one year?

Rs 80,000 crore will be the cost of vaccinating everyone in India with the COVID-19 vaccine whenever it is available

IISc start-up Equine Biotech develops affordable RT-PCR kit

A start-up incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Equine Biotech, has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit for accurate and affordable diagnosis of COVID-19

Lancet cautions India against giving "too much positive spin" to COVID-19

Lancet, the renowned medical journal, has criticised India on the danger of presenting the current situation in India with too positive a spin

S&P affirms India's sovereign ratings at 'BBB-', outlook stable

Global rating agency S&P affirmed India's unsolicited foreign and local currency sovereign ratings with a stable long-term outlook

The 'poison' peddler women will brew nectar now

Women of the Chayanpurva village in Barabanki will no longer peddle 'poison', they will now distribute honey

Campaign about perils of early marriage and pregnancies in Rajasthan

The Zero Teenage Pregnancy (ZTP) campaign, launched at the start of this year, aiming at highlighting the issue in Rajasthan, has created a buzz around the sensitive and important issue of early marriages and pregnancies

Hyderabad adds new landmark as 'hanging bridge' thrown open

Hyderabad added a new landmark on Friday with the opening of "extradosed" cable-stayed bridge across Durgam Cheruvu lake in Hitec City, the information technology hub

PGI Chandigarh starts Oxford Covid vaccine trial

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, has administered the first dose of Oxford Covid-19 vaccine -- Covishield -- to three candidates on Friday, informed PGI Chandigarh Director Prof Jagat Ram