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No applications of doctors in response to recruiting ad of Charaka Covid-19 hospital

Medical Education Minister Dr Sudhakar and BBMP officials had launched a special hospital dedicated to Covid-19 treatment on Broadway Road in Shivajinagar with 100 bed capacity in the final week of August. Charaka Covid-19 hospital is being prepared, sponsored by Infosys Foundation. However, the hospital is facing a major set-back, as no doctors are applying…

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PM Modi addresses the centenary convocation at Mysore University

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the centenary convocation virtually held for University of Mysore on Monday. PM Modi commenced his address by giving his greetings on the on-going Dasara festivities in Mysuru and that there is similar excitement regarding the celebrations despite the restrictions induced by Covid-19. Modi expressed the anguish that intervened the festivities’…

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ED interrogates Farooq Abdullah regarding J&K Cricket Association scam

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogated the ex-Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Farooq Abdullah who held the post of regional National Conference (NC) president on Monday regarding alleged involvement in multi-million J&K Cricket Association scam. According to the sources, Abdullah was quizzed at Rajbagh’s office located in Srinagar over involvement with alleged mishandling of…

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Labour bureau scheduled to publish new working-class inflation index for Oct 21

The labour bureau will officially reveal on October 21, Wednesday, a new series pertaining to consumer price index for the industrial workers (CPI-IW), which is used to calibrate the inflation parameters for calculating Dearness allowance (DA) for the government staff employees, the daily compensation for industrial workers and dearness relief for pensioners, an official stated….

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Harsh Vardhan: Community transmission of Covid-19 restrained to specific districts

Union Health Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan accepted on Sunday that community transmission of Coronavirus was incident in some specific districts in a limited number of states in the country. While addressing the weekly programme on social media called Sunday Saamvaad, he said, “But this is not happening countrywide..” “Community transmission has been reported in different…

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China’s vaccine candidate for Covid-19 turns out safe in clinical trials

China’s potential Covid-19 vaccine candidate BBIP-CorV, which was under human trial observations, has been proven to be safe with the anticipated antibody immune responses, according to Chinese researchers. From the time period between April 29 to July 30, the vaccine was under the combined early and mid-stage clinical trials. The potential vaccine is being developed…

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