ECI direction comes a week after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party complained to the apex election body, saying the BJP and the Prime Minister were indulging in blatant misuse of the official machinery

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Biden administration recently decided to enforce Defence Production Act, which allowed it to boost vaccine production by blocking export of raw material supplies to other countries

Pradhan said at the CERAWeek conference by IHS Markit that India, where fuel demand is recovering to pre-pandemic levels, would like to rely on reasonable and responsible oil prices

IT major Infosys on Wednesday said it will cover the vaccination cost for its employees in India and their family members; Bharat Biotech has announced the Phase 3 clinical trial results for its coronavirus vaccine candidate Covaxin; The COVAX initiative, co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the World Health Organization (WHO), will supply 237 million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to 142 countries by May-end. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Canada receives first shipment of 5 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses from Serum Institute

Government data shows that only 10% of about 12.6 million people immunised in India have taken the COVAXIN shot, which was found to be 81% effective in an interim analysis of the late-stage trial, its developer Bharat Biotech said

Digital media norms to be administered by Centre, not states The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry on Wednesday issued memorandum to states and union territories saying that the new rules for digital news publishers and over-the-top (OTT) platforms are to be administered by the Centre, not the states. The government had notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Codes) Rules, 2021 on February 25. Defence equipment sales to India sho...

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Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said citizens can get vaccinated according to their convenience

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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

The revenue receipts in 2020-21 are expected to fall by more than five per cent due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. On the other hand, overall revenue increase in the next fiscal is estimated at 33 per cent, Jagdish Devda said

India could consume 215.24 million tonnes of refined fuels in the financial year 2021/22 compared to the revised estimate of 195.94 million tonnes consumed in 2020/21, data posted on the website of Petroleum Planning Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed

Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala believes that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a \"true pioneer and entrepreneur\", however, he wasn't sure about his electric vehicle company's valuation; The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday, March 1, said India's economic activity is gaining momentum on COVID-19 vaccination roll out and decrease in infections, but private investment is missing; A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country's immunisation campaign, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma told Reuters. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: 85% women in India miss out on a raise, promotion because of gender: LinkedIn

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

Arora was born in Haryana and spent her early years in Saudi Arabia. Her parents, both doctors, had relocated there. She was in India from age 9 to 18 years, before she decided to move to Canada

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 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