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1.68 Lakh Covid Cases In India In New Daily High; 2nd Worst Hit After US
COVID-19: India is the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus. New Delhi: India recorded 1,68,912 new Covid in the last 24 hours, the sixth record rise in seven days, pushing the country’s caseload to over 1.35 crore. The resurgence of the virus led to 904 new deaths, taking...
Amit Shah Responsible, Says Mamata Banerjee On Bengal Poll Violence
Mamata Banerjee blamed the centre for the violence in Cooch Behar. Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday blamed Union Home Minister Amit Shah for the violence in Sitalkuchi in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district where voting had to be called off after clashes left four people...
Show Courage, Share Full Chat
Bengal Election: Prashant Kishor challenged the BJP to release the full transcript of the chat. New Delhi: Prashant Kishor, Mamata Banerjee’s election strategist for the Bengal polls, appears to say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “as popular as” the Chief Minister in the state in excerpts of a...
DMX, Rapper Known For Signature Growls And Hip Hop Hits, Dies At 50
“Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end,” the statement read. New York: DMX, the hardcore hip-hop star whose ominous, snarling raps chronicled the violence and struggles of the American street, has died. He was 50 years old. The rapper’s longtime lawyer confirmed DMX’s death to AFP,...
Karnataka Reports Nearly 8,000 Covid Cases In Biggest Spike This Year
New Delhi: Karnataka on Friday reported 7,955 coronavirus cases in a day in its highest daily spike this year. With this, the number of active cases has jumped to 58,084 in the state. The biggest contributor to the state’s Covid figure was capital Bengaluru, which reported over 5,000 coronavirus...
3 UP Women Given Anti-Rabies Shots Instead Of Covid Jabs, Probe Confirms
The three women fell moderately ill after returning from a Community Health Centre in Shamli Three elderly women who went to a government hospital for Covid vaccine on Thursday were given anti-rabies shots instead, in a bizarre incident reported from Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh. The state government has...
Delhi Schools Shut Until Further Notice Amid Spike In Covid Cases
Students of Classes 9 through 12 were attending classes in Delhi. New Delhi: All schools and colleges will be closed in Delhi in view of the huge rise in coronavirus cases in the capital, along with other parts of the country, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Friday. Several...
J&J Says In Talks With India For Clinical Study Of Single-Dose Vaccine
In March, the World Health Organization issued emergency use authorization for the vaccine (File) New Delhi: US pharma giant Johnson & Johnson is in talks with the centre to start an early-stage clinical study of its single-dose Covid vaccine in India, the company has said in a statement. The...
Assam Conrgess Alliance Candidates Flown To Jaipur Resort For Safekeeping
Guwahati: As many as 22 candidates of the opposition alliance in Assam have been flown to Jaipur and sequestered in a hotel for “safekeeping” amid fears that the BJP may try to lure them away ahead of election results due next month, sources said on Friday. The candidates from...
Maharashtra Minister says state heading for lockdown
Maharashtra has been recording the highest number of cases. Mumbai: Maharashtra is heading towards a lockdown if the situation does not change, the state’s Health Minister Rajesh Tope said today. “We are not in favour of a lockdown but it will be essential to break the chain if things...
Appeal With Folded Hands, Run Buses, BS Yediyurappa Tells Striking Transport Staff
Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa appealed to the striking employyes to get back to work. Bengaluru: The state-wide strike in Karnataka by the government bus transport organisations continued for the third day today. Workers want their wages to be increased in line with the state’s sixth pay commission, something...
On Camera, Health Worker Transporting Covid Patient Stops At Juice Shop
Madhya Pradesh coronavirus news: The video was taken at Shahdol district. Bhopal: A health worker dressed in PPE kit waits for his order of juice after stopping an ambulance carrying a Covid patient at a shop, in a shocking video that has emerged from Madhya Pradesh. If this callousness...
Telangana Realtor Strikes Gold, Finds Antique Ornaments In Pot
The pot contained gold and silver earrings, nose rings, beads, anklets among other things Hyderabad: A realtor in Telangana struck a pot of gold, quite literally, while digging a plot of land and found antique ornaments that may have been used to adorn idols. The realtor was trying to...
37 Doctors At Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Test Positive Amid COVID-19 Surge
A majority of the doctors with COVID-19 have mild symptoms, Sir Ganga Ram authorities said. New Delhi: As many as 37 doctors at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus with five admitted for treatment amid a huge surge in COVID-19 cases in the country....
UK Reassures On AstraZeneca After Advising Under-30s Take Other Vaccines
UK has continued to use its AstraZeneca vaccine since it became the first country to roll it out. London: British officials and ministers sought to shore up confidence in AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, saying advice that most people under 30 should be offered alternative shots was not unusual...
Explain Central Forces Remark, Election Commission Tells Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee was asked to reply by 11 am tomorrow on her speech. New Delhi: Mamata Banerjee was asked today to explain comments during the Bengal campaign allegedly telling people to “gherao” central security forces, in a notice by the Election Commission, the second in two days. The Bengal...
Coronavirus: 1.31 Lakh COVID-19 Cases In India In New Daily High: 10 Points
Coronavirus India: Over 1.19 crore people in the country have recovered. New Delhi: India has set another record of daily Covid cases with 1,31,968 infections in the last 24 hours, pushing the total case count to over 1.3 crore. The surge, much steeper than last year’s first wave, has...
Indian Techie, Pregnant Wife Found Dead In US, Daughter, 4, Seen Crying In Balcony
Balaji Rudrawar and Arati Balaji Rudrawar got married in December 2014, moved to the US in 2015 Mumbai: An Indian couple was found dead at their home in the US after neighbours saw their four-year-old daughter crying alone in the balcony of their house, family sources said on Friday....
