France is back in business as a tourist destination after opening its borders Wednesday to foreign visitors from the United States, Britain and elsewhere who are inoculated against the coronavirus with vaccines approved by the European Union’s medicines agency. France’s acceptance of only the Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines means tourism is likely to […]
The Punjab government will set up four new government medical colleges at a cost of Rs 1,500 crore in the state, Medical Education and Research Minister O P Soni said here on Wednesday. These colleges will come up at Mohali, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Malerkotla, he said after laying the foundation stone of the boundary wall […]
Young doctors in the country are in a dilemma as they have to juggle between covid duties and preparing for the PG entrance exams to institutions of national importance. AIIMS has announced that INI-CET (Institute of National importance combined entrance test ) will be held on June 16. A group of students has now approached […]
Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it will start a large study to test its COVID-19 vaccine in children below 12 and selected a dosing regime for the trial. The study will enroll up to 4,500 children at more than 90 clinical sites in the United States, Finland, Poland and Spain, the company said. Pfizer’s vaccine […]
India has set itself an ambitious target of vaccinating the entire population by the end of December this year, for which Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest state needs to ramp up its speed of inoculation by almost 9 times. According to a report by Times of India, taking into population of the state as per […]
From biryani to pilau, Pakistan and India’s shared culinary landscape is defined by basmati, a distinctive long-grain rice now at the centre of the latest tussle between the bitter rivals. India has applied for an exclusive trademark that would grant it sole ownership of the basmati title in the European Union, setting off a dispute […]
The United Nations said Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the world of work was four times worse than the 2008 economic crisis. The UN’s International Labour Organization said the pandemic had had a “devastating” and even “cataclysmic” effect, as it sought to tackle an uneven recovery from the coronavirus crisis. The ILO on Monday kicked […]
The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) has extended the last date of submission of class 12 board exams to June 28. The board has released a circular regarding the change of mode of internal assessments and projects conducted by schools and stated that any pending internal exams will held via online mode. “It has been observed […]
