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The shots developed by UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca and Oxford University are being manufactured at the Serum Institute of India, which has received orders from countries across the world.

The firm sold a total of 13,06,810 vehicles during the December 2020 quarter, a rise of 9 per cent as against 12,02,486 units a year ago, it said.

The chief minister said that a high-level review meeting will be held in the next two to three days on the matter and appropriate orders will be issued.

The GDP contracted by 23.9 per cent in the June 2020 quarter due to the lockdown, and the contraction narrowed down to 7.5 per cent in the September quarter as compared to the same in the year-ago period, as the unlock process began.

Soon after independence in 1947, the princely states of Manipur and Tripura got their own statehood based on the tribal and ethnic population in the region.

If allowed to go ahead, this would be the first trial of any coronavirus vaccine in Bangladesh and could give the densely-populated country of more than 160 million faster access to the shot for mass use.

India's IndiGo has emerged as one of the world's biggest airlines by capacity, aided by a swift recovery in the domestic aviation market to nearly 80% of prepandemic levels and the financial strength to boost market share as rivals struggle.

The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to approve several COVID19 vaccines from Western and Chinese manufacturers in coming weeks and months, a document published on Wednesday shows, as it aims for rapid rollouts in poorer countries.

Antony Blinken, Biden's nominee for Secretary of State, said during a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday that the US would stay tough on China and described India as a bipartisan success story.

Responding to Congress leader P Chidambaram's tweet that there is no point in wasting opened vials with unused doses, Vardhan said no vial of COVID-19 vaccine or session is wasted.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar, by a majority of 4:1, rejected the review pleas against the apex court's September 26, 2018 verdict.

The special public prosecutor also drew the court's attention towards the purported WhatsApp chat between Dasgupta and Republic TV's Arnab Goswami.

Maharashtra Police have received a complaint about controversial web series "Tandav" and formal action will taken in the case as per law, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Wednesday. Talking to reporters here, Deshmukh also demanded the Centre t...

African countries will pay between $3 and $10 per vaccine dose to access 270 million COVID19 shots secured this month by the African Union (AU), according to a draft briefing on the plan prepared by the African ExportImport Bank (Afreximbank) and provide...

The deceased, a resident of Saherikhas village in Siddharth Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, was being taken to Mumbai for medical treatment by her parents by a private airline flight from Lucknow, said the officials of the Sonegaon police station.

Officials said the girl had left the house in May 2017, when she would be around 16, and the matter was reported at the Shalimar Bagh police station in northwest Delhi where a kidnapping case was registered and an investigation initiated.