Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 10,413 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 4,54,607. Active caseload in the state stands at 67,086. Out of the 10,413 new infections, 5,887 were reported from quarantine centres while 4,526 persons contracted...
New Delhi: There would be no lockdown across the states as the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has advised them to go in for ‘containment’ in districts and areas where the second wave surged. The ministry directed states and Union Territories to consider containment measures...
New Delhi: Terming the second wave of COVID-19 as a ‘national crisis’, the Supreme Court Friday warned authorities, from the Centre down to police chiefs, against silencing people and their pleas for help on the presumption that they are raising false grievances on the internet....
Jerusalem: A stampede broke out early Friday at a Jewish religious gathering attended by tens of thousands of people in northern Israel, leaving many killed and injured, authorities said. Israeli media reported that at least 40 people were killed and published photos of rows of...
New Delhi: Bharat Biotech Thursday announced a cut in the price of its COVID-19 vaccine 'Covaxin' it plans to sell to the states to Rs 400 per dose from the earlier Rs 600. This follows widespread criticism of its pricing policy as it sold Covaxin...
United Nations: The UN team in India is supporting the country's authorities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing critical supplies and its agencies are procuring thousands of oxygen concentrators, oxygen generating plants and other essential equipment as well as helping set up mobile...
Geneva: The 'Indian strain' of the coronavirus, also known as B.1.617 or a 'double mutant', has been found in at least 17 countries, the WHO has said, as the world grapples to contain the surge in the COVID-19 cases with 5.7 million infections detected last...
Guwahati/Shillong/Itanagar: Seven back- to-back earthquakes jolted Assam and some other northeastern states Wednesday morning, causing extensive damage to buildings and forcing people to scamper out of their homes. The first of the shocks of 6.4 magnitude with its epicentre at 43 km west of Tezpur,...
New Delhi: India saw a record single-day rise of 3,60,960 coronavirus cases, which pushed the total tally to 1,79,97,267, while the death toll crossed two lakh following 3,293 fresh fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday. The number of people who have...
New Delhi: Nations across the world have come forward to help India in its fight against the raging second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which is extremely virulent and has ravaged the country in the past few weeks. As per official sources, the US, the...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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