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Shock, Grief After Sitaram Yechury’s Son Dies Of Covid
Ashish Yechury died at Gurgaon’s Medanta Hosptial. New Delhi: Senior Left leader Sitaram Yechury’s son Ashish Yechury died of COVID-19 in Delhi this morning. Condolences poured in for the CPI(M) leader and his family after he announced the death of his older son, who would have turned 35...
With 3.14 Lakh New Covid Cases, India Records World’s Biggest-Ever Spike
India reported 2,104 deaths in the last 24 hours. New Delhi: Swept by the second Covid wave, infections rose by a record 3.14 lakh in India, the highest-ever single day rise reported by any nation, taking the caseload to 1.59 crore. The country also saw another new grim record...
CPIM Leader Sitaram Yechury’s Son, 34, Dies Of COVID-19
Ashish Yechury was eldest son of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. (File photo) New Delhi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said his elder son Ashish died of COVID-19 in the morning. Ashish Yechury, who would have turned 35 on June 9, was recovering well at Gurgaon’s...
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Makes Oxygen On Mars For First Time
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment MOXIE produced 5 grams of oxygen NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday. “This is...
Phase 6 Polls In West Bengal Today Amid Rising Covid Cases: 10 Points
43 assembly seats across four districts are up for polls in this phase. (Representational) Kolkata: The sixth phase of assembly elections in Bengal will be held today in the shadow of spiralling Covid. In a first, Bengal has crossed the 10,000-mark, logging 10,748 fresh cases. 43 assembly seats...
This Emergency Shows Lives Don’t Matter For Government, Says Court
The judges were hearing an appeal by Max hospitals, which had flagged oxygen crisis in 2 of its hospitals Highlights “You can’t have people die…”: Court to centre Court asks Centre to seek petroleum, steel industry help for crisis Industries will be ready to help, it is...
