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DGCA launches probe as Air India Delhi-Moscow flight returns after pilot f
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Aviation regulator Director-General of Aviation (DGCA) has launched an investigation into a "serious lapse" after an Air India flight from Delhi to Moscow on Saturday returned midway after its pilot was found COVID-19 infected.
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Questions raised over delay in implementation of grant of organised servic
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Director-General (DG) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) AP Maheshwari on Friday faced questions over the delay in implementation of grant of organised service status to cadre officers of the paramilitary force.
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Halting hydroxychloroquine trials based on faulty Lancet study is 'knee je
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Director-General Shekhar Mande, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) Delhi Director Anurag Agarwal and Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) Chennai Director Rajeev Karandikar have written to
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UP registers 59,819 cases under section 188 of IPC during lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 29 (ANI): As the country continues to battle COVID-19, Uttar Pradesh Police have registered 59,819 cases registered under Section 188 of IPC and 659 cases under Essential Commodities (EC) Act, 1955 during the lockdown, Director General of Police (DGP), Ut
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Monsoon likely to hit Kerala on June 1: IMD
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Anand Sharma, Deputy Director-General, India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said that the monsoon is likely to hit Kerala on June 1.
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Uttarakhand Police to register FIR against those spreading rumours about f
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 28 (ANI): An FIR is being registered against people, who are spreading rumours about fire in the forests of Uttarakhand, and stringent legal action will be taken against them, said Ashok Kumar, Director General (law and order) on Wednesday.
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Quick, cheap RT-Lamp COVID-19 test will cost up to Rs 200, take less than
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed an MoU with Reliance to develop a new RT-LAMP COVID-19 diagnostic kit, which is cheap and gives a quick result, said Director-General Dr Shekhar C Mande on Wednesday.
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Sandip Mukund Pradhan gets two-year extension as DG, SAI
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): Sandip Mukund Pradhan, the Director-General of Sports Authority of India (SAI) has been given an extension for his central deputation tenure.
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Trust ICMR's judgement on hydroxychloroquine in covid treatment, says CSIR
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Shekher Mande, on Wednesday said the Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) conclusion of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) having no major side-effects in the treatment of Covid-inf
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Lancet study is not randomised clinical trial, only analysis of hospital r
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 27 (ANI): Dismissing the reports of health risks from Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as per simmering reports cited by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Shekher Mande, Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, said on Wednesday t
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Shramik Express carrying 1,400 passengers departs for North-East states fr
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Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 27 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Gautam Sawang on Tuesday flagged off a Shramik Express for North-East states from Vijayawada, carrying 1,400 passengers.
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Decided not to deny health workers HCQ based on risk-benefit analysis: ICM
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Noting that a lot of drugs are being repurposed for treatment of COVID-19, ICMR Director-General Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said that prophylactic use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for health care workers had been recommended on the basis of risk-benefit a
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