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SII, the world's largest vaccine maker, has signed an agreement to manufacture the potential vaccine developed by the Jenner Institute of Oxford University in collaboration with British-Swedish pharma company Astra Zeneca.

The prosecution complaint, ED's equivalent to charge sheet, has urged the court for confiscating attached assets totalling to ? 1.22 crores in the case, besides other punishment under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Arsonists set buildings ablaze and torched much of the Black business district during a second night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, triggered by the wounding of a Black man shot in the back by police as his three young sons looked on.

Bharat Biotech in collaboration with ICMR, Serum Institute of India that has partnered with AstraZeneca for manufacturing the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Oxford, and Zydus Cadila are all in advances stages.

According to a senior official in the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission here, they are currently lodged at a safe house near the India-Bangladesh border.

At the same time, former Union minister M Veerappa Moily defended being a signatory to the letter addressed to the interim president as he stressed upon the need for rejuvenating and restructuring the party.

The August 15 celebration was chaired by ST Somasekhar, district-in-charge minister, and also attended by Deputy Commissioner G Abhiram Sankar, along with other officials. Sankar later went into quarantine as his driver tested positive.

The Reserve Bank of India announced on Tuesday it will buy longer tenor bonds and sell shorter maturities in a U.S.style 'Operation Twist', but traders say it may have to do more to calm investor nerves and prevent abrupt jumps in bond yields.

The smogprone northern Chinese province of Hebei will reward whistleblowers with cash payments of up to 100,000 yuan ($14,473.67) if they report incidents of pollution to the authorities, the local environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.

The gunman who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting faces a life prison term, possibly without parole, with multiday sentencing hearings taking place this week.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Purushottam Pathak dismissed the bail plea of 26-year-old Rohit, saying CCTV footage prima facie showed that he was an active member of the unlawful assembly.

Officials had said 42-year-old Charlie Peng, alias Luo Sang, and some of his alleged associates, including Indians, and bankers were raided by the Income Tax Department on August 12.

Although Delhi witnessed overcast conditions that kept the mercury in check, the meteorological department has predicted heavy rains between Wednesday and Friday.

The All India Sports Council of the Deaf (AISCD) has accused Khel Ratna awardee, Deepa Malik of favouritism, while being the member of the national awards committee this year.

The Indonesian island of Bali has postponed a plan to reopen the country's biggest tourism hub to international tourists on Sept. 11, its governor said, due to the rising level of coronavirus cases reported in the Southeast Asian country.

COVID-19 patients with high blood pressure who were taking ACEi/ARB medications were 0.67 times less likely to have a critical or fatal outcome than those not taking these medications, according to the study.