In the Budget Session of the Parliament today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Assaduddin Owaisi to accept the Z security cover. On Friday, a day after shots were fired at his vehicle in western UP, Owaisi in his address at the Lok...
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New Delhi: India reported 1,27,952 new Covid cases today, 14% lower than yesterday. The positivity rate fell to 7.9%.The active cases constitute 3.16 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 95.64 per cent. Since December, the number of Covid cases has been rising...
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The toll had hit 800,000 dead in mid-December, just a month and a half ago. New cases linked to the Omicron variant are falling, but daily deaths are still rising, with an average of 2,400 now, according to government figures. The US death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic surpassed...
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The world’s first human challenge trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease was found to be safe in healthy young adults, one of the companies running the study said on Wednesday. The data supports the safety of this model which could...
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GATE Plea in SC LIVE Updates: The Supreme Court has refused to postpone GATE 2022. The exam is scheduled to begin from February 5. “Interfering in the exam process just 48 hours before it commences could result in chaos and uncertainty,” said SC. How do we play with the careers of...
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Bengaluru: Night curfew will be withdrawn in Karnataka from Monday and schools and colleges in Bengaluru will reopen as well, the state government said today, with hospitalisation due to Covid now less than 2 per cent and the recovery rate going up. “From Monday, all classes will be operational...
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Beijing: A type of coronavirus, NeoCov, that spreads among bats in South Africa may pose a threat to humans in future if it mutates further, according to a study by Chinese researchers. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study recently posted on the preprint repository BioRxiv, shows that NeoCov is closely related...
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While NeoCoV has only been known to spread among animals, a new unpeered study claims that the virus could infect humans.
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According to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare sources, the capping of prices of the two vaccines was discussed at a recent meeting. An official, who was present at the meeting but did not wish to be identified, told ET, “The government is buying the vaccines in bulk at...
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Iqra Hassan has filed her nominations from kairana as an Independent candidate. The nomination comes after Samajwadi Party candidate for Kairana, Nahid Hasan, was arrested a day after he filed his nomination papers. Iqra Hasan is the sister of Nahid, a two-time MLA from Kairana. “I filed the nominations...
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