Moscow, Jan 18 (Sputnik) At least eight members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a Taliban attack in the country''s northern province of Baghlan, TOLOnews reported on Monday, citing local and security sources.
Bengaluru, Jan 18 (UNI) Immuneel Therapeutics Private Limited (Immuneel) on Monday announced setting up of the country''s first Integrated Cell Therapy Development and Manufacturing Facility here in Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City.
Hyderabad, Jan 18 (UNI) The Dalit Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) will set up 30 more business facilitation centres across the country by April 14,2021, said Ravi Kumar Narra, the newly elected National Working President for DICCI, here on Monday.
Kolkata, Jan 18 (UNI) Vidyamandir Classes, a premier National institute for JEE and NEET preparation is all set to conduct National Admission Test (NAT) online on 7th February 2021 for academic session 2021-22.
BANGKOK, Jan 18 (Sputnik) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced on social networks that he will be the first person in his country to take China''s Sinopharm vaccine against COVID-19, as he believes this move will boost confidence.
Panaji, Jan 17 (UNI) Veteran film director and author from Bangladesh Tanvir Mokammel on Sunday expressed happiness over Bangladesh being country focus in International Film Festival of India (IFFI) this year.
Tokyo, Jan 17 (Sputnik) Japanese authorities are still planning to hold the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo in 2021, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Sunday.
New Delhi, Jan 17 (UNI) More cases of Avian Influenza have been confirmed in several districts of the country including Latur, Parbhani, Nanded, Pune, Solapur, Yavatmal, Ahmednagar, Beed and Raigad districts of Maharashtra.
Kolkata, Jan 16 (UNI) West Bengal on Saturday joined the rest of the country in the largest vaccination drive in the world against COVID-19 with a doctor of a private hospital receiving the first shot.
Ranchi, Jan 16 (UNI) Stating that the state government has completed all the necessary preparations for the vaccination drive Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday said that he hopes that the coronavirus vaccine will be a boon for the country.
Hyderabad, Jan 16 (UNI) Telangana Governor Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday said that beginning of the vaccination is the proudest moment for the country.
New Delhi, Jan 16 (UNI) On the first day of COVID-19 vaccination drive, 15,158 people tested positive in a day, surging the caseload to 1,05,42,841.
Shimla, Jan 14 (UNI) The Great Himalayan National Park and Tirthan Wildlife Sanctuary have been ranked as the best managed protected areas in the entire country.
Bengaluru, Jan 14 (UNI) Karnataka Minister for Agriculture B C Patil on Thursday said that he wants the State Seed Corporation to become a model in the country.
Sagar Island (West Bengal), Jan 14 (UNI) Thousands of devotees from all across the country on Thursday took a holy dip in Ganga Sagar at the confluence of the Ganga and Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti amid strict COVID-19 health safety protocol.
Cairo, Jan 13 (Sputnik) The Sudanese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that an Ethiopian military aircraft violated the country’s airspace and warned of possible "disastrous consequences" in the border region.
Moscow, Jan 13 (Sputnik) The United Kingdom is currently constrained by the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses available despite the rollout of the country''s mass immunization campaign, Wei Shen Lim, the chair of the Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said on Wednesday.
Islamabad, Jan 12 (UNI)Pakistan Army has rejected the opposition’s criticism of its meddling in the country''s political affairs and said there is no reason for the opposition alliance — Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — to march to Rawalpindi, where the military headquarters are located.
Srinagar, Jan 12 (UNI) The Kashmir valley remained cut off from the rest of the country for the second successive day on Tuesday due to closure of the 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway after retaining wall of a bridge in Ramban collapsed on Sunday evening.
Havana, Jan 12 (Sputnik) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla called the US decision to re-include the country in the list of sponsors of terrorism hypocritical and cynical and accused Washington of political opportunism.
Mexico City, January 12 (Sputnik) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla called the US decision to re-include the country in the list of sponsors of terrorism hypocritical and cynical and accused Washington of political opportunism.
Moscow, Jan 11 (Sputnik) France has detected 180 active clusters of the pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus since November 2020, Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie told France Bleu broadcaster on Monday.
Madrid, Jan 10 (Sputnik) Three people have died in Spain as a result of the storm Filomena, which unleashed the heaviest snowfall on the Iberian peninsula in 50 years and brought Madrid to a standstill, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Saturday.
Mysuru, Jan 9 (UNI) Dr C S Ashwathnarayan, Deputy Chief Minister and Higher Education Minister on Saturday said that the New Education Policy 2020 is a guide for the transformation of the education system of India.
Hyderabad, Jan 7 (UNI) As part of phase-2 of expansion, Ather Energy, India’s first intelligent electric scooter manufacturer, on Thursday announced the launching of the Ather 450X in 16 additional cities - Mysore, Hubli, Jaipur, Indore, Panaji, Bhubaneshwar, Nasik, Surat, Chandigarh, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Nagpur, Noida, Lucknow and Siliguri in the country.
New Delhi, Jan 7 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Dedicated Freight Corridors will form the basis of development of new growth centers and growth points in different cities of the country.
Kolkata, Jan 06 (UNI) It is nearly one year since Covid-19 was announced, and already six Covid vaccines have been approved on Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
Moscow, Jan 6 (Sputnik) - The Netherlands on Wednesday became the last European country to roll out its COVID-19 vaccination campaign, having inoculated a nursing home worker, according to a broadcast by the NOS TV channel.
Jamshedpur, Jan 5 (UNI) A criminal was arrested from Bagbeda police station area of the East Singhbhum district along with a country made pistol and two live cartridges.
