MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA

India's Usha Rao-Monari appointed as Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of UNDP

A statement issued by the UN Spokesperson here on Wednesday said that Rao-Monari, Senior Adviser to Blackstone's Infrastructure Group, is a...

Can our coronavirus vaccine fight new strains? India to test

The ICMR had announced on Tuesday that Pune-based National Institute of Virology was in the process of isolating and culturing the South Af...

New Covid cases in India fall below 10,000 for fourth time in February

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,06,33, 025 which translates to a national COVID-19 recovery rate of ...

11,713 new cases take India's coronavirus tally to 1,08,14,304

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 1,08,14,304 and the death toll climbed to 1,54,918 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 95 live...

21.5% of population showed evidence of past exposure to COVID in latest national serosurvey: Govt

Presenting the findings of the survey, ICMR Director General Dr Balram Bhargava said 21.4 per cent of the 28,589 people, aged 18 years and ...

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine to seek India approval by March

A source close to the drug regulator said the application could come within days and when approved, bolster India's 18-day-old immunisation...

Timely, calibrated decisions taken by Centre saved lakhs of lives during pandemic: President

During this period, the country has demonstrated its scientific capabilities, technical expertise and the strength of its start-up ecosyste...

COVID-19: India records 18,855 fresh cases, 163 more fatalities; recovery rate surges to 96.96 per cent

The death toll due to the viral disease in the country has climbed to 1,54,010 with 163 more fatalities, the ministry's data updated at 8 a...

Pfizer wants India to order COVID-19 vaccine before pursuing approval

Pfizer was the first company to seek emergency-use authorisation (EUA) for a COVID-19 vaccine in India, but the government this month appro...

India to give homegrown vaccine in seven more states this week

The government this month gave emergency-use approval to the vaccine, developed by Bharat Biotech International Ltd and state-run Indian Co...

COVID-19: India records 10,064 new cases, caseload rises to 1,05,81,837

The country's death toll increased to 1,52,556 as 137 fatalities, the lowest in around eight months, were recorded in a span of 24 hours, t...

Vaccine is completely safe, says doctor who got first jab in Gujarat

Of 100 health workers who were administered COVID-19 vaccine at the civil hospital, nearly half were doctors, including critical care speci...

India records 15,158 fresh COVID-19 cases, 175 more deaths

India's COVID-19 caseload climbed to 1,05,42,841 on Saturday with 15,158 more people testing positive for the disease while recoveries surg...

COVID-19: 18,222 new cases take India's virus tally to 1,04,31,639

India's COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,04,31,639 with 18,222 new cases in a day, while 1,00,56,651 people have recuperated so far pus...

COVID-19: 18,177 new cases take India's virus tally to 1,03,23,965

The death toll climbed to 1,49,435 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 217 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the data updat...

COVID-19 case tally of India reached 1,02,86,709 on January 01

The COVID-19 case tally of India reached 1,02,86,709 on January 01 after reporting 20,036 new cases in the last 24 hours. 256 casualties li...

View: It hasn't been that bad a year for India at all

On the whole, this year did seem, at times, to be without hope and a roadmap. Fortunately, India, with strong leadership at its helm, was a...