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AstraZeneca has paused global trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine after an unexplained illness in a participant, denting the British drugmaker's shares on Wednesday as the move was seen as dimming prospects for an early rollout.

The emergency effort to expand the Army’s stockpiles of extreme-weather tents, fibre-reinforced plastic igloos and specialised snow-boots are evidence that the Indian Army is preparing to have to maintain dozens of new high-altitude positions through the...

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In his letter to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday, Pradhan said he has received a number of requests from migrant workers in Odisha that train services be started from there so that they can reach their workplaces.

Through the livelihood mission, women will become entrepreneurs, and they will get permanent employment, said the chief minister, adding that every woman will get 240 days of employment in a year.

The division bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice JM Pardiwala issued notice, returnable in a month, to the state government on a plea filed by Mahmadusen Makrani, who was recently booked under the Act.

With two manufacturing facilities based in France and India, GeneStore can deliver over 2 million tests kits per month from its facility in India.

Only schools outside containment zones will be allowed to open. Students, teachers and employees living in containment zones will not be allowed to attend.

Indian Coast Guard ship Abheek was sent with 1,500 kilograms of the dry chemical powder (DCP) for the Sri Lankan Navy at the Trincomalee harbour. A Coast Guard Dornier aircraft was also dispatched to Trincomalee, it added.

Senior advocate Manish Singhvi, appearing for Rajasthan, said the police would re-investigate the case as per the court's direction.

Earlier in May too, the Congress and JD(S) had opposed the move and termed it as an ’insult’ to freedom fighters of the state.

As per data of the Maharashtra government's health department, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Pune district reached 2,03,468 on Monday after 4,165 more people tested positive for the disease.

The court said it has sympathy with the students but it will cause a greater anomaly to let them pursue their undergraduate courses on the strength of illegal certificates.

On the direction of Chhattisgarh High Court Chief Justice P R Ramchandra Menon, who is the patron-in-chief ofCGSLSA, and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, the executive chairman of CGSLSA, efforts were made to find her family.

Police also seized fire arms including, one short weapon(pistol), two hover sacks.The search was still going on, the SP said.

French Defence Minister Florence Parly is expected to visit India to attend the ceremony. Apart from this, bilateral talks are also likely to be held with her Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh on further boosting strategic ties.