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A total of 2,88,09,339 positive cases have been reported so far, including 2,69,84,781 recoveries, and 14,77,799 active cases.

The move came after it was found that vaccine hesitancy was higher among women than men, said an official statement issued by the Uttar Pradesh government.

The latest to join the elite tech CEOs' club is Rajesh Nambiar, currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India, who has replaced Malcolm Frank, Executive Vice President and President, Digital Business

Lockdown has thrown these children's education back by years, and it will take years to reach where they were before the pandemic, says director of Sparsh Special School

The district administration suspended a patwari (local revenue officer) and panchayat secretary, while a police official was also line-attached (removed from field duty), other officials said.

Prime Minister also interacted with farmers to gain insight on their firsthand experience, as enablers under the Ethanol Blended Petrol and Compressed Bio-Gas Programmes.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) said that Twitter's refusal to comply with the rules demonstrated the microblogging site's "lack of commitment and efforts towards providing a safe experience for the people of India on its platform".

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal also said the Delhi government will set up two genome sequencing labs at the LNJP Hospital and the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences to determine the coronavirus variant

Priyanka Gandhi said that the Standing Committee of Parliament on Health had warned of the Second Wave and also recommended to focus on hospital beds, oxygen availability. "But the focus of the government was somewhere else," she said.

The lockdown-like restrictions in the state were imposed in April this year when the second wave of the pandemic intensified.

The current lockdown comes to an end on June 7.

Twitter said the account has been inactive since July 2020. It said the verified badge has now been restored.

The daily positivity rate further dipped to 5.78 per cent, less than 10 per cent for 12th consecutive day, the ministry said.

Sen said India could not play on its strengths because of a poor response to the crisis due to confusion in the government.

Although, the official handle of the Vice President of India @VPSecretariat continues to have the blue badge. According to Twitter, the blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic.

‘Speciesism’ is the thought process that humans have a bigger moral right and the right over other species, just because humans are humans

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The multidisciplinary research unit at BHU collected about 130 samples for sequencing from Varanasi and areas around the city in April

The Vandalur Zoo in a statement said the lioness Neela had been asymptotic and showed some nasal discharge only on Wednesday and had been treated immediately.

The protest outside the residences of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs and MLAs is to mark the one year of the promulgation of these laws as ordinances by the Centre, the official said.

The Home Ministry had issued an order on June 29, 2020 conveying that the Indian visa or stay stipulation period of such foreign nationals expiring post June 30, 2020 shall be deemed.

According to agencies sources, the private Qatar jet left from Dominica on Thursday along with the eight member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)

"Siddharth Pithani, late actor Sushant Singh Rajput's friend, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody, in connection with drug case," informed Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai.

A bench comprising Justices Navin Sinha and Ajay Rastogi said there is no ground made out to interfere with the Delhi High Court order.