Coronavirus

Lucknow/Varanasi/Prayagraj (UP): An increasing number of members from the Christian community are now adopting the Hindu tradition of cremating the bodies. They are then taking the ashes in urns to the graveyard for entombment. "With the increasing number of deaths taking place in the second...

New Delhi: Doctors are risking their lives during the coronavirus infection with as many as 269 doctors having died during the second wave of the pandemic. K.K. Aggarwal, a Padma Shri awardee and former National President of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), died of Covid-19...

Jammu: Veteran BJP leader and former union minister Chaman Lal Gupta died after a prolonged illness at his Gandhi Nagar residence here Tuesday, days after undergoing successful treatment for Covid-19 at a hospital, his family said. Gupta (87) is survived by his two sons and...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered Tuesday 10,321 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the I & PR department, government of Odisha said in a tweet. Of the fresh 10,321 new COVID-19 cases, 5,779 were from quarantine centres and 4,542 were local contact infections. In the...

New Delhi: Apollo Hospitals and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories said Monday they are collaborating to initiate a Covid-19 vaccination programme in India with Sputnik V. The first phase of the programme kicked off Monday with vaccinations in Hyderabad. It will start in Visakhapatnam May 18 at...

Bhopal: Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal, Pragya Thakur has claimed that she was not infected with the coronavirus because she regularly drinks cow urine. She said she will continue to be safe as long as she consumes 'gomutra'. The Congress has...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court said Monday political leaders have no business to hoard stocks of COVID-19 medicines. The high court also said since essential Covid-19 drugs are in shortage the political leaders are expected to surrender whatever they were storing. The high court...

Mumbai: The Airports Authority of India (AAI)-run Bhubaneswar Airport (Biju Patnaik International Airport, BPIA)) in Odisha has handled 20.53 MT of vaccines. The Bhubaneswar Airport has also handled other crucial Covid-related cargo, including oxygen concentrators and cylinders, an official release said Monday. AAI-run airports are...

New Delhi: The first batch of anti-COVID oral drug 2-DG, developed by the DRDO, was released Monday. The 2-DG drug was released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan. The Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) has approved the 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug...

Srinagar: As many as 59 Covid patients succumbed in different hospitals of J&K on Sunday taking the total number of people killed by the pandemic in the Union Territory to 3,149. Officials said the fatalities comprised 31 in the Jammu division and 28 in the...