Airlines allowed to fly 12,983 weekly domestic flights in winter scheduleThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation has approved 12,983 weekly domestic flights for the winter schedule. This schedule began on Sunday and will end on March 27 next year. In last year's winter schedule, the aviation regulator had approved 23,307 weekly domestic flights. Currently, airlines in India are allowed to operate a maximum 60 per cent of pre-COVID weekly domestic flights.Coronavirus vaccine: AstraZeneca, ...

The BJP announcement of free COVID vaccine for Bihar had kicked up a controversy with the opposition parties tearing into the NDA government alleging that the ruling party was using the pandemic for political reasons

Over 40 coronavirus vaccine candidates are in clinical trials worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation

Seventy-five per cent of the new recoveries were observed to be concentrated in 10 states and Union territories -- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

Coronavirus vaccines administered through the intramuscular injection route protects the lower lungs but not the upper lung. Nasal vaccines can protect the lungs completely and stop transmission and also infection

COVID-19 vaccine: The deliberations by the high-level National Expert Vaccine Group on Vaccine Administration comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi underscored the geographical span of the country

Coronavirus vaccine update: Testing of the AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has already resumed in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa and Japan

Out of the 7,324 adolescents surveyed, 31 per cent admitted to battling extreme anxiety worrying about the pandemic's impact on their family's financial status

Finance Ministry issues guidelines for implementation of interest waiver; Govt to fetch Rs 60,000 crore from BPCL, Concor, SCI, BEML sale; Pakistan to stay on terror financing 'grey list' till February 2021. Watch this and more news on News Blast.

Bihar elections 2020: Sitharaman had released the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) manifesto for the Bihar polls on Thursday. A highlight of the promises made in the document was free COVID vaccines for the state's people if the saffron party comes back to power

Finance Ministry issues guidelines for implementation of interest waiverFinance Ministry has approved guidelines for a scheme granting ex-gratia payment against the difference between compound interest and simple interest for six months on loans up to Rs 2 crore. The guidelines came after the Supreme Court directed the Centre to implement as soon as possible the interest waiver on such loans during the RBI moratorium. As per the operational guidelines by Department of Financial Services, the...

Tedros said too many countries were now seeing an exponential increase in infections, \"and that is now leading to hospitals and intensive care units running close or above capacity -- and we're still only in October\".

To the question, \"How long do you think you can easily sustain this post COVID way of living with restriction?\" 38 per cent of the 8,496 respondents said they are \"willing to live the COVID-19 way of living for as long as it takes\"

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

Covaxin, the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), is expected to be at least 60 per cent effective

India's smartphone shipments hit record high in Q3 2020; Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo top charts; Bank credit rises to Rs 103.44 lakh crore; The world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute of India (SII), is readying one billion doses of five different COVID-19 vaccines worldwide before the end of 2021-22. Watch this and more news on News Blast.

Traders said positive economic data out of US and progress in stimulus talks in Washington lifted investors sentiments. With less than two weeks to go before the US presidential election, global markets have turned flat with positive bias

Even before COVID-19 vaccine is ready, India is busy planning how to distribute the cure to different parts of the country, and the task is enormous

Serum to launch 5 COVID-19 vaccines by 2021 end; floats new firmThe world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute of India (SII), is readying one billion doses of five different COVID-19 vaccines worldwide before the end of 2021-22. Serum has floated a new company Serum Institute Life Sciences (SILS) that will exclusively focus on developing, producing and supplying pandemic vaccines. SILS is owned by the Pune-based billionaire Cyrus Poonawala and his son Adar Poonawala.Maharasht...

Serum to launch 5 COVID-19 vaccines by 2021 end; floats new firmThe world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute of India (SII), is readying one billion doses of five different COVID-19 vaccines worldwide before the end of 2021-22. Serum has floated a new company Serum Institute Life Sciences (SILS) that will exclusively focus on developing, producing and supplying pandemic vaccines. SILS is owned by the Pune-based billionaire Cyrus Poonawala and his son Adar Poonawala.Maharashtra...