Coronavirus

New Delhi: Cases have been filed against four airlines for failing to check the RTPCR test reports of passengers arriving from Maharashtra, Delhi government sources said Sunday. These cases have been filed under the Disaster Management Act, they said. Delhi government had last week announced...

Gwalior (MP): A hospital ward boy has been arrested for allegedly trying to rape a 50-year-old patient admitted at a COVID care centre set up in a hotel here in Madhya Pradesh, police said Sunday. The complainant woman told the police that the ward boy...

Raipur: Authorities have ordered an investigation after five coronavirus patients died in a fire at the COVID-19 ward of a private hospital in the state capital of Chhattisgarh, police said Sunday. Raipur Collector Dr S Bharathi Dasan has ordered an investigation into the incident. Officials...

New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote Sunday to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the COVID-19 crisis. Manmohan Singh stressed that ramping up vaccination was the key to battling the pandemic. In a letter to Modi, the veteran Congress leader said one must not...

Tehatta (WB): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said BJP leaders ‘from Delhi’ who are bringing ‘outsiders’ for campaigning, without COVID-19 tests, are responsible for the spike in coronavirus cases in the state. The Trinamool Congress supremo also blamed the Election Commission (EC)...

New Delhi: Terming the COVID-19 situation in the national capital as ‘very serious’, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday seeking help for beds and oxygen for coronavirus patients. Kejriwal also requested the prime minister for reserving at least 7000...

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Sunday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thanking him for sparing ‘a little time’ amidst the ‘urgent war to conquer West Bengal’, to review the coronavirus situation in the country. He also criticised the Prime Minister...

New Delhi: Anybody in the country who is in dire need of some help, be it the requirement for plasma or medicine, can approach Youth Congress President Srinivas B.V., who is ready to help even in the middle of the night. The Youth Congress has...

Mumbai: Noted singer Sonu Nigam Sunday reacted to the Kumbh Mela being made symbolic for this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The singer feels, the religious gathering shouldn't have been permitted to happen amid the pandemic. With reports of a huge number of...

New Delhi: The daily coronavirus positivity rate in India in the last 12 days has doubled to 16.69 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate has increased to 13.54 per cent in the past one month, the Health Ministry said Sunday. India reported a record...