Coronavirus

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court directed Monday the Uttar Pradesh government to impose a week-long lockdown in a few cities. They are Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, Gorakhpur and Allahabad. The high court said that the lockdown must be implemented because of the record surge in...

Ballia (UP): Three government medical personnel, including two doctors, and their driver were injured after their car was attacked by a group of people. It happened when the medical personnel had gone to a village here to give medicines to a COVID-19 patient. They also...

Mumbai: Composer Shravan Rathod, of popular music director duo Nadeem-Shravan is ‘very critical’. Shravan Rathod has been admitted to a city hospital here after testing positive for COVID-19, his son Sanjeev said Monday. The 66-year-old composer is currently under observation at SL Raheja hospital. “He...

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tested positive for COVID-19. He was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here with a mild fever Monday afternoon. Manmohan Singh, 88, has been admitted to the AIIMS trauma centre. It is a dedicated COVID-19...

New Delhi: Top medical experts Monday quashed the view that more youngsters are getting hit by the second wave of COVID-19 infections. They said that the older population continues to remain more vulnerable to COVID-19 infections. They said over 70 per cent of COVID-19 patients...

Bhubaneswar: With Odisha reporting Monday the highest-ever new COVID-19 cases of 4,445, a total of seven districts have come under the ‘Red Zone’. These Red Zone districts are Sundargarh, Khurda, Sambalpur, Nuapada, Cuttack, Kalahandi and Bargarh. Currently these seven districts have an active caseload of 4,375,...

Chakulia (West Bengal): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged Monday the Election Commission (EC) to re-consider its decision to stick to the original poll schedule. Mamata Banerjee stressed that wrapping up the last three phases of polls on a single day or at the...

Mumbai: Actor Sameera Reddy said Monday her two children and husband, entrepreneur Akshai Varde, have also tested COVID-19 positive. Her disclosure came a day after she herself had informed that she had tested positive for the dreaded virus. The 42-year-old actor took to Instagram and...

New Delhi: The Congress said Monday that the BJP-led Centre should make probe agencies NIA, CBI and the ED go after black-marketeers and hoarders of medicines used for coronavirus treatment. However, the Congress pointed out that the Centre is ‘using them to target political opponents’....

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said she has sought help from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for additional vaccines and medicines in the wake of spiralling COVID-19 cases in the state. She also said the state government will spell out measures to deal...