New Delhi

After multiple failed attempts, the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) had in December invited bids for strategic sale, along with transfer of management control, of helicopter service provider Pawan Hans.

Sources said India's health secretary will chair the event and each country has been invited to participate in one-plus-one format — health secretary and head of technical team in-charge of COVID-19 management.

India is unlikely to add to the unprecedented nine who have made the cut for the Tokyo Games in July-August.

A Delhi court has issued non-bailable warrants against Pune-based engineer Shantanu Muluk and Mumbai lawyer-activist Nikita Jacob in a case related to a toolkit shared by teen activist Greta Thunberg.

The Union Health Ministry said that 27 people had died post receiving the vaccination so far, with three deaths reported in the last 24 hours. However, no case if serious or severe adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) or death has been attributable...

He also said the country's economy is expected to grow at 15.5 per cent in nominal terms in 202122 and contract 12 per cent depending on what the inflation actually might be for the year ending March 2021.

The official said that the agency took over the case relating to hoisting of Khalistani flag by the SFJ cadres at Deputy Commissioner Office Complex in Punjab's Moga on September 5 last year.

Mountaineer Narender Singh Yadav, who claimed to have conquered Mount Everest and was recommended for the Tenzing Norgay Award last year, had submitted fake documents and will not be bestowed with the honour, Sports Ministry sources said on Thursday.

The Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of protesting farmer unions, made it clear that it will not call off the ongoing protest until its demands to repeal the laws and bring legal guarantee for minimum support price on their crops are met.

The central agency has been probing the Popular Front of India (PFI), formed in 2006 in Kerala and headquartered in Delhi, since 2018.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Wednesday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emotional farewell speech for Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad an "artfully crafted performance". The Prime Minister had turned emotional several times in Rajya Sabha on...

The Lok Sabha has witnessing repeated disruptions over the last few days with the Opposition demanding a discussion on the three new agri sector laws that farmers have been protesting against since November last year.

She repeated the government's stance on Bitcoin and said it was announced in the Budget Speech for 2018-19 that it does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender or coins and will take all measures to eliminate use of these crypto-assets in financing ill...

The app was launched 10 months ago and won the Aatmanirbhar App Challenge organised by the Indian government.

Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat said the police, SDRF, Army and ITBP teams “are already doing their best to save lives of the workers at both the construction sites, affected by the disaster.”

In this week's column, the queries have been answered by Dr Samiran Panda, Head of Epidemiology and Communicable diseases division, ICMR. Panda has addressed questions on how to deal with mental health issues and pregnancy during vaccination.