Pandemic  

India used to wait for years to get hold of innovations achieved outside, now our scientists are working at the same quick pace, said PM Modi
 

Senior Karnataka BJP leader R Ashoka endeavouring to immerse unclaimed urns containing ashes of those who died due to Covid-19 has earned him a lot of praises 
 

A unique initiative called ‘The Blessing Hut’ has been started in Assam's hill district Dima Hasao

In a key development on Thursday, the health ministry announced that it had placed orders to procure 30 crore doses of Biological E's Covid-19 vaccine

Sanskar Bharti, the cultural wing of the organisation has said it will provide financial assistance to a lakh such artists 

An online fundraising campaign has helped raise a sufficient sum to take care of transport staff of a school, who lost their jobs; all thanks to the pandemic  
 

The centre has taken a decision to accelerate the domestic production of vaccines to meet the humungous supply

The Indian Railways has made the highest-ever loading in the month of May

Uttar Pradesh has started ‘Mission June’ in which it aims to inoculate 1 crore people across 75 districts 

Komic, the country’s highest village –at a height of 15,050 feet – has been 100% inoculated 

The government is planning to inoculate 1 crore people on a daily basis starting mid-July  

An association for teachers has been helping the kin of departed co-workers  

From turning a community hall into a quarantine centre to finding out creative ways to teach students, the pandemic has brought to light new meaning to life
 

A private school in Delhi has converted its classrooms into covid care centre to combat a possible third wave  

‘We are pleased to inform that in the month of June we will be able to manufacture and supply nine to 10 crore doses of our Covishield vaccine to the country as compared to our production capacity of 6.5 crore doses in May,’ Prakash Kumar Singh, the Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs at SII, said in the letter