Vaccines will be given free of cost at govt centres. Amount people will need to pay in private hospitals will be decided by health ministryin 3-4 days, says Union minister Prakash Javadekar

Jaishankar arrived here in India's strategically key maritime neighbour in the Indian Ocean region on Sunday night from the Maldives on the last leg of his two-nation tour

AstraZeneca's statement late in the day said the company was striving to increase productivity to deliver the promised 180 million doses

Biological E has tied up with vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. And, it plans to start the Phase 3 trial of the candidate licensed from Baylor College next week

The unlocking of economy saw domestic demand benefiting from festive tailwinds, pent up consumption, pickup in capacity utilisation and resumption in sectoral activities, DBS Bank said.

The approval to the vaccine without phase-3 efficacy data had drawn severe criticism with the government reiterating its stand that the vaccine was safe to use

Budget allocated to health sector is unprecedented. It is a symbol of our commitment to provide better healthcare to every countryman, says PM Modi

The commissioner said that these cases were detected between February 15 and 22, following which nine mobile teams were deployed and 500 RT-PCR samples were taken

Over three lakh beneficiaries have received COVID-19 vaccine till date in Delhi since the start of the inoculation drive a month ago, with more than 27,000 people receiving shots on Monday, according to data shared by officials

The findings of the study become significant as in many parts of the world, mutant variants of the virus are causing a new surge in COVID-19 cases. The current increase in the number of infections in some Indian states may also be due to the presence of virus variants, it is feared

Only two states, Maharashtra and Kerala, account for 75.87 per cent of the total number of active COVID-19 cases, as per the union health ministry

The government might engage private firms and institutions to vaccinate the 50-plus age group to cover a much larger target population of 27 crore individuals. It will also include below-50 age group with serious co-morbidities

As per MPC minutes, Governor Shaktikanta Das said the sharp correction in food inflation has improved the near-term headline inflation outlook, although core inflation pressures persist

The company, which has its labs in England, had in early September 2020 received the approval from the Drug Controller General (DCGI) to conduct the phase 2 clinical trial of GPP-Baladol in patients with moderate infection of the pandemic with oxygen support

Premji said the IT industry and the government have appreciated the value of a permanent hybrid model where people would work partly from office and home even after the end of the pandemic

Veterinarians believe that the sudden spike in parvovirus cases is due to the skipping of timely vaccination amid the coronavirus pandemic

India can swiftly take up the COVID-19 vaccine doses at a shorter time and at a reasonable cost if private firms enter to vaccination process, Azim Premji said

Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman underlined that the nation's growing and aspiring needs and demands across the various sectors cannot be served just by the state government and central governments put together

The $50 million credit line agreement for defence projects was signed between the Finance Ministry of Maldives and the Export Import Bank of India