National Highways Authority of India takes steps to ensure waiting time should not be more than 10 seconds per vehicle at toll plazas In order to ensure smooth and quick passage of vehicles at the toll plazas, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has issued guidelines to ensure service time of not more than 10...
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COVID-19 Vaccination Update- Day 131
Cumulative Vaccine Coverage exceeds 20.25 Crore More than 1.38 Cr beneficiaries of age group 18-44 Vaccinated so far More than 17.19 lakh Vaccine Doses administered today till 7 pm Posted On: 26 MAY 2021 8:03PM by PIB Delhi The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country exceeded 20.25 Cr (20,25,29,884) as per...
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Indian Coast Guard mobilises its assets to help MV X-Press Pearl off Colombo coast
Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has deployed its ships ‘Vaibhav’ and ‘Vajra’ to render assistance to container carrier ship MV X-Press Pearl on which a major fire broke out about 9 nm from Colombo port, Sri Lanka on May 25, 2021. MV X-Press Pearl, enroute from Hazira to Colombo, is loaded with 1,486 containers carrying about...
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Shri Piyush Goyal Minister for Railways and Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs
Shri Piyush Goyal Minister for Railways and Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution reviews the progress of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail link Project (USBRL) Put in extra efforts in coming months to make up for the loss of time due to Covid 2nd wave- Shri Goyal Work on the remaining portion of the...
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Centre Reviews Progress of Vaccination with States/UTs and stresses need to accelerate its pace
Flexibilities extended to States/UTs on CoWIN to enable Acceleration States/UTs will be provided Adequate Vaccine supply as per consumption Performance of States with respect to vaccination of HCWs, FLWs and other priority population groups and their Vaccine Wastage Highlighted States advised to Focus on Orientation of Rural Healthcare Workers for containment and surveillance activities as...
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Dr Harsh Vardhan participates in a High-Level Panel Discussion
Dr Harsh Vardhan participates in a High-Level Panel Discussion on “Continuity on Health Services during COVID-19 Crisis” “The world has enough knowledge, capacity and even resources available to reverse the tide of NCDs, but collaboration is crucial with shared idealism” As public health leaders, we need to make a renewed commitment to fund public health...
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As Chairman of the Executive Board, WHO, Dr Harsh Vardhan presented details
As Chairman of the Executive Board, WHO, Dr Harsh Vardhan presented details of 147th and 148th sessions of the Executive Board before 74th World Health Assembly Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and the Chairman of WHO Executive Board presented details of the 147th and 148th sessions of EB before the...
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Centre holds meeting with all stake holders to discuss ways and means to ensure availability
Centre holds meeting with all stake holders to discuss ways and means to ensure availability of edible oil at reasonable prices in the country States and business must take all possible steps to soften the edible oil prices Posted On: 24 MAY 2021 6:23PM by PIB Delhi Centre today held a meeting with all stake...
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PM condoles death of Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Dr. Srikumar Banerjee
PM condoles the passing away of Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Dr. Srikumar Banerjee. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the passing away of Former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Dr. Srikumar Banerjee. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “Dr. Srikumar Banerjee will be remembered for his pioneering contributions to...
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Pfizer, Moderna to only deal with Centre Government
Pfizer, Moderna to only deal with Centre Government Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna, which has developed a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine to tackle Covid-19, has declined the Punjab government’s request for a direct supply of its vaccine to the state. After Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh directed officials on May 20 to float global tenders, the...