Bhadohi (UP): Eleven Bangladeshi Tablighi Jamaat members, who were arrested from here for flouting visa norms and put in a government travel blacklist, have left the country after a Lucknow court allowed them go on completing their punishment, police said Sunday. Superintendent of Police Ram...
New Delhi: Six states -- Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh -- account for 83.14 per cent of the new COVID-19 cases in the country. The calculation is based on the latest figures shared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has tested positive for COVID-19, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said Sunday, adding that his condition is stable. "Om Birla, Hon'ble Member of Parliament and Speaker of the Lok Sabha, tested positive for Covid on...
Islamabad: Pakistan imposed a complete ban on travel from 12 countries, including South Africa, Rwanda and Tanzania, in a bid to curb the spike of coronavirus cases as the country Sunday recorded 3,667 new cases, taking the national tally to 626,802. The Civil Aviation Authority...
Kathmandu: Nepal's national drug regulatory authority on Saturday granted emergency use approval to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin, becoming the third country to approve India's indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine. A meeting of the drug advisory committee of the Department of Drug Administration decided to issue a conditional...
Mumbai: Maharashtra cabinet minister and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's son, Aaditya Thackeray, has tested positive for the coronavirus. In a tweet today, he urged those who had come in contact with him to get tested for the virus. "On having mild symptoms of COVID, I had...
New Delhi: India saw 40,953 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, the highest single-day rise recorded in 111 days, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,15,55,284, according to Union Health Ministry data updated Saturday. Registering an increase for the tenth day in a...
Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has surpassed 122.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.70 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed...
New Delhi: With new confirmed Covid-19 cases spreading to states outside Maharashtra, the risk of a second wave in India has risen materially, Nomura said in a research note. "We believe this can lead to near-term growth concerns and delay market expectations on the timing...
Mumbai: As Mumbai crossed the daily count of 3,000-plus Covid-19 cases on Friday for the first time since the pandemic hit the country, and Maharashtra's total tally zoomed past 24 lakh, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray warned that "a lockdown is an option in future". Adding...
The growing tendency of different state police forces to cross jurisdictional boundaries in order to arrest individuals for their opinions...
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