Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the government will soon take a decision on revising the minimum age of marriage for girls after it receives report from the committee set up for the same

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

Initially, the cost of the RT-PCR test in the national capital was Rs 4,800. It was later reduced to Rs 2,400. However, in the neighbouring states, such as Haryana, the test cost is half of Delhi. In Haryana, a solo RT-PCR test cost is Rs 1,200, and in Uttar Pradesh, it is Rs 1,600

The funds provisioned, so far are for the current financial year ending March 31, and going further, there will be no shortage of them for this purpose

Xiaomi continued to be the market leader with 13.1 million units, registering 9 per cent growth. Korean smartphone company Samsung regained second place once again with 10.2 million units and 7 per cent growth

Feluda, which claims to combine the accuracy of the PCR test with the accessibility of the antigen kits, uses the gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9 that had recently earned inventors Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Nobel Prize

Virmani lists out 14 major reforms carried out by the Modi government, while also mentioning that six more were pending to be implemented in the current financial year

India has 29,000 storage points, 83,000 deep freezers, 736 district stores and 258 cold rooms to store vaccines, but they have to be scaled up further for India to vaccinate all its people

The government is enterprising to ensure that coronavirus vaccine, when it comes, reaches every Indian as soon as possible, said PM Narendra Modi

The study, published in the Lancet journal, noted that life expectancy in India has risen from 59.6 years in 1990 to 70.8 years in 2019, ranging from 77.3 years in Kerala to 66.9 years in Uttar Pradesh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government will soon take a decision on revising the minimum age of marriage for girls after it receives a report from the committee set up for this

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman projected that the fresh stimulus would boost demand by Rs 73,000 crore during the remainder of FY21. However, experts do not rule out slippage in capex

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan urged people to stay away from large congregations and diligently follow COVID-19 guidelines during the upcoming festive season; The Delhi government has exempted road tax on battery-operated vehicles under its new Electric Vehicle Policy, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said; The volume of digital payments has jumped manifold in the past five years, the latest data from the central bank showed. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Rs 10,000 one-time festival advance scheme announced for all govt employees

Project completions rate, which is the value of projects completed expressed as a per cent of value of projects under implementation, dropped to 0.2 per cent in the June quarter, while it recovered marginally to 0.28 per cent in the September quarter

Dr Arvind Krishna, CEO, IBM, says India can lead the AI technology revolution since it has the world's largest community of developers, a large startup ecosystem, and a strong scientific and engineering culture

PM Modi says AI will unlock the unique potential of each person, and it'll empower them to contribute more effectively to the society

Post 120 lies along the Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) road. The names of all the 20 Indian Army personnel were inscribed at the unit-level memorial

The missile was fired from an MBT Arjun Tank at KK Ranges, Armoured Corps Centre and School (ACC&S), Ahmednagar

Taking a dig at previous Congress-led governments, he said recall what the earlier situation was like as there were several places like Lahaul Spiti that were left to struggle on their own

Atal Tunnel inauguration: The Prime Minister said that the previous government lacked the will to open the Daulat Beg Oldi airstrip. PM Modi said adding that the defence interests of the country were also compromised at a point