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The Kenyan package included the country’s famed tea and coffee, besides groundnuts. The tea and coffee were meant to provide a 'refreshing break' to healthcare workers.

Bhopal gas tragedy survivors have been hit particularly hard by Covid. NGO claim as many as 50% of Bhopal’s Covid fatalities are gas tragedy survivors, but govt estimates vary.

War of words broke out after Goa minister Mauvin Godinho accused Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan of trying to belittle the western beach state.

The statement follows criticism lobbed at Modi govt over issues such as vaccine shortage and struggles being faced by some states in sourcing vaccines from foreign companies.

With no party or coalition having a majority, Nepal parliament has been dissolved twice since December and the country now faces fresh elections later this year.

Data from China’s National Health Commission state that at least 1 crore Covid vaccine doses are being administered daily, & could reach 2 crore — equivalent to Delhi’s population — if needed.

Drugs have been developed by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. Researchers have detailed findings in a study published in Nature Cell Discovery on 24 May.

To help women facing violence abroad, govt will set up aid centres at missions in 9 countries Sravasti Dasgupta © Provided by The Print New Delhi: The Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), has decided to set up One-Stop Centres (OSC) at 10 Indian missions to help Indian women suffering violence abroad. The OSC scheme was one of the initiatives launched in the wake of the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape-murder to addre...

Chinese space programme was initiated in 1956, when the country’s first rocket research institution was founded. It launched its first rocket into space on 19 July 1964.

Text Size: A+ New Delhi: Projecting that it’s not just India but many other countries that have battled a devastating second Covid wave is among the strategies being devised by the Union information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry to counter the criticism and bad press on the Modi government’s handling of the pandemic, ThePrint has learnt.  This was discussed late last week at a video conference held by the I&B ministry with senior functionaries in the administration, governmen...