The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says 189,452 children in Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi states did not receive certain vaccines as at December 2022, referring to them as zero-dose children.
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India’s top court on Tuesday said it cannot legalize same-sex marriages, with the chief justice of the country saying making such a law is the domain of parliament.
The Immunoadoptive Cell Therapy Private Limited (ImmunoACT), based in Mumbai, India, on October 13, 2023, announced the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO)’s approval for the use of the country’s first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapy for the treating relapsed-refractory B-cell lymphoma and leukemia.
At least 14 people have been reported dead and more than 100 missing after a flash flood in India.
Officials say 100 students of a government-run physical education institute took ill due to food poisoning and admitted to a hospital in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
India has stopped issuing visas to Canadians following tensions over the killing in the western Canadian province of British Columbia of a Canadian citizen who was a Sikh separatist.
At least eight people were killed and several others injured due to lightning in India’s eastern state of Odisha, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said Tuesday.
India will soon replace China as the world’s most populous country, according to estimates by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
An avalanche killed seven tourists in India’s Himalayan state of Sikkim near a mountain pass to the Chinese region of Tibet on Tuesday, with rescue workers calling off the search for bodies as night fell.
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