1st indigenous mRNA Covid shot gets nod

New Delhi: The Drug Controller General of India on Wednesday granted emergency use authorisation to India’s first indigenously developed mRNA vaccine, GEMCOVAC-19, for use in 18-year-olds and above. Pune-based Gennova Biopharmaceuticals has developed the vaccine. PTI

ONGC chopper crash: Rs 30L for victims’ kin

New Delhi: The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) have each announced ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh for the family of the four persons who died in the helicopter accident near the ONGC rig located in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai on Tuesday. TNS

12 more killed in Assam floods

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam worsened further on Wednesday with 12 more people losing their lives and the number of affected people increasing to 31.5 lakh, while Silchar town in Cachar district remained under water for the last 10 days, officials said. PTI

Building collapse: FIR against flat owners

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police have registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against some flat owners and others in connection with the collapse of a building in suburban Kurla that killed 19 persons and injured 15 others, an official said on Wednesday.

Soldier goes missing in Arunachal, third in 4 wks

New Delhi: An Army soldier, Naib Subedar Amrendra Kumar, has gone missing in a forward area in Arunachal Pradesh, the third in four weeks. He may have fallen into the fast-flowing mountain stream in the remote Lower Subansiri district of the state. TNS