Coronavirus

Chennai: COVID-19 patients who are scrambling for beds in hospitals across Chennai are facing problems of no bed availability as there seems to be a mismatch on the actual number of beds available and the number being allotted. The availability of beds with Oxygen facility...

Kolkata: The ‘Bangla nijer meyekei chay’ slogan underpinned her aggressive election campaign that helped her outsmart the BJP. Wednesday, Bengal's own daughter she firmly pitched herself as, was sworn in as the chief minister of the turbulent state for the third succesive term amid raging...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said that the Modi government has failed to provide relief to the public. "No vaccine, no employment, public is suffering from corona, and Modi sarkar has absolutely failed," he tweeted in Hindi. Rahul Gandhi has been attacking the...

United Nations: President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir's planned visit to India later this month has been postponed due to an ‘unexpected situation’ relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Bozkir on Tuesday told reporters that he will be travelling to Bangladesh...

New Delhi: India Wednesday recorded 3,780 deaths, maximum in a day and 3,82,315 fresh cases of Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total caseload in the country to 2,06,65,148, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. It is the 14th straight...

Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 153.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.22 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the...

Patna: When the second wave of the coronavirus started wreaking havoc, restaurants in Bihar came forward with a gesture of humanity and sensitivity. Many restaurants here started delivering free food to corona-infected patients, irrespective of their religion, caste or any other social boundary. The initiative...

New York: There is consensus among scientists and public health experts that reaching 'herd immunity' is unlikely in the US, when it comes to Covid-19, the media reported. According to The New York Times, the experts believe that the virus will most likely become a manageable...

New Delhi: The gorgeous Deepika Padukone has reportedly tested Covid positive. While an official confirmation on behalf of the actress is awaited, the website of IIFA tweeted the health update on Tuesday. "#DeepikaPadukone has tested positive for Covid-19. Get well soon, Deepika!" said a tweet...

New Delhi: A well-known Kashmiri Pandit chef and an aspiring Kashmiri Muslim journalist are saving thousands of lives by arranging plasma for Covid affected patients across the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR). Days after the country was hit by a severe second wave of the coronavirus,...