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The Delhi Police has arrested four persons from three states in connection with the Indian Council of Medical Research data leak case, The Indian Express reported on Monday. This came over two months after the central intelligence agencies found that personal details, including Aadhaar and passport records, of over ...

The ICMR noted that about half of all patients admitted with severe acute respiratory infections and patients walking into clinics were found to be afflicted with Influenza A H3N2. Image for representation | Photo Credit: Murali Kumar K. Rising cases of cough and fever linked to Influenza subtype A ...

The active cases comprise 0.33 per cent of the total infections. The active cases comprise 0.33 per cent of the total infections. India logged a single day rise of 20,408 new coronavirusinfections, pushing India's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,40,00,138, as the active cases declined to 1,43,384, the ...

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Sunday indicated that the banking regulator will ring in sweeping regulatory changes to reform urban co-operative banks that have been plagued by a spate of failures, and warned people against parking their savings in banks offering high returns.The S-400 missile ...

It was a historic day for the nation as Neeraj Chopra’s javelin pierced the Tokyo night sky to herald a new dawn for Indian sports. With this, India ended its campaign at the XXXII Olympiad with seven medals – the country’s best performance at the Summer Games.Superstar Bajrang Punia ...

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is “still raging” in the country and is far from over, Lav Aggarwal joint secretary, Health Ministry, told a press conference on Tuesday. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala have registered a rise in the ...

The analysis of breakthrough cases is a clear indication that vaccines are the best bet to reduce severity and fatalities among Covid-19 patients.Hyderabad: Hospitalisation due to severe infection and mortality among individuals who have received Covid vaccines is very less, a demographic analysis of breakthrough Covid-19 infections taken up ...

New Delhi: The Delta variant of SARS-COV-2 was behind majority of clinical cases of breakthrough infection of COVID-19 but only 9.8 per cent cases required hospitalisation and fatality was observed in only 0.4 per cent cases, according to a new ICMR study.Breakthrough infection is if one gets infected even ...

During his interaction over videoconferences was with 46 District Magistrates across eight States on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on the need to remove vaccine hesitancy and said that the Central government was making every effort that a fortnightly supply schedule for vaccines to various States be provided ...

Balram Bhargava says more Rapid Antigen Tests will be conducted from now on. The national COVID-19 positivity rate stood at 21% and 310 of the 734 districts had reported positivity greater than or equal to the national average, Balram Bhargava, Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), said on ...