The world needs somewhere between 8-10 billion syringes for coronavirus vaccines alone. Earlier, before COVID-19, only 5-10 per cent of 16 billion syringes were used for vaccines

Adani Ports stock touched an all-time high of Rs 768.4, up 2.65% against previous close of Rs 748.55 on BSE

The thrust on R&D services came after it became one of the fastest-growing segments among India's services exports

Sputnik V has already been approved or is being assessed for approval in three EU member states - Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Emphasising the importance of avoiding large gatherings and agitations in the next one month, Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar said he would speak to the police officials to enforce the guidelines

Chakraborty was inducted into the BJP during PM Narendra Modi's mega rally at Brigade Ground, Kolkata, a little ahead of the Prime Minister's address. At the rally, Chakraborty crafted a new slogan 'I'm a cobra, one bite is enough', while addressing the crowd

The authorised share capital of LIC shall be Rs 25,000 crore divided into 2,500 crore shares of Rs 10 each, as per the amendments proposed in the Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956

CM Kejriwal announced setting up of the Delhi Board of School Education(DBSE) which he said would be based at par with international standards to prepare \"fiercely patriotic and self-dependent students\"

Punjab is among the five states that has been asked by the Centre to refocus on strict surveillance, containment and RT-PCR testing to check the growing number of cases

\"We have provisionally decided that IPL will start on April 9 and end on May 30,\" a senior BCCI source told. \"The formal approval of dates and venues will be done during Governing Council meeting next week,\" he added

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The national capital has 1,000 government schools and around 1,700 private schools. All government-run schools in Delhi are affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and so are most private schools in the state, the Chief Minister explained

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed state authorities to make COVID-19 negative reports mandatory for travellers coming from Maharashtra

Calhoun, who became CEO in January 2020, received $269,231 in salary for the period before he disavowed his salary in March

Nadhim Zahawi, in an interview with The Associated Press, confirmed reports that the Serum Institute of India, one of the world's largest vaccine makers, would be sending doses of the vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca to the UK

Call on bringing fuels under GST to be taken closer to GST Council meet: Sitharaman Amidst the rise in fuel prices, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said she might take a call closer to the GST Council meeting about proposing to the Council to bring petrol and diesel under the goods and services tax (GST). Sitharaman admitted that taxes on fuels should be brought down to reduce the burden on consumers, and called pricing a worrying issue. Dual airbags mandatory for new cars f...

At a press briefing, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said countries with their own vaccine capacity should start waiving intellectual property rights as provided in special emergency provisions from the World Trade Organization

ICICI Lombard said it will pay the interim dividend to those shareholders whose names appear in the record of the company/depository as on March 19, 2021

India's Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had in the run-up to Thursday's OPEC meeting urged the producers' group to ease production curbs to fulfil their promise of stable oil prices

The state-run miner has fixed March 16, 2021, as the record date for the payment of second interim dividend for FY21. The interim dividend will be paid \"on and from March 24, 2021\", Coal India said