Lucknow: An Oxygen Express train carrying around 30,000 litres of liquid medical oxygen arrived here Saturday morning as Uttar Pradesh is battling a sudden surge in coronavirus cases, an official said. The special train carrying two truckloads of medical oxygen arrived in the state capital...
New Delhi: Amid several states flagging scarcity of medical oxygen in the COVID-19 fight, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that the Railways and Air Force are being deployed to reduce the transportation time for oxygen tankers. Narendra Modi asserted that all state governments need...
New Delhi: Twenty-five ‘sickest’ COVID-19 patients have died at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here in the last 24 hours. The lives of another 60 such COVID-19 patients are at risk, officials said Friday. Sources said ‘low pressure oxygen’ could be the likely cause for the...
New Delhi: The Union government Thursday said that the registration for the third phase of COVID vaccination for everyone above 18 years of age will start April 28. The registration will start on the CoWIN platform and Aarogya Setu App. There will be no walk-in...
New Delhi: As the country grapples with the current wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court Thursday took suo motu cognisance of the prevailing grim situation and said it wanted a ‘national plan’ on issues, including supply of oxygen and essential drugs for treatment of...
New Delhi: The number of daily coronavirus cases in India hit a record high with over 3.14 lakh new infections being reported, pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,59,30,965, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. A total of 3,14,835 fresh infections were registered in a span...
New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest vaccine maker, Wednesday announced a price of Rs 600 per dose for COVID vaccine supplies to private hospitals and Rs 400 per dose to state governments. In a statement posted on its Twitter handle, SII...
Bhubaneswar: In view of the COVID-19 situation in the state and protests by Class X students, the Odisha government Wednesday decided to cancel the annual matriculation examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) for the year 2021. “In view of COVID-19 pandemic, the...
Minneapolis: Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man's neck in a case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious re-examination of racism and policing...
New Delhi: More states went for partial-to-full lockdown, night curfew and other restrictions on Tuesday India's active COVID cases crossed 20 lakh after 2,59,170 new coronavirus infections and a record 1,761 new fatalities. The Centre stressed that the next three weeks will be critical for...
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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