White House press secretary Jen Psaki also announced Tuesday that the federal government was increasing supply of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines to states next week to 15.2 million doses per week, up from 14.5 million previously

In January, the then President Donald Trump had extended the ban on issuing of new H-1B visas till March 31 arguing that the country is having a very high unemployment rate and the US cannot afford to have more foreign workers

The lawsuit from Charlotte Newman, a business development head at Amazon Web Services who is Black, said the company suffers from a \"systemic pattern of insurmountable discrimination\"

The world's singular focus right now should be to keep transmission of COVID-19 as low as possible, said Dr. Michael Ryan, director of WHO's emergencies program

The Union Minister was vaccinated at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram by a team of doctors led by Dr Naresh Trehan, according to reports.

The IMA also requested the Centre to provide COVID-19 vaccination free of cost to healthcare workers and people of the nation. The Union Health Ministry had developed Co-WIN to monitor real-time COVID-19 vaccine delivery

While its hospitals in Ludhiana and Mohali have got permission to vaccinate 100 and 200 persons, respectively, in a day, its Shalimar Bagh hospital in Delhi has received 1,000 doses for the first week

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Bharat Biotech tweeted on PM Modi's commitment to build an Aatmanirbhar Bharat; Prime Minister shared an image of himself getting vaccinated on Twitter

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The House Rules Committee turned back scores of Republican attempts to modify the package and sent it to the House floor for passage late Friday or early Saturday

Sectorally, all the other indices ended with major losses. PSU Bank, private and financial indices declined around 4-5% today

Assembly Elections 2021 Full Schedule Live Updates: Polling will happen in eight phases in West Bengal starting March 27, Assam in three phases beginning March 27, and Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Kerala in single phase on April 6

Stock Market News Updates Today: Sectorally, all the other indices were trading with major losses. PSU Bank, private and financial indices declined around 4-5% today

NSE's India VIX, a gauge of the market's expectation of volatility over the near term, fell 5.2 per cent to 22.89. Meanwhile, BSE's market capitalisation stood at Rs 206 lakh crore in today's session

India has vaccinated more than 10.5 million health and front-line workers since beginning its immunisation campaign on January 16

Stock Market News Updates Today: Sectorally, all the other indices were trading with decent gains. Metal index was up 2.5%, while private, PSU Bank and financial indices rose 1.5% to 2% today

A three-judge bench headed by Justices AM Khanwilkar, Indu Malhotra, and Ajay Rastogi dismissed a petition filed by the UPSC candidates seeking a second chance to give the civil service examination in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and age bar

Stock Market Updates Today: Sectorally, except for IT and pharma index, all the other indices ended with decent gains. Private, PSU Bank and financial indices closed 3% higher today.

Sectorally, gains in FMCG, realty, auto, IT, media and metal index were capped by losses in PSU Banking, financial, private banking and pharma index