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Photograph: Kunal Patil/PTI Photo
The inoculation drive for coronavirus will be suspended in Mumbai for the next two days owing to technical issues with the Co-WIN app, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Saturday night. Co-WIN app allows registration for the vaccination.'Digital registration is mandatory for...
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The armed forces on Saturday administered coronavirus vaccine to over 3,000 military doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel on the first day of the nation-wide vaccination drive.Sources in the security establishment said 3,129 health care workers of the Indian Army, deployed across the country...
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The district and sessions court here has asked actor Salman Khan to appear before it on February 6, while exempting him from appearance on Saturday.Khan was asked to appear in the court on Saturday in connection with the hearing of a petition challenging a trial court order sentencing him to five...
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Since it was the first day of vaccination drive across India on Saturday, a few issues came up with Co-WIN digital platform including delay in uploading beneficiary list at some session sites and a few healthcare workers who got vaccinated were not scheduled for today's session.However,...
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Several Trinamool Congress leaders, including two MLAs, were among the people who received the COVID-19 vaccine in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday, while many healthcare workers alleged that they could not get the jab though they were asked to come for it. District health...
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Ahead of Republic Day, Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava on Saturday held a review meeting in which he also took stock of the arrangements at farmers' agitation sites to maintain law and order, officials said.In the meeting held with senior officers, the police chief took stock of...
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The Union government has said that 1,65,714 beneficiaries were inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines till 5.30 pm across India on first day.COVID-19 vaccines -- Covaxin and Covishield -- administered at 3,351 session sites across India, the government said.16,755 personnel were involved in organising...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said he will receive the COVID-19 vaccine after corona warriors and frontline health staff 'in the third phase as per the protocol set by the Centre'.He said the vaccine was completely safe and asked opposition parties not to...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed the COVID-19 vaccine administration at Balrampur hospital in Lucknow on Saturday.102 health workers would receive the vaccine at the hospital today... The second dose is required after 28 days, and the vaccine will require 12-15 days to...
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A group of 100 former civil servants wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday raising questions over transparency in the PM-CARES Fund. They said it is necessary that, for reasons of probity and adherence to standards of public accountability, the financial...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the Indian Army has boosted the morale of the country and also enabled the people to hold their heads high during the border standoff with China. Singh said this while addressing a gathering here during the 'bhoomipujan' and foundation stone...
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The number of people who have tested positive for the new UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country has climbed to 116, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. The total number of persons found infected with the new UK variant genome is 116, the ministry said. All these persons...
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The country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank on Saturday reported a 14.36 per cent jump in consolidated net profit to Rs 8,760 crore for the December quarter. At the standalone level, the net profit for the three-month period grew 18.09 per cent to Rs 8,758.29 crore.Its total...
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Journalist Nidhi Razdan, who in June 2020 announced her decision to quit NDTV, where she worked for 21 years, to join Harvard University to teach journalism, on Friday posted on Twitter that the job offer was part of an elaborate phishing exercise. I have been the victim of a very serious...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi should first get himself vaccinated for COVID-19 to clear doubts in the minds of people, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi leader Prakash Ambedkar said on Saturday.Speaking to reporters, Ambedkar said the VBA will hold protests across Maharashtra on January 27 in support of the...
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Former Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's national spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain was named by the party on Saturday its MLC candidate from Bihar. The announcement marks Hussain's return to electoral politics, albeit to the state level, for the first time since 2014 when...
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History will remember Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for standing up to the present dictatorial regime, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said on Saturday. Taking to Twitter, Mufti said it is a fact that new India is in the grip of a select few and Gandhi is the only...
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Manish Kumar gets vaccine in Delhi
Manish Kumar, a 34-year-old machine operator at AIIMS who became the first person in Delhi to get the COVID-19 vaccine, said he had himself asked the hospital authorities to be vaccinated first as his colleagues chosen for the exercise were scared to get the jab.Kumar, whose mother Laxmi Rani...
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With a Covishield jab on his forearm, BJP leader and Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma on Saturday got vaccinated for coronavirus as a 'healthcare worker', becoming among the first parliamentarians in India to get inoculated for the infection. Sharma, who is also a trained MBBS doctor, got...
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A special court in Maharashtra's Thane district on Saturday granted bail to 89 accused in the Palghar mob lynching case, in which two sadhus and their driver were killed.District judge S B Bahalkar in his order granted bail to 89 accused and fixed the next date of hearing in the case to February...
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Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering on Saturday congratulated his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the landmark launch of the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive, hoping it would mitigate the sufferings endured by the people due to the pandemic. Modi on Saturday launched the...
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Bharat Biotech, which has received a government purchase order for supply of 55 lakh doses of Covaxin, a COVID-19 vaccine, said the company will pay compensation to recipients in case of any serious adverse effects experienced after receiving the antidote. In the consent form...
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In the backdrop of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the country, senior Congress leader Manish Tewari on Saturday raised questions over the emergency use approval given to the indigenously developed vaccine Covaxin and alleged that it was sans due process. India recently granted two vaccines...
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A Covishield vaccine dose
The Resident Doctors' Association of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi on Saturday requested the medical superintendent to vaccinate them with Oxford COVID-19 vaccine Covishield. In a letter to the medical superintendent, the association said the resident doctors were a bit...
