Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Centre has placed orders for import of 4.5 lakh vials of antiviral drug Remdesivir with the first consignment of 75,000 vials expected to reach Indian shores Friday. This information was given Friday by the Chemicals and Fertilisers Ministry in a statement. The...

Washington: The Biden administration is working to expand the oxygen supply chain in India to save lives and wage a successful battle against what has now become one of the worst outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic in the world, a USAID official has said. India...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday continued its hearing on the COVID situation and said any clampdown on information will be treated as contempt. The apex court flagged the issue of threat of coercive action against people putting help calls on social media. "We want...

New Delhi: Cracking its whip on the people involved in preparing false COVID-19 reports, the Delhi police Friday said it had arrested five people, including a doctor, from Malviya Nagar area for preparing coronavirus reports using forged means. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South Delhi,...

New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) extended Friday the suspension on international flights from and to India till May 31. This decision to extend the suspension has been taken keeping in view of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. In the...

New Delhi: Terming the second wave of COVID-19 as a ‘national crisis’, the Supreme Court Friday warned authorities, from the Centre down to police chiefs, against silencing people and their pleas for help on the presumption that they are raising false grievances on the internet....

Ahmedabad: Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has said that he, along with other cricketers of his country, wouldn’t mind being on the same chartered flight that would take India, New Zealand and England players to the United Kingdom after the IPL. A senior BCCI official agreed...

New Delhi: Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has contributed Rs 1 crore to 'Mission Oxygen', an initiative on the medical fundraising website Ketto aiming to help procure oxygen cylinders for hospitals in India for COVID-19 patients. "The second wave of Covid has put our health-care system...

New Delhi: Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi are among the 10 states that account for 73.05 per cent of new COVID-19 cases reported in a day, the Union Health Ministry said Friday. India registered 3,86,452 new coronavirus infections in a span of 24 hours. Karnataka,...

Kolkata: A spike in illegal narcotics from the ‘Golden Triangle’ to South and Southeast Asian countries as a result of pandemic-related supply gluts and a likely increase in production is worrying Myanmar’s neighbours, including India. The ‘Golden Triangle’, located in northeastern Myanmar bordering Laos, Thailand...