Coronavirus live updates: India's active cases 3.3L, recoveries over 6L

In case of 27 private universities, which were established during 2019-20 to till date, the first batch is yet to become eligible for final examination: UGC (ANI)

Response received from 640 universities. Out of these, 454 have either conducted the examination or are planning to conduct. 177 universities are yet to decide on the conduct of examination: UGC (ANI)

Universities were approached to inform the status of the conduct of examination: University Grants Commission (ANI)

During Covid-19, I scheduled a virtual conference with Vice Chancellors of Universities on July 15. Govt said that there is no provision for virtual conference under the rules: Jagdeep Dhankar, West Bengal governor

Telangana transfers top health department officials and brings in juniors, reports PTI.

During Covid, officials of State Road Transport Corporation worked day and night to facilitate migrants, students returning to their villages. SRTC is a friend in need: Adityanath

Read: Positive news on Oxford/Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine could come today, says report

Positive news on initial trials of the University of Oxford's potential Covid-19 vaccine that has been licensed to AstraZeneca could be announced as soon as Thursday, ITV's political editor Robert Peston said, citing a source. The potential vaccine is already in large-scale Phase III human trials to assess whether it can protect against Covid-19, but its developers have yet to report Phase I results which would show whether it is safe and whether or not it induces an immune response.

Covid-19 pandemic won't be controlled unless tests are conducted “at scale”, Tata group chief N Chandrasekaran says.

Read: Indian pharma industry capable of producing Covid-19 vaccines for entire world, says Bill Gates

India's pharmaceutical industry will be able to produce COVID-19 vaccines not just for the country but also for the entire world, according to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. A lot of "very important things have been done" in India and its pharma industry is doing work "to help make the coronavirus vaccine building on other great capacities that they have used for other diseases", said the co-chair and trustee of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The OPD building at AIIMS Delhi is dedicated to OPD services & physiotherapy of elderly people.

IMF chief warns global economy 'not out of the woods yet', reports AFP.

Canada's CN tower opens for the first time after lockdown, reports Reuters.

Read: Vaccination levels falling during pandemic, UN warns

As of this May, the coroanvirus pandemic had disrupted immunisation programmes in three-quarters of more than 80 nations, according to a UN survey conducted with the US Centres for Disease Control.

A patient, admitted at AIIMS Delhi, hanged himself. No suicide note retrieved. Investigation is underway: Delhi Police (ANI)

Snehasish doing "alright"; CAB president Avishek Dalmiya in home quarantine, reports PTI.

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly's elder brother and Cricket Association of Bengal joint secretary Snehasish Ganguly is "doing alright" after testing positive for Covid-19, which forced the former India captain and CAB chief Avishek Dalmiya to be in home quarantine.

Department of Biotechnology supported Covid-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, begins adaptive Phase I/II clinical trials in healthy subjects, making it the first indigenously developed vaccine to be administered in humans in India.

It is designed and developed by Zydus.