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Topic: CoWIN app

Govt says CoWIN breach reports ‘mischievous in nature’, asserts portal is ‘completely safe’

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar says Telegram bot was not accessing CoWIN database directly, but may be showing information from 'previously stolen data'.

With polls coming up, only 40% adults in Punjab are fully vaccinated, lowest in India

National average on 27 December was 62 per cent. ‘Vaccine indifference’, strike by healthcare staff cited as reasons for pace of vaccination in Punjab.

India offering CoWIN as technology tool to be used for greater public good, says Vardhan

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said India is inching closer to administering 36 crore doses of Covid vaccine, a feat achieved in less than 6 months since the launch of vaccination drive.

CoWIN being made open source, will be available to all countries soon, says PM Modi

While addressing the CoWIN Global Conclave, PM Modi asserted that India has been committed to sharing its expertise and resources with the global community in combating Covid.

Over 50 countries interested in having CoWIN-like system, says R S Sharma

The chairman of the empowered group for Covid-19 vaccine administration said PM Modi has directed officials to create an open source version of the platform and give it free of cost.

Govt dismisses claims of CoWIN system hack, says rumours of data leak are ‘baseless’

We continue to take appropriate steps as are necessary, from time to time, to ensure that the data of the people is safe with CoWIN, the health ministry said.

On-site Covid vaccine registration for 18-44 age group now enabled on CoWin

Union health ministry announced the feature Monday, saying it is being enabled only for govt Covid Vaccination Centers (CVCs), and is not present for private CVCs yet.

Young India wants Covid vaccines, but CoWIN just won’t let us win

Booked slots on CoWIN are a problem of the ‘announce-now, plan-later’ method that India loves so much. Millennials desperately want some of that vaccine maitri.

Struggling to find an open Covid vaccination slot on CoWin? Get help from these websites, apps

As people struggle to find slots at Covid vaccination centres, many software developers and tech companies are providing real-time updates to help people book appointments.

CoWIN to introduce 4-digit security code from 8 May to reduce errors on vaccination status

The health ministry said in some instances citizens who booked an appointment for vaccination but didn't go on the scheduled date received an SMS that a dose had been administered to them.

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India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

How Op Mahadev unfolded: A day-by-day account of how the net closed in on Pahalgam terrorists

New Delhi: The killing of the three LeT terrorists behind the Pahalgam massacre was the culmination of an operation that started immediately after the...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.