Covid Vaccine News Live: Mamata Banerjee requests PM to help Bengal procure

Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Bill, 2021 passed by the Legislative Assembly by voice vote

Bengal: BJP workers clash with security personnel in Barrackpore after their ‘Parivartan Yatra’ was allegedly stopped by the personnel

Keeping our African commitment. Ghana now receives Made in India vaccines: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

Sensex rises 1,030 points to close at 50,782 in extended trading session; Nifty settles at 14,982

AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria on Covid vaccines

Germany seizes 16 tonnes of cocaine in Europe’s biggest haul

Uday Kotak welcomes govt’s move to lift embargo on grant of Govt business to private banks

Govt lifts embargo on private sector banks for conduct of Govt-related banking transactions

Hungary starts using Chinese vaccine in EU first: PM

Punjab Cabinet approves a new EWS Policy

It paves the way for construction of more than 25,000 houses for the economically weaker sections, with developers and authorities required to develop 5% of project area for EWS housing: State government

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi, seeking his help in procurement of COVID-19 vaccines

Sensex rises over 900 points to trade near 50,680

Nifty rises over 250 points to trade near 14,950

AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria on new coronavirus strain

It doesn’t seem that the strain is more infectious or causing mortality or vaccine will not work but we need to study it more aggressively &look at it more closely. We shouldn’t miss out on strains which is more infectious

Uttarakhand government orders reopening of state universities and degree colleges from March 1

NSE re-opens after trading halt due to technical issue; markets to close at 5 pm today

Vaccines of both Bharat Biotech & Serum Institute are not very costly. I’m sure everyone would be able to afford it. It will allow people to come and get vaccinated the way they feel comfortable. Lot of vaccine hesitancy will be taken care of by this

– AIIIMS Director Randeep Guleria

Charges would be to just cover overheads which pvt sectors would need, some of which may include cost of syringes & human resource: AIIMS Director

Like it was done for testing where charges were fixed to ensure that those aren’t misused & private sector also doesn’t suffer loss: AIIMS Director

No ‘mixopathy’, ayurvedic doctors also trained to perform surgeries: Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik

Rupee surges 11 paise to close at 72.35 (provisional) against US dollar

Former Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy cautions voters against supporting BJP, allies in Assembly polls

He alleged that these parties will have no qualms about merging the Union territory with Tamil Nadu.

BSE equity and equity derivatives market will remain open till 5:00 pm today

We’re confident that production worth Rs 10 lakh crores will happen & around 8 lakhs-9 lakhs of direct & indirect jobs will be created under PLI scheme in next 5 yrs. Scheme…