Spain will let people from non-EU countries who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 enter the country from June 7, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday. The new rule will apply to vaccinated travellers regardless of their country of origin, and most notably from the United States, Sanchez said in a speech at the FITUR […]
While India reported a drop in daily COVID-19 cases in the last 10 days, the total number of coronavirus infections recorded in April and May so far stand 34 per cent higher than the total cases recorded in 2020, according to official data. Till December 31, 2020, the country had reported 1.02 crore infections, and […]
Kolkata: Less than a week after severe cyclonic storm ‘Tauktae’ wreaked havoc in some of the Western states, including Maharashtra and Gujarat, the India Meteorological Department has now warned of another depression building over the North Andaman Sea in the Bay of Bengal. The depression is likely to intensify into a powerful cyclone. As per […]
An Indian-origin Human Sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford has been declared the winner at the end of a Student Union (SU) byelection. Anvee Bhutani, Co-Chair Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality (CRAE) at Oxford SU and President of the Oxford India Society, was in the fray for the byelection for […]
The rural spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, has forced the government to change its testing strategy and make a U-turn on its insistence on the “gold standard” RT-PCR tests in order to control the deadly infection. By the end of June, nearly 60% of all tests done would be Rapid Antigen Tests […]
Bhubaneshwar/Kolkata: After severe cyclonic storm Tauktae ravaged western and southern states, another cyclone — Yaas — is likely to hit the eastern states of Odisha and West Bengal on May 26-27. A low-pressure area is very likely to form over the north Andaman Sea and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal around May 22, the IMD said. Also […]
NEET 2021: The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2021 is scheduled to be held on August 1. With less than 90 days left for the medical entrance exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) is yet to release the application forms. In 2020, the application form had released in December for exam which was scheduled to be held in May […]
Thousands of volunteers will receive a booster COVID-19 vaccine in a new clinical trial launching on Wednesday to study the impact of the third jab to protect against the deadly virus, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced. The Cov-Boost study will trial seven vaccines to provide data on the impact of a third dose […]
