
The Centre has prepared a bill to raise the age for allowing sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to 21 years from the current 18 years....

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (United) are angry after the statement made by former Bihar Chief Minister and opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Rabri Devi, saying that her party leaders would think about Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar rejoining the Opposition Grand Alliance ...

Light rains accompanied by thunderstorms occurred at various places in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), besides some more areas of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Saturday. Dense to very dense fog was witnessed in isolated pockets over Punjab, Haryana ...

The Delhi government on Saturday announced free Covid-19 vaccine doses to people in the capital city while and ensured the inoculation of one lakh people on a regular basis soon after it receives it from the Centre. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain made the announcement while reviewing the ...

Passengers travelling from the United Kingdom to India from January 8 to 31 will now be subjected to mandatory self-paid RT-PCR test at the airport, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. Flight services between the two countries were suspended on December 22 in the ...

Hundreds of students of the government girls college situated in sector-14 of Gurugram blocked the road near Mahavir Chowk on Saturday demanding cancellation of second semester exams. The protest led to a huge traffic jam. The students were protesting against the college management for again conducting...

A drill for Covid-19 vaccination was conducted smoothly on Saturday at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital and Madras Medical College, a top official said. "By afternoon, the drill was completed for 27 persons," Therani Rajan, Dean of ...

As India gears up to launch world's largest immunisation drive, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday requested people to not pay heed to the rumours against the much-awaited vaccine. "I want to appeal to people to not believe in any rumors. Our prime criteria in ...

The Central government would set up 3 bulk drugs parks to make chemicals compounds or active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for medicines and reduce their imports from China, said Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers D.V. Sadananda Gowda on Friday....

As India gears up to launch the world's largest immunisation drive, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that one crore healthcare workers and two crore frontline workers would be given free vaccine in the first phase of the inoculation drive....