New Delhi: India Wednesday recorded 4,205 deaths due to Covid, highest till date with 3,48,421 fresh cases, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. On May 8, India has recorded 4,187 deaths in 24 hours, while on May 7, India recorded its highest...
Bhubaneswar: A day after deciding to open a global tender to procure vaccines from open markets to ensure mass inoculations, the state government Tuesday decided to set up RT-PCR testing laboratories in 16 district headquarters hospitals. Health and family welfare department issued a notification to...
New Delhi: More than 90 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and UTs, the Union Health Ministry said Tuesday. It also said that states and Union Territories will receive an additional dose of seven lakh vaccine in the next three days. The...
Chittoor: In yet another incident of lack of oxygen, 11 Covid-19 patients breathed their last Monday night at the state-run Sri Venkateswara Ramnarain Ruia Hospital (SVRR) in Chittoor district, officials said. They informed that the hospital had ran out of oxygen supply which led to...
Mumbai: India’s economic growth may slip to 8.2 per cent if the second wave of Covid-19 peaks in end of June, domestic rating agency Crisil warned Monday. Crisil maintained its baseline estimate of 11 per cent uptick in activity. The agency made it clear that...
Guwahati: North East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) convener Himanta Biswa Sarma was Monday sworn-in as the 15th Chief Minister of Assam by Governor Jagadish Mukhi at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra here. Himanta Biswa Sarma was clad in traditional ‘pat silk’ dhoti and kurta with a muga...
New Delhi: More than 72 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and union territories, while over 46 lakh doses will be received by them within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said Sunday. The government of India has so far...
New Delhi: Taking note of the ‘unprecedented surge’ in COVID-19 cases, the Supreme Court Saturday moved to decongest prisons and ordered the immediate release of prisoners who were granted bail or parole last year. Observing that the decongestion of prisons housing around 4 lakh inmates...
Mumbai: India would be able to achieve ‘herd immunity’ only after October, and the country needs to drastically scale up its vaccination drive, a SBI Ecowrap report said Friday. The report said that till date, the country has given around 16.50 crore vaccine doses with...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said Friday it will not leave Karnataka citizens in lurch. It refused to interfere with the Karnataka High Court order asking the Centre to increase the daily oxygen allocation for the state from 965MT to 1200MT for treating COVID-19 patients....
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
Read moreDetails
More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
Read moreDetails
The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
Read moreDetails
By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
Read moreDetails