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BHOPAL: In a bid to make Madhya Pradesh energy self-reliant, the government will install solar energy panels at wind power plant sites to provide solar energy during daytime and wind power in the nights. Energy Minister Hardeep Singh…

Stockholm, Feb 3   The coronavirus variant first detected in UK is gaining a foothold in Sweden, where it was identified in approximately 11 per cent of 2,200 positive Covid-19 tests, the Public Health Agency of Sweden said in a press…

Geneva , February 2  The global decrease in the number of new emerging cases of COVID-19 suggests that the virus can be controlled regardless of its mutations, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom…

Washington, Feb. 2 (Sputnik) - SpaceX has announced it will launch its first all-civilian mission Inspiration4 to orbit Earth no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year. "I want to use this moment to bring humanity together, fuel…

Shreya Mehta from Dehradun knows how to turn a challenge into an opportunity. Before the lockdown, she worked at a school in Uttarakhand, which shut. This was followed by a pay-cut that she wasn’t prepared for. What she was prepared for was…

Bengaluru (Karnataka) , January 31  The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Administrator Gaurav Gupta and Commissioner Manjunatha Prasad jointly flagged off the campaign against leprosy, under BBMP limits, called "The final fight…

Moscow, Jan 31 (Sputnik) - Bolivia expects to get nearly one million doses of coronavirus vaccines next month, Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced. "We announce to the Bolivian people that in February almost one million doses of…

New York, Jan 30   United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine here, according to a report published on the UN official website. The UN chief said on Twitter that he was fortunate…

Brussels , January 30  The European Commission on Friday granted a conditional marketing authorisation (CMA) for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. "Today, the European Commission has…

Washington , January 27   Taking cannabidiol, a chemical in the cannabis Sativa plant, isn't an effective way to reduce your dependence on cocaine, researchers at the CHUM Research Centre find. In North America, close to 5.5 million…

NOIDA, India, Jan. 27 (PRNewswire)- Successive Technologies, an India-based next-gen technology services company has been awarded Gold Partner status by Umbraco. This is the highest level of partnership level and allows Successive to access…

MUMBAI: People who have arrived in Mumbai from the UK in the last one month will be traced by the BMC in view of a new strain of the coronavirus being detected in the European country, a senior civic official said on Wednesday. The…

PARIS: More than 40 countries are still banning or restricting travel from Britain in a bid to contain a new strain of the coronavirus believed to spread faster. Scotland had already closed its border with the rest of the United Kingdom…

PARIS: Not once in the long months since the pandemic struck has 74-year-old Jean-Francois been able to leave his nursing home in eastern France to visit his daughter or sister. In fact, the retired metal worker thinks it's been two…

Washington , December 24: More than one million Americans have received the first of the two doses of the coronavirus vaccine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said. "The United States…

Pune (Maharashtra) , December 23  : Mutant strain of coronavirus found in the United Kingdom was not seen in the samples tested from various parts of India, Dr Samiran Panda, director of ICMR-National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) said on…

NEW DELHI: Passengers coming from the UK should undergo RT-PCR test and isolated in a separate unit of an institutional facility if found positive, stated the Health Ministry's standard operating procedure issued on Tuesday in view of the…