Coronavirus

Mumbai: The last three T20Is of the India-England series will be played in an empty Narendra Modi Stadium due to rising COVID-19 cases, the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) said in a statement Monday night. The third game of the five-match series comes off Tuesday while...

New Delhi: Kewal Krishan was just five years old during the deadly the Spanish Flu of 1918. He later became part of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. The 107-year-old Kewal Krishan received his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine here, his son...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a virtual meeting of Chief Ministers March 17, in view of the rising cases of Corona in the country. The virtual meeting will begin at 11 am on Wednesday. During the meeting, among other topics, effective management...

Mumbai: A year after they were demonised and branded nationwide as 'Covid-19 Super Spreaders,' the Indian and foreigner members of the religious organisation Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) have a reason to cheer. The authors and publishers of a prominent medical reference book published earlier this year,...

New Delhi: India recorded 26,291 new COVID-19 cases Monday, its highest single-day spike in 85 days, taking the country's infection tally to 1,13,85,339, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll due to the disease increased to 1,58,725 with 118 more fatalities being recorded...

London: The progenitor of the novel coronavirus underwent "very little change" to adapt to humans from bats, according to a new study which suggests that the ability of the virus to spread from one person to another likely evolved in the flying mammal prior to...

New Delhi: West Indies cricket legend Sir Vivian Richards and former greats Richie Richardson and Jimmy Adams Sunday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing coronavirus vaccines to the Caribbean region. In a video message, Richards described India's assistance as a kind gesture and said...

London: The progenitor of the novel coronavirus underwent ‘very little change’ to adapt to humans from bats, according to a new study which suggests that the ability of the virus to spread from one person to another likely evolved in the flying mammal prior to...

New Delhi: Eight states in the country are displaying an upward trajectory in daily new cases of COVID-19 over the last three weeks, said the union health ministry Saturday. These states are Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka and Haryana. In the...

Washington: President Joe Biden has directed his administration to order another 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, growing a likely US surplus of doses later this year while much of the rest of the world struggles with deep shortages. Even before...