New Delhi, May 14 (IANS): Witnessing a decline, India on Friday reported 3,43,144 new Covid cases and 4,000 fatalities, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
In the past 22 days India's d
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) As states grapple with a shortage of coronavirus vaccines, the Centre Thursday said that over two billion doses will be made available in the country in five months between August and De
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI): A high powered committee (HPC) constituted on orders of the Supreme Court to decongest jails here to prevent spread of COVID-19 has decided that persons arrested for black-marketing and
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI): The dialer tune message of the Centre asking people to get vaccinated was criticised by the Delhi High Court which on Thursday said the "irritating" message was being played f
Patna, May 13 (IANS) After Bihar's Buxar, several decomposed dead bodies were now found floating in the Ganga near Patna's Gulabi Ghat on Thursday, officials said.
District Magistrate Chandrasheker S
BIJNOR, May 13 (IANS): His father wanted him to be a doctor but he aspired to be a police officer.
He became both and Ganesh Kumar Gupta, posted as deputy superintendent of police (DSP) in Bijnor, is now tre
GENEVA, MAY 13 (IANS): The World Health Organization (WHO) has blamed several religious and political mass gathering events for fuelling India's dramatic surge in new cases and deaths.
The spread of B161
NEW DELHI, MAY 13 (IANS): The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has accorded permission to conduct the Phase II-III clinical trial of Covaxin (Covid vaccine) in the age group of two to 18-years-old to it
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI): An alleged Al-Qaeda member who is a doctor and lodged in Tihar jail, moved a Delhi court on Thursday seeking permission to assist the prison authorities to deal with the COVID-19 cases.
NEW DELHI, MAY 13 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 8th instalment of financial benefits worth Rs 19,000 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Friday to bene
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 13 (IANS): Even as Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across India, but the distressful situation has turned out to be a succour to the rarest of the rare reunion between a father and h
New Delhi, May 13 (PTI): The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday postponed the civil services preliminary examination, scheduled to be held in June, to October 10 in view of the alarming COVID si
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS): The Indian armed forces earned international accolades when they reached to people in distress from Indonesia to Sri Lanka during the infamous Asian Tsunami of 2004.
As an undersea
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI): Taking umbrage at the B.1.617 mutant of the novel coronavirus being termed an "Indian variant", the Union health ministry on Wednesday said the WHO has not used the word "
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI): Leaders of 12 opposition parties Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a free mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus, and a suspension of the central vista rev
Beijing, May 12 (PTI): Chinese demographers say India will become the world's most populous country earlier than the United Nations' projection of 2027, surpassing China where a steady drop in the birth
Mumbai, May 12 (PTI): Expressing its displeasure with politicians for not following COVID-19 lockdown curbs imposed in Maharashtra, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday said no leader or m
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Noted science writer Nicholas Wade, who has worked with some of the world's most distinguished science magazines and journals, penned an exhaustive article last week explaining why Coronavirus has a
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS): The government has said it is taking steps to ramp up availability of Amphotericin B - to fight Mucormycosis, a black fungus infection in Covid patients.
The sudden increase in dema
Bengaluru, May 12 (PTI): Eminent Gandhian and freedom fighter H S Doreswamy has won the COVID-19 battle at the ripe old age of 103 and is returning home.
"I developed symptoms five days ago but there we