New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) With 4,329 deaths in last 24 hours, India on Tuesday recorded highest fatalities from Covid infection, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said.
However, there was a brig
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): Asserting that the strategy of starting the vaccination programme with frontline warriors has paid rich dividends in the second wave of COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Mo
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): The Centre has released Rs 5,968 crore to 15 states for the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission, the first of the four tranches to be released this financial year, the Jal Shakti M
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): Nineteen oxygen generation plants, 11,321 oxygen concentrators, 15,801 oxygen cylinders and about 5.5 lakh Remdesivir vials received as global aid have been delivered or dispatched to v
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Monday chaired a review meeting with the education secretaries of states and UTs to discuss various measures adopted for the management of t
Kolkata/New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): The CBI on Monday arrested four politicians, including two TMC ministers and an MLA, in the Narada sting case, setting off a massive political maelstrom in West Bengal as Chief
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the executive alone appointing the Chief Election Commissioner and El
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): The Delhi High Court Monday asked the Centre why it can't fix a formula to determine the MRP of oxygen concentrators which are in demand for COVID-19 treatment as people were being
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): Union minister Jitendra Singh hit out at opposition parties on Monday for criticising the government for the alleged mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic and appealed to the "cri
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): The government has laid out a procedure for rehabilitation of children who lost their parents to COVID-19.
The public notice by the Women and Child Development Ministry comes amid re
Dehradun, May 17 (PTI): A private hospital in Haridwar allegedly withheld information about deaths of 65 COVID-19 patients from the health authorities for over a fortnight in violation of the norms, officials s
Bengaluru, May 17 (PTI): Six people have lost their lives so far in the Cyclone Tauktae-hit coastal and surrounding Malnad districts of Karnataka, officials said on Monday.
According to a situation report by
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI): The first batch of anti-COVID oral drug 2-DG, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, was released on Monday by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Ministe
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS): In the backdrop of shortage of supply of Covid-19 medicines, the Delhi High Court on Monday said politicians have no business to hoard stocks of Covid-19 medicines and they should surr
Kolkata, May 17 (IANS): Covid has claimed West Bengal's top editor Anjan Bandopadhyay, family sources said.
Bandopadhyay, the Chief Editor of Zee Bangla, succumbed to the virus after a battle for more th
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying ventilators provided by PM CARES don't work and there is a lot common between him and these
Hyderabad, May 17 (IANS): An 18-year-old youth in Telangana spent 11 days on a tree after testing positive for Covid-19 as he could not isolate himself in his small home.
Fearing that he might infect his par
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS): Sparking huge concerns, at least 273 persons have been stranded on a drifting barge near the Heera Oilfields at Bombay High Field, around 175 kms from Mumbai, an official said here on Mon
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Cyclonic storm "Tauktae" is very likely to reach Gujarat coast on Monday evening and cross Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Mahuva (Bhavnagar district) during early hours o
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Covid numbers brought a heave of relief as the daily figures dropped below the 3-lakh mark for the first time in nearly a month.
In the last 24 hours, 2,81,386 new corona cases were