District health authorities in Nagaland’s Zunheboto district are on a mission to vaccinate almost all residents of the district. A special mass vaccination drive was organised in the entire district for the 18 to 44 age group on Sunday. Multiple vaccination booths were set up in various locations of the town, sub-divisions and villages. People […]

Bangladesh on Sunday extended border closure with India till June 30 as the COVID-19 situation in neighbouring districts of the country continued to deteriorate. The decision for extending the closure of border areas was taken during an inter-ministerial meeting on June 13, a top official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Dhaka Tribune. A […]

Ziona Chana, believed to head the world’s largest family, with as total of 38 wives, 89 children and 33 grandchildren, died on Sunday at the age of 76 in Mizoram. Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga took to Twitter to confirm the death of Ziona Chana, and said that the state and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam […]

With 70,421 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, India maintained its declining trend of cases and reported the lowest single-day COVID-19 rise in 74 days, informed the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday. With this, the total cases have reached 2,95,10,410, and the daily positivity rate stands at 4.72 […]

Bharat Biotech on Saturday shared full data of all research studies of its Covaxin – India’s first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine. As per the company officials, the complete data for Phase I and II, and partial data for Phase III trials of Covaxin have been thoroughly scrutinised by the regulators in India. In a timely approach […]

Assam police on Saturday rescued four girls, suspected to be the victims of an attempted human trafficking bid, from the state’s Baihata area and arrested one person in this connection. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in a tweet informed that four girls from Paneri of Udalguri suspected to have been victims of attempted Human Trafficking […]

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday that recommendations of Group of Ministers (GoM) set up to look into tax relief on Covid-19 medical supplies have been accepted by the GST Council. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate has been reduced from 12 per cent earlier to 5 per cent now on Covid […]

Assam Health Minister Keshab Mahanta on Saturday said that the state government has formed 2,000 teams to vaccinate three lakh people every day provided an adequate number of doses are available. He said the state administration has an adequate stock of Covaxin for administering the second dose to people in the 18-44 years age group. […]

Amid calls to reduce the gap between two doses of Serum Institute of India’s COVID-19 vaccine Covishield based on the new findings by Public Health England, the Central government will not take the decision to change the dosage interval immediately, said sources, adding that the authorities will review the scientific evidence for the same. “There […]

The Arunachal Pradesh Staff Selection Board (APSSB) has announced that it is going to retain Tawang and Khonsa headquarters as examination centres for any exams that is conducted under the board in the future. The decision was taken after the All Tirap District Students Union (ATDSU) had opposed the shifting of the APSSB, IGNOU and […]