Coronavirus

New Delhi: Airlines will not be permitted to serve meals in domestic flights that have duration of less than two hours. This information was released Monday by the the Civil Aviation Ministry. It said the move is being adopted to prevent the transmission of coronavirus...

New Delhi: The surge in cases amid the second wave of Covid-19 has hit the Supreme Court with several of its staff testing positive for the viral infection. According to sources familiar with the development, 44 people have tested positive for Covid-19 so far in...

New Delhi: Amazon said Monday it will cover the COVID-19 vaccination cost for all its India employees. The company also said vaccination for all its associates as well as those in partner network ecosystem will be taken care of. This would include delivery service partner...

Balasore: A total of 101 employees of Emami Paper Mills Limited, part of the Emami Group of Industries, at Remuna in Balasore district tested positive Monday for COVID-19. Balasore chief district medical officer (CDMO) Dr Dulalsen Jagddeb confirmed the news. With a large number of...

New Delhi: Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik-V has been cleared for emergency use approval in India by a committee of experts. The clearance to use Sputnik-V has come in the middle of a record spike in virus cases in India. After the expert panel clearance, Sputnik-V...

Dehradun: Amid rising coronavirus cases in the country, thousands of saffron-clad seers and ash-smeared Nagas flouted COVID-19 norms and converged at Har Ki Pairi here for a holy dip in the Ganga during the second royal bath of the Kumbh Mela Monday. The seers of...

New Delhi: Batting for coronavirus vaccine for all, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said it is the need of the country as everyone has the right to a safe life. He said this as part of ‘SpeakUpForVaccinesForAll’ campaign launched by the party on social...

New Delhi: Supreme Court judges would hold court from their residences Monday and the benches would sit one hour late from their schedule time in the morning as around 44 staffers have tested positive for coronavirus, sources said. On some media reports which suggested that...

New Delhi: India hit a new coronavirus infection record with 1,68,912 new cases, the highest single-day rise so far, taking the total tally of cases to 1,35,27,717, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Sunday. The national COVID-19 recovery rate has fallen below 90 per cent....

Palghar: In a noble gesture, a six-year-old girl in Palghar decided not to celebrate her birthday and rather encouraged her family members to donate blood on the occasion to prevent its shortage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Yuga Amol Thackeray, a resident of Gandre village in...