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Hyderabad: The free Covid booster/precautionary vaccine administration drive at government healthcare facilities, focusing on vaccination of individuals between 18 years and 59 years of age, got underway on Friday. The booster Covid vaccine administration drive was launched on April 10 of this year. However, at that time the union Health Ministry had permitted booster doses […]

Hyderabad: Housing non-profit organization, Habitat for Humanity India, and home furnishings company, IKEA in India have joined hands to repair homes of 70 marginalised families living in Jagathgirigutta, Medchal district. The community living in Jagathgirigutta is inhabited by daily wage earners, domestic helpers, vegetable vendors, and those working in the informal sector, most living in […]

New Delhi: With an aim to increase the uptake of the precautionary dose of COVID vaccine among the eligible adult population, 75 days – ‘COVID Vaccination Amrit Mahotsava’ will commence on Friday, informed the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This special vaccination drive is a part of the celebration for Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday reported 512 Covid positive infections out of which 293 were from areas under GHMC, 53 from Rangareddy and 49 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. While the number of active Covid cases has reached 5,051, a total of 543 individuals have recovered on Thursday, taking the overall recoveries to 7,99,011, the Covid health bulletin […]

Hyderabad: The Telangana government has taken up special arrangements to administer booster or precautionary Covid doses to individuals between 18 years and 59 years at various public locations including all government healthcare facilities from Friday. The special drive will be conducted for 75-days and all the eligible individuals, who have completed six months after taking […]

New Delhi: People in the 18-59 age group will get free precaution doses of the Covid vaccine at government vaccination centres under a 75-day special drive likely to begin from July 15, official sources said on Wednesday. The drive, aimed at boosting the uptake of Covid precaution doses, will be held as part of the […]

The pandemic has exposed India’s creaky healthcare system, abysmally low public spending and skewed priorities when it comes to addressing the challenges of infectious diseases. It also laid bare the gaping holes in the 125-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act, which is devoid of provisions for the management of a Covid-like national health emergency. Learning lessons from […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Tuesday reported 562 Covid positive infections out of which 329 were from areas under GHMC, 60 from Rangareddy and 52 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. While the number of active Covid cases has reached 5,112, a total of 616 individuals have recovered on Tuesday, taking the overall recoveries to 7, 97, 911, the Covid […]

Hyderabad: With the academic loss caused by COVID-19 in mind, Utkarsh Kishore, a social reformer and the founder of TeamUK, has written to the Director of Higher Education, demanding the adoption of bridge courses in Bihar’s universities. Bridge courses are ones that can be utilised to go over concepts and lectures from the COVID-19 period […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Sunday reported 459 Covid positive infections out of which 323 were from areas under GHMC, 40 from Rangareddy and 29 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. While the number of active Covid cases has reached 5,180, a total of 468 individuals have recovered on Sunday, taking the overall recoveries to 7,96,833, the Covid health bulletin […]

Mancherial: She can mellifluously render Annamayya Keerthanas in Telugu, sing Urdu qawwalis and even Marathi bhajans. She can effortlessly croon in 17 languages, besides enacting monologues and mimicking popular actors of Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam films. Meet Kattoju Jahnavi, a 16-year old versatile girl from Mancherial district who has been impressing one and all […]

New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 18,840 in a day to reach 4,36,04,394 while the number of active cases increased to 1,25,028, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll has climbed to 5,25,386 with 43 more people succumbing to the viral disease, the data updated at 8 am […]

A string of technical glitches involving budget carrier SpiceJet has raised concerns over air safety. Added to this were the frequent delays and instances of technical malfunctions reported by IndiGo and Vistara. The show-cause notice issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to SpiceJet after its planes were involved in eight incidents of […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Friday reported 608 Covid positive infections out of which 329 were from areas under GHMC, 67 from Rangareddy and 54 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. The number of active Covid cases on Friday reached 5,146 while 459 individuals have recovered today taking the overall recoveries to 7,95,880, the Covid health bulletin said. The health […]

Hyderabad: Sandeep KB, an avid biker wished to travel across the country on his bike, but a busy career at an MNC didn’t leave him much time to follow his passion. However, when the pandemic struck, Sandeep witnessed how uncertain life can be. “I observed a few things during the second wave of Covid that […]

Hyderabad: The surge of Covid infections driven by different variants of Omicron has just become even more complicated with geneticists reporting Covid infections due to BA.2.75, the new Omicron variant in different States including Telangana. Between March and June 7, the average daily Covid infections in Telangana hovered between 55 and 65. Since then, there […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Thursday reported 592 Covid positive infections out of which 331 were from areas under GHMC, 60 from Rangareddy and 45 from Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. The number of active Covid cases on Thursday reached 4,997 and 477 individuals recovered taking the overall recoveries to 7,95,421, the Covid health bulletin said. The health department conducted […]

Geneva: A new sub-variant BA.2.75 of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in various countries including India, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Ghebreyesus said that the world body was following the development. “On COVID-19, globally reported cases have increased nearly 30 per cent over the past two weeks. Four out […]

Hyderabad: The cash registers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) haven’t had a break from ringing in the last three months, with the property tax collection racing towards Rs.1,000 crore, which is a record collection for the first quarter of any fiscal year. Already, in the three months of April to June, the civic […]

Despite the rapid growth in digital payments over the last few years, cash remains the king in India. As a proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP), Indians still hold a relatively large share of cash, one of the highest in the world. The Currency in Circulation (CiC), as a proportion of GDP, has grown […]