By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Aiming at a stiff vaccination target, the government has booked 30 crore doses of Hyderabad-based Biological-E’s Covid vaccine, which is still in clinical trials. The Health Ministry will make an advance payment of ₹ 1,500 crores to the company for what will be the second made-in-India vaccine to be used […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the government’s new digital rules that take effect today, saying these would compel it to break privacy protections to users. The Facebook-owned messaging service filed its petition on Tuesday against the rules that will require it to “trace” the […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands The man in the WhatsApp video says he has seen it work himself: A few drops of lemon juice in the nose will cure COVID-19. If you practice what I am about to say with faith, you will be free of corona in five seconds, says the man, dressed in […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Internet giant Google said it has so far raised $4.6 million (Rs 33 crore) through an internal donation campaign for COVID-19 relief in India. The funds raised will go to nonprofit organizations, including GiveIndia, Charities Aid Foundation India, GOONJ, and United Way of Mumbai, Google said in a blog post. Google has updated Search, […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Prices of petrol and diesel were hiked for the second consecutive day on May 5 after a long hiatus. Petrol price in Delhi was hiked by 19 paise, taking it to Rs 90.74 per litre as compared to Rs 90.55 per litre on May 4. Diesel price in the national capital […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands All citizens above the age of 18 years can register themselves for getting Covid-19 vaccine jabs starting 4 pm today as the government gears up to launch the third phase of the vaccination drive from 1 May. “Registration for 18 plus to begin on http://cowin.gov.in, Aarogya Setu App & UMANG […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands In view of the prevailing COVID-19 crisis in the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (April 22) canceled his visit to poll-bound West Bengal and said that he will chair high-level meetings to review the situation. Informing through a tweet, the PM said that he will chair high-level meetings […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Madhya Pradesh’s largest COVID-19 care centre has come up in Indore with various items like clothes for patients, beddings and oxygen machines worth Rs 5 crore donated by people, a senior state official said. The centre, set up within a fortnight, is equipped with beds made out of cardboard which […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at AIIMS here and asked those eligible for the shot to take it soon to defeat the virus. He had taken his first jab on March 1 at the hospital. “Got my second dose of the COVID-19 […]
By Administrator_ India Capital Sands Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the ‘Maitri Setu’ — a bridge built over the Feni River — between India and Bangladesh on March 9. The prime minister will inaugurate the bridge at 12.00 pm via video conferencing, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement. The 1.9-kilometer bridge […]
