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A 90-year-old woman from Ireland named Margaret Keenan on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as part of the mass vaccination programme being rolled out across the UK. ....

Moderate to heavy snow and rain lashed Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday as the weather office forecast improvement from Thursday onwards. ....

Four civilians were injured on Wednesday in a grenade attack by militants in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. ....

Three terrorists were killed in a gunfight between the terrorists and the security forces on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district even as search operations were continuing in the area, officials said. ....

Envoys of more than 60 countries on Wednesday visited a facility of Bharat Biotech which is developing Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine for coronavirus. ....

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its latest report has highlighted Karnataka governments' successive failure in running the emergency medical services (EMS) under the 108 ambulance services. ....

The number of cases of the mysterious illness, in Andhra Pradesh's West Godavari district headquarters Eluru reached 593, but active cases had declined to 46 on Wednesday evening. ....

The fifth phase of DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir recorded 9.46 per cent polling across different constituencies spread over several districts in the first two hours on Thursday, officials said. ....

With 29,398 new coronavirus infections and 414 deaths in the past 24 hours, India's overall tally stood at 97,96,770 on Friday, while the death toll touched 1,42,186, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. ....

India's Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat on Friday said the like-minded partners need to build "dissuasive deterrence" against China's attempts at establishing its hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region. ....