Private sector willing to support govt in coronavirus vaccine roll-out, says FICCI The private sector is willing to support and augment government's capacity across the value chain of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration, industry body FICCI on Thursday said. The FICCI-EY paper, that was developed in consultation with various stakeholders states that India would need 1.3-1.4 lakh vaccination centres, 1 lakh healthcare professionals and 2.0 lakh support staff/ volunteers to suppo...

In the north region, Karnal and the national capital Delhi have been selected as mini-hub for the delivery of vaccines. In the east and northeast region, Kolkata will be the hub for the vaccines' delivery

The Kerala government declared bird flu as a state-specific disaster and issued high alerts in Kottayam and Alappuzha districts. A total of 1,700 ducks died in the farm situated in the Kottayam district

West Bengal is the number one state in buying the dirtiest coal power in the country with most of the stations supplying electricity to the state having not taken adequate measures to comply with December 2015 sulphur dioxide norms notified by the government

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said that due to western disturbance, widespread snowfall or rainfall will take place in Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand

The re-launch of India-Bangladesh cross-border rail route will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on December 17

To leverage the increase in digitally-savvy customers, Matrimony.com, which operates the online portal Bharat Matrimony, said that it will strengthen its position in North India and also invest to penetrate deeper into South-East Asian markets

The BJP leader also attacked the local Kashmiri parties, accusing them of neglecting the development of higher education institutions and other infrastructure

In terms of COVID management, North East, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Jammu & Kashmir were among top ten performing states, as per SBI report

Senior US diplomat Kurt Campbell, who is also eyeing a senior position in the Biden administration said that Joe Biden will have to make an early decision on Washington's approach vis-a-vis Pyongyang

Bharti Airtel Limited counted 28.99 lakh subscribers, whereas, Reliance Jio stayed behind with 18.64 lakh subscriber additions in the month of August 2020.

Polling was yet to conclude in various states in the West Coast as states in the other parts of the country started counting of votes at the conclusion of their polling late in the evening

Ved Shastri, the priest who performed the 'havan', said Trump has been vocal against Islamic radicals and that is why the world needs to support him for his victory

The Chinese Communist Party is a predator. The US comes in a different way, we come as a friend, Pompeo said in response to a question

The biggest fear of these new agri laws among the respondent farmers (57 per cent) was that they would now be forced to sell their crop produce at a lower price in the open market, while 33 per cent farmers fear the government will end the system of minimum support price (MSP), showed survey

For boosting consumer spending, the government today announced special tax exemption for Central government employees, who get Leave Travel Concessions (LTC) in a block of 4 years leave encashment of 10 days

Nirmala Sitharman announced a Rs 12,000 crore interest-free 50-year loan to states for spending on capital projects in a bid to boost economy

Flipkart customer support on Facebook has been slammed hard after it told a customer in Nagaland that it doesn't deliver outside India. The company realised the mistake and apologised.

This expansion is in line with Amazon India's focus to extend its reach to customers and sellers across every part of the country

Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Jharkhand were placed at the bottom of NSE's State of States Index (SSI) as they laggard in multiple dimensions