India on Monday used a global health meeting in Geneva as a platform to convey its “disappointment” over WHO’s mortality assessment exercise that has estimated India’s all-caus...

Now, all those above 18 who have completed nine months after the second dose are eligible for the precaution jab. The health ministry had received representations seeking the precaution dose for those...

India’s drug regulatory authority has approved two Covid-19 vaccines — Covaxin and Corbevax — for vaccinating children aged between 5 and 12 years, Union health minister Mansukh Mand...

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday evening inaugurated the Shri Jagannath Medical College in the holy town of Puri, about 67km from here. Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya attended the ina...

There is a Christian version of the oath with an invocation to “God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” instead of Apollo and his kin. Sometimes it is printed in the form of a cross. Ther...

With the conclusion of the Assembly polls in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, the Centre plans to resume publishing the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Covid-19 vaccination certific...

With the administration of more than 53.61 lakh vaccine doses in a span of 24 hours, India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded 170.87 crore (1,70,87,06,705), according to provisional repo...

With reopening of schools raising concern over the safety of children below 15 years of age, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said in the Rajya Sabha that the government will take a decisi...

India is implementing the largest inoculation drive globally where annually over 3 crore pregnant women and 2.6 crore children are covered through the Universal Immunisation Programme, Union Health Mi...

According to Union Health Ministry officials, 34.90 lakh eligible adolescents have been given the second dose. With the administration of more than 55 lakh vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, India&#...