Coronavirus

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the new COVID-19 vaccine policy, terming it as arbitrary and discriminatory and urged him to intervene immediately to reverse it. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Congress chief alleged...

New Delhi: As the country grapples with the current wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court Thursday took suo motu cognisance of the prevailing grim situation and said it wanted a ‘national plan’ on issues, including supply of oxygen and essential drugs for treatment of...

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa was Thursday discharged from the private hospital here where he was undergoing treatment for COVID-19. He was discharged from the city's Manipal hospital, where he has been undergoing treatment for the last five days, his office said. The 78-year...

Aligarh (UP): Five coronavirus patients died at a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh allegedly due to a shortage in oxygen supply. The incident took place at Naurangabad locality in Gandi Park area here Wednesday, according to police. However, Dr Sanjeev Sharma, the owner of...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has attacked the government over the pathetic state of affairs in the country due to COVID-19 spread. In a tweet he said, "I am in quarantine at home but getting sad news from all over the country. In India,...

London: Britain's Heathrow Airport has refused to allow extra flights from India before it is added Friday to the UK's COVID-19 travel ‘red list’, which imposes a ban on entry to the country for all except British or Irish residents. The request for extra flights...

Haryana: A case of theft of COVID-19 vaccine was reported from Jind, Haryana Wednesday night. 1,710 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have reportedly been stolen from the storeroom of Jind Civil Hospital. The centre's in-charge said that these included 1,270 doses of Covishield and 440 Covaxin...

New Delhi: The number of daily coronavirus cases in India hit a record high with over 3.14 lakh new infections being reported, pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,59,30,965, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. A total of 3,14,835 fresh infections were registered in a span...

Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh): A doctor has been fined for not wearing a mask while treating patients at his clinic. The Kotwali Police have slapped a challan of Rs 10,000 on a doctor in the old city who was treating patients without wearing a mask. According...

New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Thursday said his son Ashish died of COVID-19 in the morning. Ashish, a journalist by profession who would have celebrated his 35th birthday June 9, was recovering well at Gurgaon's Medanta Hospital, people close to the family added....