New Delhi: India recorded the highest single-day spike of 29,429 coronavirus cases and 582 deaths in the last 24 hours, pushing the tally to 9,36,181 cases with a death total of 24,309, the Health Ministry's data stated Wednesday. On Tuesday, the country had crossed the...
Mumbai: In the most cheerful news from Mumbai -- the country's worst-hit city by Covid-19 -- on the eve of celebrating his 'century', a 100-year-old ex-teacher conquered the Coronavirus and was discharged from a government hospital Tuesday afternoon. A stern, retired ashram school, Arjun G....
Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases has increased to more than 13.2 million, while the deaths have soared to over 577,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Wednesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 13,284,292 while the fatalities rose...
Mumbai: After actress Rekha's security guard tested Covid-19 positive last weekend, four other watchmen in the area have contracted the virus. The four watchmen work in bungalows close to Rekha's bungalow in the Bandstand area of Bandra. They have been been shifted to Brihanmumbai Municipal...
Mumbai: Actress Neha Dhupia has said ‘motherhood’ has taught what ‘selflessness’ is. Neha Dhupia has also learnt the meaning of ‘selfless love’. “It taught me what selflessness was and what selfless love is, and I look at the world very differently,” Neha said. “Everyone out...
New Delhi: The HRD ministry asked Tuesday states and Union Territories to ensure that the names of children of migrant workers who returned home during the COVID-19 pandemic are not struck off their school rolls. Issuing a set of guidelines, the HRD Ministry also directed...
New Delhi: The cricketers around the world would anxiously wait for his signals. However ICC umpire Anil Chaudhary did not think one day ‘the lack of signal’ would affect his work. However, the ‘lack of signal’ did change his daily routine. Once the India-South Africa...
New Delhi: Human clinical trials for a vaccine for COVID-19 have been initiated in India. Approximately 1,000 volunteers are participating in the exercise for each of the two indigenously developed vaccine candidates. This information was provided by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Tuesday. Since India...
Balasore: Another MLA in Balasore district tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday. Remuna legislator Sudhanshu Shekhar Parida’s swab was collected July 11 and his report came out positive Tuesday. He was informed about his COVID positive status by the health department. The MLA was admitted to...
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh and BJP general secretary Ram Madhav have gone into self-quarantine. This happened after BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit president Ravinder Raina tested positive for coronavirus, Tuesday. He had accompanied Jitendra Singh and Ram Madhav to the residence of a...
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in its latest report released recently has castigated India for...
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Climate justice should become one of the most important points when discussing climate change. The harsh reality of human-induced climate...
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A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer...
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Uttar Pradesh’s latest babu reshuffle, while seemingly routine, is difficult to view in isolation. The Yogi Adityanath government has moved...
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