Coronavirus

Kolkata: Over 86 lakh voters in West Bengal will decide the political fate of 284 candidates Monday, when 34 Assembly constituencies, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s home turf Bhabanipur, go to polls in the seventh phase, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19. Security measures...

New Delhi: The recurrence of coronavirus outbreak in March could have been be due to lack of ‘meaningful antibodies’ in seropositive people after a peak in September last year, suggests a survey by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The CSIR conducted a...

New Delhi: The first Oxygen Express train for Delhi carrying around 70 tonnes of the life-saving gas will depart from Jindal Steel Works plant in Raigarh Sunday night, Chairman Railway Board Suneet Sharma said. The train, with four tankers, will reach Delhi by Monday night,...

Washington: The US will rapidly deploy additional support to India and its health care heroes to combat the massive surge in coronavirus infections in the country, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. Blinken's statement came as pressure mounted on the Biden administration to ship...

New Delhi: As many as 551 dedicated pressure swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen generation plants will be set up inside public health facilities across the country to boost availability of the life-saving gas amid its shortage in several states battling the COVID-19 surge. The PMO...

New Delhi: On a gloomy Saturday afternoon, the staff at the Saroj Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi broke down and started praying anxiously as lives of more 100 patients hung by a thread amid rapidly depleting oxygen supply. An oxygen tanker had reached the hospital...

Lucknow: The Islamic Madrasa Modernization Teachers Association of India has written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seeking conversion of all of the state madrasas into COVID facilities. They have offered the services of teachers as corona warriors in the field. The letter states...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday alleged that the ‘system has failed’ and it is the duty of the party to provide help to fellow citizens suffering due to sudden spurt in COVID-19 cases in the country. His comments came on a day Prime...

Kolkata: TMC candidate from Khardah Assembly constituency Kajal Sinha, who had tested positive for COVID-19, died at a hospital here Sunday morning, an official of the state health department said. Sinha (59) was found to have contracted the viral disease two days ago, following which...

New Delhi: Noting that the second wave of COVID-19 is testing people's patience and their limit to bear pain, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that this ‘toofan’ (storm) has shaken the country after it was full of spirit and self-confidence after successfully tackling the...