The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) on Tuesday recommended Bharat Biotech's intranasal vaccine for conducting phase 1 clinical trials for the coronavirus

Two leading vaccine contenders in India have been granted approval for restricted use in the country. Check out how netizens reacted to the news of the vaccines getting approved

The COVID-19 vaccine in India will be first offered to healthcare workers, frontline workers and persons above 50 years of age. Depending on the disease epidemiology and vaccine's availability, the remaining population will be vaccinated later on

Pfizer's clarification comes as experts believe that storing the vaccine in minus 70 degree Celsius would be a big hurdle

A 40-year-old man who was a volunteer in the third phase of the ''Covidshield'' vaccine trial in Chennai has alleged serious side effects, including a virtual neurological breakdown and impairment of cognitive functions

This SOP would effectively curb the fake invoices menace and ITC frauds while at the same time would ensure proper facilitation of ease of doing business for the genuine entities without any overreach

Officers in the GST department have been directed to follow up personally with these defaulting taxpayers so that their GSTR-3B returns due for October get filed by November 30

These suggestions by GST Law Committee could make GST registration tedious, which would lead to smaller businesses refraining from registering themselves under the indirect tax regime

\"We expect emergency authorisation for Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine to be sought in the UK. If so, it will give an opportunity for India regulator also (to consider such an option),\" says Dr Vinod Paul, chairman of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and R Subhash Reddy issued notice to the I-T department on an appeal filed by Karti, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, against the Madras High Court judgment

DGGI will continue to raid entities involved in the fake invoices rackets; govt is planning to use AI and Aadhaar registration to prepare a list of dubious entities to check GST evasion

Dr Reddy's Laboratories has been given permission to conduct the trails of Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, though, the date and time of the test will be determined by the company

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Addressing the Rajya Sabha over the coronavirus situation in the country, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that India is also making efforts like other nations, adding that \"three vaccine candidates are in different phases\" of clinical trials

Where the UK has resumed the clinical tests of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate following a review by the country's drug regulator and an independent safety review committee, trials paused in India, US, and South Africa are yet to resume

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said that he will be the first person to take COVID-19 vaccine so as to dispel the \"trust deficit\" around the same

\"Once DCGI (Drugs Controller General of India) gives us permission to restart the trials in India, we will resume the trials,\" SII CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Saturday

Delhi Metro resumed its full services on Saturday with the Airport Express Line reopening after a hiatus of over 170 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic; Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) Dr VG Somani has ordered Serum Institute of India (SII) to suspend any new recruitment in Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine candidate till further notice; Millions of coronavirus cases may have gone undetected in India earlier this year, a research paper estimates. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: RBI continues to remain net buyer of US dollar in July, purchases $15.973 billion

Unlock 4.0: Delhi metro to follow pre-COVID schedule, Airport Line reopensDelhi Metro resumed its full services on Saturday with the Airport Express Line reopening after a hiatus of over 170 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All corridors of the Metro network are now in operation and the timing of services will follow the pre-COVID-19 schedule of 6 AM to 11 PM.DCGI orders Serum Institute to suspend recruitment in Oxford COVID-19 vaccine clinical trialsDrug Controller General of India (DCG...

AstraZeneca on Wednesday \"voluntarily\" paused the phase 3 clinical trials after a volunteer developed an \"unexplained\" illness; in India, Serum Institute, one of the partners of University of Oxford, also decided to pause the trials following the DCGI notice