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Former CEO of ratings agency BARC, Partho Dasgupta, who was arrestedin the alleged fake Television Ratings Point case, has been admitted in the ICU of state-run JJ hospital in central Mumbai, an official said on Saturday.Dasgupta, a diabetic, was rushed to the hospital from the Taloja Central...
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Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla on Saturday recieved the vaccine shot and wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi success in launching the vaccination rollout in the country. I wish India and Sri Narendra Modi ji great success in launching the world's largest COVID vaccination...
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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday urged people not to believe in rumours and listen to experts who say COVID-19 vaccines are safe, as the world's largest immunisation programme against the disease began in the country. Kejriwal inspected the COVID-19 vaccination campaign at...
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United States President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American Sameera Fazili to a key White House position related to economy.Sameera Fazili has been named as Deputy Director, National Economic Council at the White House, the Biden-Harris Transition announced on Friday.The National...
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COVID-19 vaccines are 'Sanjivani' in our fight against coronavirus infection, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan said after the COVID-19 vaccination drives kicked off in the country. This is probably the biggest immunisation campaign against COVID-19 anywhere in the world. India has...
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India all-rounder Hardik Pandya and his brother Krunal's father Himanshu has died. Krunal, who was leading Baroda in the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy, has left the bio-bubble created for the tournament to be with his family, association secretary Ajit Lele told PTI. Hardik is not playing...
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Health Minister Harsh Vardhan shows a dose of COVAXIN
The COVID-19 vaccination drive began across country after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the world's biggest drive via via video conferencing.Addressing the nation ahead of the launch, Modi reminded people that two doses of vaccine are very important and asked them to maintain wearing...
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AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria receives COVID-19 vaccine jab at AIIMS, Delhi.
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Manish Kumar, a sanitation worker, becomes the first Indian to receive COVID-19 vaccine jab at AIIMS, Delhi in presence of Union health minister Harsh Vardhan.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launching India's vaccination drive today, said people should not fall for propaganda over vaccines.Scientists gave nod to two made-in-India vaccines after being sure of their effects, don't pay heed to rumours, propaganda, the PM said.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while launching the Covid-19 vaccination drive in India, teared up while talking about the struggle-filled journey of lakhs of people who worked to eradicate the deadly disease from the country. Some of them could not even return home, he says.Speaking to the nation,...
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PM Modi says, Such a big vaccination drive hasnt been conducted in history. Look at the figures in the first phase. 3 crore. We have to take it to 30 crore in the second phase. America, China and India are the only 3 countries in the world with a population of over 30cr. Hence the vaccination...
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Its important to take doses. Dont make the mistake of taking one dose and then forgetting about dose two. Listen to the experts about the gap to be kept. Two weeks after the second dose, will you build immunity against coronavirus. I appeal to you not to forget coronavirus appropriate behaviour...
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PM Narendra Modi has launched India's coronavirus vaccination drive via video conference. Addressing the nation, PM Narendra Modi said, Everyone was waiting for this day with bated breath. Everyone kept asking when will the vaccine come. Its here and in a short span of time. In some minutes from...
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Prime Minister Modi launches vaccination drive against coronavirus.The world's biggest inoculation programme against the novel coronavirus infection begins on Saturday as India starts vaccinating its high-risk healthcare workers.The vaccination drive has been planned in a phased manner,...
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Health Minister Dr Harshvardhan arrives at AIIMS, heads to vaccination site. Photograph: ANI/Twitter
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A trio of a doctor, a nurse and a sanitation worker will receive coronavirus vaccine shots in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the state-run LNJP Hospital on Saturday. CM Arvind Kejriwal is slated to visit LNJP Hospital to inspect the vaccination drive as Delhi gets...
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India reports 15,158 new COVID-19 cases, 16,977 discharges and 175 deaths in last 24 hours, as per official figures released by the health ministry.Total cases: 1,05,42,841Active cases: 2,11,033 Total discharges: 1,01,79715 Death toll: 1,52,093
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With aarti thalis and sweets, the staff of Cooper hospital in Mumbai wait to welcome the beneficiaries of the Covid-19 vaccine. Photograph: ANI/Twitter
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A grim milestone has been reached globally as the COVID-19 deaths have breached the 2 million deaths mark while the cases are nearing 94 million.As of Saturday, 7.52 am IST, the COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University reported that the...
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Health care workers who will be vaccinated today as India begins its emergency vaccination drive from today onwards, the health ministry has asked the beneficiaries to rest at least for half an hour after getting vaccinated. All vaccine sites have three marked areas for waiting, vaccination...
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Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking free COVID-19 vaccination for the poor in the state. The chief minister acknowledged the receipt of 2,04,500 doses of Covishield vaccine and also thanked the prime minister for making this vaccine available...
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Former Union minister and businessman Kamal Mahavirprasad Morarka died in Mumbai on Friday evening following a heart attack.He was 74.He was fine till around 5 pm today, but passed away shortly afterwards owing to a heart attack, said Rajendra Sharma, one of Morarkas aides.Rajkumar Sharma, MLA...
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Ahead of the world's biggest Covid vaccination drive, the Health Ministry said in a tweet it was ready.India is set to roll out the world's biggest vaccination programme today with over 3 lakh healthcare workers to be inoculated on the first day of the much-anticipated drive, which the government...
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Former Union minister and sitting Lok Sabha MP Mahesh Sharma on Friday said he would take the COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, becoming one of the first parliamentarians to get jabbed for coronavirus in the country.Sharma, a trained MBBS doctor and MP from Gautam Buddh Nagar district in Uttar...
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