Coronavirus

  New Delhi: The Monsoon session of Parliament is likely to on July 19 and conclude August 13, sources said Tuesday. The nearly month-long session is likely to have around 20 sittings, they informed. The Monsoon session of Parliament usually commences in the third week...

New Delhi: The Centre will spend Rs 93,869 crore this year to provide 5kg of foodgrain per month free of cost to over 80 crore people during May-November for providing relief to poor amid the second wave of Covid-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Monday....

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga pledged Monday to strengthen health controls at airports. His comments came after a Ugandan Olympic team member tested positive for Covid-19 at the town hosting their training camp. This development has triggered concerns that the upcoming Tokyo Games will...

New Delhi: The Congress Monday demanded Rs 10 lakh compensation to the family of those who died due to Covid as it said the government has profited from petroleum products. He said the excessive excise duty on petrol and diesel that the government collects is...

New Delhi: To help revival of the economy battered by Covid-19, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Monday a slew of measures, including Rs 1.1 lakh crore credit guarantee scheme for improving health infrastructure, and enhancing the limit under the ECLGS by 50 per cent to...

New Delhi: The T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in India is being shifted to the UAE owing to the health safety concerns. The health concerns have been posed by the pandemic Covid-19, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly said Monday. He thus ended weeks of...

Kolkata: Popular Bengali singer and former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kabir Suman was rushed to the state-run SSKM hospital here Monday. Kabir Suman was shifted to the hospital after he complained of severe breathing problems, West Bengal Health department sources said. The septuagenarian singer is...

Seoul: Eleven more US soldiers and two American civilians have tested positive for Covid-19 upon their arrival in South Korea, authorities said Monday. The US Forces Korea (USFK) said that a relative of a service member stationed at the US Army Garrison Humphreys and two...

New Delhi: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi Monday once again took a potshot at the Narendra Modi government over the Covid vaccination programme saying the country expected truth from them. "The country expected truth from them. Those who don't know what the truth is," he...

New Delhi: The national capital on Sunday reported 89 new Covid-19 cases, staying below 100 cases for the straight second day, while the daily Covid positivity rate remained at 0.12 per cent, according to the health bulletin. With four more deaths reported Sunday, Delhi's Covid...