London: The UK population may already have developed sufficient levels of herd immunity required to prevent a feared second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, notes an Oxford University study involving Indian-origin academic Professor Sunetra Gupta.

Chandigarh: The human trial of Bharat Biotech's anti-COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin began at Rohtak's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij tweeted.

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Youth Congress President and Congress candidate from DK in 2019 Lok Sabha, Election Mithun Rai on Friday tested positive for Coronavirus.

Lukung(Ladakh): India is not a weak country and no power in the world can touch even an inch of its land, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday as he visited Ladakh to carry out a comprehensive review of the security scenario in the wake of the border standoff with China.

New Delhi: Chartered Accountant (CA) exams scheduled to be held in May, will now begin on November 1. The CA exam regulator, ICAI, has released the exam time table. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) had postponed the CA exam due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the new exam schedule, ICAI has said that it will hold the exam on the scheduled dates “provided that sufficient number of candidates offer themselves to appear from each centre.”

Bengaluru: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the union government to pay urgent attention to the situation in flood devastated Assam and offer maximum aid to the state.

New Delhi: People can continue to visit the famous Tirumala Tirupati Balaji temple, the top official of the temple's board has said amid a controversy over priests and employees getting infected with the highly contagious coronavirus. The temple's board decided to re-open it on June 11, in line with the centre's "Unlock" plans to handhold the country out of the pandemic in phases.

Jaipur: The Rajasthan Police registered two FIRs on Friday on a complaint lodged by the Congress over the alleged conspiracy to topple the Ashok Gehlot government through horse trading of MLAs.