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Have asked varsities to hold final year exams, AICTE tells Bombay HC

The petition by Dhananjay Kulkarni, retired teacher and ex-senate member from Pune, said the state government has no power to take such a decision

Delhi may have hit Covid-19 peak, daily cases declining: AIIMS director

He also said cases are increasing in certain states and they will reach a peak later, but there is not much evidence of community transmission of Covid-19 at the national level

Lockdown in Pune not to be extended beyond July 23; some curbs to stay

Authorities imposed a strict lockdown from July 14 until July 23 after the western Maharashtra city witnessed a surge in Covid-19 cases

Covid-19 vaccine: Oxford candidate safe, shows immune response in trial

The preliminary results of the phase 1-2 trial, published in The Lancet journal, involved 1,107 healthy adults, and found that the vaccine induced an immune response both via antibodies and T-cells

Pfizer-BioNTech potential Covid-19 vaccine shows promise in additional data

The companies said the data also demonstrated an induction of high level of T-cell response against the novel coronavirus

Sriharikota space station to function with skeletal staff due to Covid-19

All the employees except those providing essential services are ordered to work from home and be available over phone or mail

Human trials for Covaxin start today, know how to participate and more

Delhi's AIIMS will choose 100 participants out of 375 volunteers for the first and second phase of the trial

Centre needs to acknowledge community spread, ramp-up testing: Sanjay Singh

AAP leader Sanjay Singh has advised the Centre to accept that community spread of the coronavirus is happening and follow Delhi's lead in containing the virus by ramping-up testing "on a large scale"

Delhi coronavirus update: Sub-1,000 new cases for first time since June 1

With 954 new daily cases on Monday, the national capital reported its smallest single-day jump in coronavirus cases since June 1

India Coronavirus dispatch: Link between Mumbai's slums and Covid spread

Adapting health care and education post-Covid, no link between currency notes and Covid spread, and why some patients suffer fatigue even after recovery-news on how India is dealing with the pandemic

India's Covid-19 cases cross 1.1 mn mark, recoveries more than 700,000

There are 3,90,459 active cases in the country, while 7,00,086 people have recovered and one person has migrated. The recovery rate stands at 62.62 per cent

Over hundred BSF personnel among 223 new Covid-19 cases in Tripura

Tripura has detected 223 new cases of Covid-19, taking the state's tally to 2,892, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said

New nano drug candidate kills aggressive breast cancer cells: Report

Researchers have developed a new nano-drug candidate that kills triple negative breast cancer cells, which is one of the most aggressive and fatal types of breast cancer

Coronavirus will not be controlled by jugaad: Mayawati to UP govt

Mayawati on Monday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the virus has assumed a "horrible shape" in the state and it was a matter of serious concern

Govt, media became part of solution to problem posed by Covid-19: Naqvi

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that in times of crisis, govt, society, cinema, and media in India act as "four bodies, one soul", and in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic they became a part of the solution

Covid-19: Covaxin trial starts today; Russia denies UK's hacking claims

Covaxin is an indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine candidate, developed by a Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR and NIV

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain recovers from Covid-19, to resume work

He was administered plasma therapy after which his condition improved and was discharged nine days later on June 26

Maharashtra Congress minister Aslam Shaikh tests Covid-19 positive

Maharashtra Minister and senior Congress leader from Mumbai Aslam Shaikh has tested positive for Covid-19

Record single-day spike of 40,425 Covid cases; tally crosses 1.1 million

The death toll due to the disease rose to 27,497 with 681 fatalities reported in one day

Kumaraswamy protests boards marking out houses of Covid-19 patients

The Covid-19 count in Karnataka reached 63,772 on Sunday, including 39,370 active cases and 23,065 cured and discharged patients