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In Delhi, Covaxin: 6 state hospitals; Covishield: 42 others

Vaccine private-govt split worries doctors

The nationwide Covid-19 vaccination drive starts on Saturday amid speculation among some doctors whether the home-grown vaccine, which is yet to prove its efficacy, is being sent to public institutions that have fewer opportunities to question the decision. The doctors who have questioned the inclusion of the home-grown Covaxin from Bharat Biotech alongside the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine at the start of the inoculation campaign say the proposed split of the two vaccines in Delhi has amplified their concerns. Six government...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched India's COVID-19 vaccination drive while reassuring the country that emergency use authorisation was given to two ma...

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Temple is meeting the temporal in Bengal as the Sangh parivar launched on Friday a fundraising drive for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. Using the donation ...
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Ayodhya: Kovind first to donate

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday donated Rs 500,100 towards the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. The temple is to come up at the same spot...

A nurse administers the first shot of Covid-19 vaccine, after the launch of Covid-19 vaccination drive by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the AIIMS in New Delhi, Saturday

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Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan displays a Covishield vaccine vial, at AIIMS in New Delhi on Saturday.

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Prime Minister Mark Rutte handed in his resignation and that of his entire Cabinet to King Willem-Alexander van Oranje, on Friday.

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Kolkata Literary Meet goes online

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In the third week of January 2020 — exactly a year ago — I was in New Delhi, working in the collections of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. I first discovered the archival riches of ...
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There are some people, including a few doctors I know, who are saying they don’t want to take the Covid vaccine in the first phase fearing adverse reactions. But as health-care workers, we should know that most drugs, including some of the commonest ones like paracetamol and vitamin pills, can trigger adverse effects. But does that stop us from having these medicines?
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Benchmark bond yields jumped to their highest in four weeks on Friday as the RBI mopped up Rs 2 lakh crore through a variable rate reverse repo auction even as its silence on an open market operation ...
Markets read the release as an indication that the RBI was looking to roll back the massive cash surplus in the banking system, despite its reiteration that it would ensure availability of ample liquidity.
A bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued a notice to the finance ministry and the banking regulator seeking their stand on the plea, which has claimed that such lending platforms charge very high interest rates on the loans given by them.

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“The sharp rise in merchandise trade deficit to a 25-month high of $15.4 billion in December 2020 was driven by the surge in non-oil imports that was exaggerated by pent-up demand. In an encouraging sign, the growth in non-oil exports improved to 5.6 per cent in the quarter-ending month, reversing the dips seen in the previous two months,” said Aditi Nayar, principal economist, Icra.
HCL Tech’s revenue grew 6.4 per cent to Rs 19,302 crore in the quarter under review, from Rs 18,135 crore in the year-ago period (according to US GAAP).
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  Rohit Sharma's indiscreet shot selection pegged India back after rookie bowling attack restricted Australia to 369 on a rain-curtailed second day of the fourth Test on Saturday. With heav...
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