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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicHealth Ministry

Topic: Health Ministry

‘Important to keep up momentum’, says PM as 50% of India’s adult population fully vaccinated

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Sunday said that the cumulative Covid vaccine doses administered in the country has exceeded 127.61 crore.

India registers 2,796 deaths as Bihar reconciles Covid data

New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 2,796 fatalities with Bihar carrying out a reconciliation exercise of its Covid data, pushing the country's...

2,116 cases of adverse effects reported among 119 cr Covid vaccine doses, govt tells SC

Percentage of serious or severe AEFIs — including death — continues to be less than 0.01% in case of both Covaxin and Covishield, government says in affidavit filed Monday.

Centre issues fresh advisory to states and UTs over new Covid variant

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said the variant has significantly high number of mutations, and thus, has serious public health implications for the country.

India registers 8,488 new Covid cases, lowest in 538 days

The death toll climbed to 4,65,911 with 249 fresh fatalities while the active Covid caseload has decreased to 4,271, according to the Health Ministry data.

India registers 11,106 new Covid cases, 459 deaths in last 24 hours

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been below 20,000 for 42 straight days and less than 50,000 daily new cases have been reported for 145 consecutive days now.

India registers 11,919 fresh Covid cases, 470 deaths in last 24 hours

Active cases have gone up to 1,28,762, accounting for 0.37% of total caseload and the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.28%, according to the Union health ministry's data.

Govt allows post-mortem after sunset in hospitals with proper infrastructure

Health Ministry said the new procedure promotes organ donation and transplant as organs can be harvested in the stipulated time window after the procedure.

India registers 10,229 Covid cases, 125 new deaths in last 24 hours

Active cases declined to 1,34,096 comprising 0.39% of total infections and the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.26%, the health ministry said.

India registers 13,091 new Covid infections, 340 deaths in last 24 hours

Active cases comprise 0.40% of total infections, the lowest since March 2020 and the national recovery rate was recorded at 98.25%, the highest since March 2020, the ministry said.

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New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.