Covid-19 Unlock: Personnel Ministry asks senior officials to report for work
New Delhi: All officers of at the level of Under Secretary and above have been asked to attend offices on all working days while persons with disabilities and pregnant women employees would continue to work from home, a Personnel Ministry order issued on Monday said. As regards government servants of the level below Under Secretaries, […]
About 20.8 pc elders surveyed lost family members, friends: Report
New Delhi: About 20.8 per cent elders have lost either family members or friends due to COVID-19 and most of them believe that a better medical and health infrastructure could have saved these lives, according to a report that surveyed 3,526 elderly people in the country. Marking the “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day”, HelpAge India […]
Clinical trial for Covaxin: Candidates in 6-12 age group to be recruited today
New Delhi:The recruitment for the clinical trial of the country’s first indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, among children in the age group of 6-12 years will begin at the AIIMS here from Tuesday. This will be followed by the clinical trial of children in the age-group of 2-6 years. The enrolment of children volunteers aged 12-18 […]
Covid-19: Novavax says its vaccine demonstrates 90 pc overall efficacy
New Delhi: Novavax Inc, which has a vaccine manufacturing agreement with Serum Institute of India, on Monday said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate was highly effective with 90.4 per cent efficacy overall and also showed high efficacy against predominantly circulating variants. The vaccine candidate ‘NVX-CoV2373’ demonstrated 100 per cent protection against moderate and severe disease, 90.4 […]
Want ‘normal’ neighbourly ties with all countries, including Pak: India
United Nations: India has said it desires normal” neighbourly relations with all countries, including Pakistan, and asserted that the onus is on Islamabad to create a “conducive atmosphere” and not allow its territory to be used for cross-border terrorism against India in any manner. The remarks by Counsellor in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, […]
Aspirational Districts Programme aims to ensure development: PM
New Delhi: India’s Aspirational Districts Programm (ADP) aims to ensure inclusive and all-round development in areas across our nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday and expressed happiness at the United Nations Development Programme highlighting its salient features. The UNDP in its report said that the ADP has served as a catalyst for expediting […]
Govt welcomes suggestions from experts on COVID-19
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday welcomed recommendations by a group of experts that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains and that there is no need to inoculate those who had documented coronavirus infection, saying the suggestions will be deliberated upon. In their latest report which has been submitted to […]
Pak unveils Rs 8.48 trillion budget for new fiscal year
Islamabad: Pakistan government on Friday unveiled a Rs 8,48,700 crore budget for the new fiscal year, including a Rs 1,37,000 crore defence budget which is higher by Rs 8,100 crore than last year’s. Last year the defence budget was Rs 1,28,900 crore. The government set a meagre 4.8 per cent GDP growth target for the […]