Day: January 12, 2021

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Cold wave, thick fog in parts of UP

7:27 pm January 12, 2021

Lucknow: Cold to severe cold conditions prevailed over parts of Uttar Pradesh with Kanpur being the coldest city in the state where the mercury dipped to 4.4 degrees Celsius, the meteorological department said. It said a dense fog to very dense fog enveloped isolated places in the state. State capital Lucknow recorded a minimum temperature […]

Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin for 45-plus age group: Atishi

Bharat Biotech set to dispatch first consignment of Covaxin

2:55 pm January 12, 2021

Hyderabad : Bharat Biotech, which has received Emergency Use Authorisation approval from the Drug Controller General of India for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin,is set to dispatch it from the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Tuesday evening, a senior official of the Airports cargo division said. ”Today we have received the first consignment of vaccines […]

IIT Guwahati researchers find new clues to how and why stars die

2:49 pm January 12, 2021

New Delhi : Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, claim to have found important clues to understand the death of massive stars and have also revealed the problems with the existing models. The research in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany, and Northwestern University, USA, has also been published in international journal Physical Review Letters (PRL). ”Supernovae — the […]

IndiGo plans to add flights connecting 7 more cities

2:45 pm January 12, 2021

New Delhi: IndiGo said on Tuesday it plans to start new flights connecting Leh, Darbhanga, Agra, Kurnool, Bareilly, Durgapur and Rajkot from February onwards. “The airline plans to start flights connecting Leh and Darbhanga in February, followed by Kurnool and Agra in March, Bareilly and Durgapur in April and Rajkot in May 2021,” IndiGo said in […]

GoAir begins vaccine delivery; Operates flight to Chennai from Pune containing 70,800 vials

2:27 pm January 12, 2021

Mumbai: Budget carrier GoAir has operated a flight to Chennai from Pune, containing 70,800 vials of COVID-19 vaccines as the much-awaited roll out of the vaccine commenced on Tuesday. The flight took off for Chennai from Pune early morning on Tuesday, carrying 70,800 vials (7,08,000 doses) of the vaccine, according to GoAir. ”We at GoAir are overwhelmed with the kind of responsibility bestowed upon us to […]