Farm bills passed in Rajya Sabha amid protests by opposition MPs; Tata Consultancy Services sets up 11 COVID-19 isolation centres for staff, dependents; DCGI nod to commercial launch of India's first low-cost COVID-19 test 'FELUDA'. Watch this and more news on News Blast.Also Read: Feluda: Satyajit Ray's iconic character who is now COVID-19 detective

The tech-driven platform that offers Continuous Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes for healthcare professionals, trained over 100,000 healthcare professionals over the last 6 months

Badly hit by the coronavirus lockdown, multiple logistics startups are eagerly waiting for the festive season for demand revival

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it a second wave and stricter lockdown measures have been introduced in areas across the country, with more expected

Farm bills passed in Rajya Sabha amid protests by opposition MPsThe Rajya Sabha has passed the Farmers' and Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, through voice vote amid protest by opposition MPs and farmers' protests across Punjab and Haryana. The bills were passed in the Lok Sabha last week.Tata Consultancy Services sets up 11 COVID-19 isolation centres for staf...

The nine highway projects will cover a length of about 350 km at a cost of Rs 14,258 crore. Additionally, PM Modi will also inaugurate optical fibre internet services that will connect 45,945 villages in Bihar

India has six major domestic carriers, IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir, AirAsia India, Air India and Vistara, which owed to the AAI a total of Rs 2562.04 crore as on August 1 and this was around 10 per cent more than on February 1

Prior to the nationwide lockdown, which resulted in the suspension of scheduled domestic as well as international flights, Vistara was operating over 200 flights to 34 destinations daily

Ravinder Singh, Senior Vice President, YMIS, saidt he market sentiment is estimated to improve by mid-August onwards during festive seasons

The financial assistance was announced first during a virtual meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and provided through a Treasury Bond sale to the State Bank of India, Male which has a tenure of 10 years for repayment

AstraZeneca's trial blueprint says that its goal is to develop a vaccine with 50 per cent effectiveness

Tata CRISPR test meets high-quality benchmarks with 96 per cent sensitivity and 98 per cent specificity (accuracy) for detecting coronavirus; it shows result more quickly than traditional RT-PCR test kits and is less expensive

Top five States with maximum caseload -- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh -- also account for highest recoveries, says govt data

The final clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine by Oxford University and being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) will begin at the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune from Monday

India now accounts for close to 18.83 per cent of total global recoveries, pushing national recovery rate to 79.28 per cent; 90 per cent of new recovered cases are being reported from 16 states/UTs, with Maharashtra, Andhra and Karnataka topping the chart

India coronavirus update: Around 96,000 people recovered in the country in a single day, which remains the highest in the world

PMC Bank scam: ED attaches 3 hotels in Delhi worth Rs 100 croreThe Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached three hotels in Delhi valued at around Rs 100 crore under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002 in connection with the PMC Bank fraud case. The three hotels that have been attached by the agency belong to the Fab Hotels group and are located in Kailash Colony, East of Kailash and Kalkaji areas of the national capital.Parliament passes bill to cut salary of MPs by 30% ...

Russian COVID-19 vaccine, 'Sputnik-V' which has been launched in Russia, may soon become the first official vaccine to be launched in India if clearances are granted. For this, GV Prasad-led Dr Reddy's Laboratories has signed a pact with Russia's sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) to manufacture around 10 crore vaccines in India. Both have been planning to roll out the vaccine in India as early as November. RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev spoke to India Today TV about the plans for the launch of vaccine in India. Watch this exclusive interview to know more.Also Read: Russian coronavirus vaccine: 1 in 7 volunteers report side-effects

Trump again said on Wednesday that a vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, could be ready for distribution ahead of the Nov. 3 election

Russian COVID-19 vaccine: Volunteers would receive a second shot of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine within 21 days of the first shot. The adenovirus-based viral vector vaccine is yet to complete a large-scale clinical trial but has been approved by the Russian government