Coronavirus

Mumbai: India’s economic growth may slip to 8.2 per cent if the second wave of Covid-19 peaks in end of June, domestic rating agency Crisil warned Monday. Crisil maintained its baseline estimate of 11 per cent uptick in activity. The agency made it clear that...

Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka): In a tragic and shocking incident a 72-year-old retired assistant tehsildar reportedly killed himself by shooting himself in the head on Monday after testing positive for Covid, the police said. The police said that the poignant point of his suicide note is that...

New Delhi: After battling for hospital beds and oxygen for nearly a month amid the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the national capital is now struggling to get adequate supply of vaccines. The Aam Aadmi Part (AAP) led Delhi government said on Monday...

Patna: Amid the Covid surge that is wreaking havoc across India, the administration in Bihar's Buxar district on Monday found at least 45 dead bodies, most in a decomposed stage, in the Ganga, and claimed they had been thrown into the river in upstream Uttar...

Bhubaneswar: She is not known as well as some of her male counterparts of the Indian cricket team. However, Veda Krishnamurthy has performed on a consistent basis for the Indian women’s cricket team. Veda Krishnamurthy has said cricket is her only solace after she lost...

New Delhi: Bharat Biotech has commenced direct supply of its Covid-19 vaccine ‘Covaxin’ to 14 states, including Delhi and Maharashtra. The supply of ‘Covaxin’ has started May 1 onward, Bharat Biotech’s managing director Suchitra Ella said Monday. The Hyderabad-based firm has started supplying the vaccine...

Mumbai: Experienced India leg-spinner Piyush Chawla’s father Pramod Kumar Chawla died Monday after battling Covid-19. He was around 60 years old. “With deepest grief, we announce that my beloved father, Mr Pramod Kumar Chawla, left for the heavenly abode on 10th May 2021. He was...

New Delhi: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) hit out Monday at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his handling of the coronavirus crisis. The CWC said Narendra Modi must ‘atone for his mistakes’. The CWC asserted that Modi must serve the people instead of carrying on...

New Delhi: Owners of IPL team SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH), Sun TV, donated Monday Rs 30 crore towards Covid-19 relief work being undertaken by the state and central governments along with various NGOs. India is battling a devastating health crisis in the second wave of the...

New Delhi: All states must ensure special teams at different levels to ‘mercilessly clamp down’ on hoarding and black marketing of drugs. This must be done during the COVID-19 pandemic to send a clear message that ‘trading in human miseries’ shall not be tolerated, the...