Srinagar, Jan 5 (UNI) The Kashmir valley remained cut off from the rest of the country for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as the 270-kms-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed due to accumulation of snow, landslides, shooting stones and mudslide at several places.
Kolkata, Jan 4 (UNI) Union Minister of State for Finance & CorporateAffairs Anurag Thakur after visiting ailing Sourav Gangulyon Monday said the BCCI president would soon return to his office andserve Bengal as well as the country as the former skipperhad seen many ups and downs in his playing career.
Srinagar, Jan 4 (UNI) The Kashmir valley remained cut off from the rest of the country for the second consecutive day on Monday following closure of the 270-km-long Srinagar-Jammu national highway due to snowfall, landslides, shooting stone and mudslide at several places.
Moscow, Jan 2 (Sputnik) More than 800,000 people in Russia have already been inoculated against COVID-19 while some 1.5 million doses have been distributed across Russia, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Saturday.
Moscow, Jan 2 (Sputnik) Ukrainian pharmaceutical firm Biolik has filed paperwork with the country''s Health Ministry to register Russia-developed COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, opposition lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk said Saturday.
Lucknow, Jan 2 (UNI) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday made a controversial statement claiming that there is no Corona in the country and BJP was making the hue and cry just to frighten the opposition and the people.
New Delhi, Jan 2 (UNI) Kurukshetra in Haryana has become the 27th ''Har Ghar Jal'' district of country, that is every family in rural area of this district has assured tap water supply in home also ensuring ''no one is left out'' in any village.
Lucknow, Jan 1 (UNI) Economic activity worldwide had come to a grinding halt due to the lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus as a result of which the export business of the country and Uttar Pradesh also declined during the first eight months of the current financial year between April-November 2020.
Moscow, Dec 31 (Sputnik) Turkish law enforcement officers on Thursday arrested 29 people in several provinces on suspicion of having ties to the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia), including 15 people in Istanbul who were allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on New Year’s Eve, the Anadolu News Agency reported.
Aden, Dec 30 (UNI) A number of explosions rocked the airport in Yemen''s port city of Aden on Wednesday soon after a plane carrying the country''s new government arrived from Saudi Arabia.
Jaipur, Dec 30 (UNI) Ace Indian boxer Vikas Krishan (69kg), who is all set to feature in the third Olympics of his life in Tokyo, has said that his aim is to win the gold medal for the country and show the world that boxing is an art.
New Delhi, Dec 30 (UNI) With an aim to increase famers’ income in the country, the Union Cabinet under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the modified the scheme to enhance ethanol distillation capacity in the country.
Chatra, Dec 30 (UNI) Police have arrested two members of interstate arms smuggling gang from Huntarganj Police Station area of this district along with arms and explosives.
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Moscow, Dec 29 (Sputnik) The Russian oil sector should not be worried about the OPEC+ deal on the reduction of oil output, as many companies have already started to increase production and export volumes, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday.
Hyderabad, Dec 29 (UNI) Year 2020 was a tough year for the real estate sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, said Dhruv Agarwala, Group CEO of Housing.com, Makaan.com and Proptiger.com.
New Delhi, Dec 28 (UNI) Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday launched India''s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV).
Patna, Dec 28 (UNI) Rajya Sabha MP and former Bihar Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi betrayed the farmers by leaving the country just ahead of their dialogue with the union government.
Shimla, Dec 27(UNI) The home-stay model of tourism which is prevalent in Himachal Pradesh needs to be replicated across the country, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Sunday.
Imphal, Dec 27 (UNI) India is aspiring to become the number one nation in the world under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a public reception at Hapta Kangjeibung there today.
Tel Aviv, Dec 25 (UNI) The total number of coronavirus cases in Israel has reached 393,036 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including new 9,651 cases detected over the past two days, as the country is expected to enter the third nationwide lockdown in a row, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
Moscow, Dec 24 (Sputnik) Women''s rights activist Freshta Kohistani has been gunned down in Afghanistan''s northeastern Kapisa province, the country''s interior ministry said Thursday.
Kathmandu, Dec 24(UNI) The Dahal-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on Thursday decided to organise nationwide agitation on December 29 against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli''s decision to recommend the dissolution of the House of Representatives.
Tirumala, Dec 24(UNI) Srivari Sevakulu who have been rendering impeccable services to fellow pilgrims from the past two decades, should also play an active role in Hindu Sanatana Dharma activities taken up by Tirumala tirupati devasthanam (TTD) in different parts of the country, said TTD Chairman YV Subba Reddy.
Nashik, Dec 23 (UNI) In the run-up to forthcoming Gram Panchayat elections, the Rural Police have seized six country-made pistols, 32 live cartridges and 8 magazines from Lasalgaon and other parts of the district and arrested 11 suspected persons in this connection.
Moscow, Dec 23 (Sputnik) Argentina has become the first Latin American country to officially register Russia''s Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus, authorizing its emergency use, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Wednesday.
Sahebganj, Dec 22 (UNI) A team of the RPF on Tuesday recovered huge quantity of country made liqour from Mirzachowki Railway Station which falls under Malda Rail Division in this district.
Lucknow, Dec 22 (UNI) Fesschain mobile company on Tuesday launched the country''s first Blockchain Power Smartphone "Inblock" which will be available online and offline from January 1.
Kolkata, Dec 22 (UNI) ICICI Bank has announced the launch of an online platform for foreign companies looking to establish or expand business in the country.