A year after COVID-19 pandemic broke out, India is busy putting in place a system for administering vaccines that will help check the spread. The government kicked off two days vaccination dry run across four states yesterday. The aim was to test the readiness of the system. The dry run exercise included data registration on Co-WIN, an online platform for monitoring vaccine delivery, testing receipt and allocation, deployment of team members and mock drill sessions with test beneficiaries. Watch the video for more details.Also Read: From brink to recovery, India's retail sector pins hope on 2021

In almost a week long suspension, thirty-seven single-trip flights to the UK across carriers of Air India, Vistara, British Airways, and Virgin Atlantic have been cancelled

The growth, however, was mainly driven by India, which accounted for 77 per cent of the total inflows to the subregion and received $51 billion in 2019, up 20 per cent from the previous year

Protesting farmers allege that some portions of the law are believed to be favouring large business groups, particularly Reliance Industries (RIL) and Adani Group. The farmers have been making calls to boycott RIL and Adani Group as a result of this perception

Official sources said around 300 people who returned from the UK, where a new strain of coronavirus has emerged recently, were yet to be traced

Indians may put off travel plans over possibility of flight bans amid new COVID-19 strain Many people may put off their international travel plans due to concerns over the spread of a new variant of coronavirus in some countries and possibility of flight bans by nations like Dubai, France and Singapore, a survey has revealed. The survey, which is based on over 15,000 responses from over 10,000 people from across 204 cities and conducted by online platform LocalCircles, also revealed that as...

The Oxford vaccine, which also has a tie-up with the Serum Institute of India, is expected to win approval in the UK before Thursday, speeding up the provision of the jab to the most vulnerable groups

The survey, which is based on over 15,000 responses from over 10,000 people from across 204 cities and conducted by online platform LocalCircles, also revealed that as many as 42 per cent of the respondents did not have any travel plan for domestic travel at all

The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), which manages government stake sale programmes, had kicked off the privatisation drive inviting preliminary bids for debt-laden Air India in January

Rural urban inflation dynamics in India reveals close co-movement, with episodic divergences driven by different components - food, fuel or ex-food and fuel - which do not persist long, says RBI

While Air India disinvestment is not likley to conclude by March 2021, the BPCL deal, coupled with privatisation of Shipping Corporation and CONCOR can push disinvestment proceeds to close to Rs 80,000 crore this fiscal.

The validity extension applies to all documents, which were supposed to expire on February 1, 2020, and to those which would expire by March 31, 2021

According to Director of Public Health G Srinivasa Rao, 1,216 people have arrived in Telangana from the UK since December 9 and a total of 937 have been identified and tested for Covid-19

A screenshot of a television news bulletin has gone viral on social media, which shows blood splattered around in a decrepit hospital ward

Earlier, due to the global coronavirus outbreak and the resulting lockdown in the country, the West Bengal government had postponed the examinations, which are usually held between February and March every year

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation shared a glimpse of the year 2020 via a tweet that's relatable to all Delhiites and also strikes a nostalgic chord

The online open-source encyclopedia's most-read article summarises the year 2020 in its entirety.

New COVID-19 strain: Of the 1,206 individuals who landed in Mumbai, at least 788 have been quarantined in Mumbai, while the rest have been sent to other states, says BMC official

On Wednesday, December 23, Karnataka had declared that a night curfew will be in effect between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am till January 2

Rajeev Jain focussed on product creation in retail and SME lending at Bajaj Finance, while engaging more with customers using data analytics