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The ruling Jannayak Janta Party in Haryana on Thursday decided to close the party office and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala's residence here to visitors for the next two weeks after some of the staff tested positive for COVID-19. The party's Ha...

Manipur's COVID-19 tally crossed the 30,000-mark on Thursday as 86 more people tested positive for the disease, an official said. The fresh infections pushed the coronavirus caseload in the northeastern state to 30,047, he said.

Depressed over the death of her mother, a woman committed suicide in Raisen district on Wednesday, police said.

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He also launched the 'India-US climate and clean energy Agenda 2030 partnership' with US President Joe Biden.

Delhi logged 24,638 coronavirus cases and 249 deaths on Wednesday, as the positivity rate stood at 31.28 percent — meaning almost every third sample turned out to be positive.

Maharashtra is the worst-hit state in the country and has been reporting more than 50,000 daily Covid-19 cases for several days amid the rapid second wave of infections.

It also warned that 'all hell will break loose with the stoppage of medical oxygen to the hospitals'.

The finance minister was addressing senior industry captains in a virtual interaction organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

The vaccine developed by researchers, including those from the University of Virginia (UVA) in the US, prevented pigs from being becoming ill with a pig model coronavirus.

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The Food and Civil Supplies Minister announced that government may have to impose restrictions on local train movement.

The Centre has opened up COVID-19 vaccination to all citizens over 18 years of age from May 1. Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and Rajasthan are among 10 states that account for over 76 per cent of the new cases registered in the country.

It said the investigation found that several properties in states like Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand were acquired in the name of various companies of Basil Group and Rose Valley Group, by "illegally" divert...

A division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and C V Bhadang dismissed an appeal filed by pharmaceutical firm Cutis Biotech claiming trademark of the name 'Covishield' and seeking a direction to Serum Institute of India to stop using the name for its COVID19...

However, Congress party leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah, present in the meeting, did not agree to impose lockdown but called for stringent measures needed to be taken.