NEW DELHI: Daily new cases of coronavirus in India continued to remained below 30,000 with the country recording 27,176 fresh COVID-19 cases, while 284 new fatalities were recorded, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. With the fresh cases, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,33,16,755, while the death toll […]
NEW DELHI: India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on COVID-19 due to the country’s higher internet penetration rate, increasing social media consumption and users’ lack of internet literacy, according to a new study. The study, ‘Prevalence and Source Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation in 138 Countries’, was published in Sage’s International Federation of […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the Indian delegation virtually at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to be held in Tajik capital city of Dushanbe on September 17, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Dushanbe for the SCO […]
NEW DELHI: India recorded 50,035 cases of cyber crime in 2020, with a 11.8 per cent surge in such offences over the previous year, as 578 incidents of “fake news on social media” were also reported, official data showed on Wednesday. The rate of cyber crime (incidents per lakh population) also increased from 3.3 per […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 25,404 new COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally in the country to 3,32,89,579, while the count of active cases declined to 3,62,207, according to Union health ministry data on Tuesday. The death toll due to the disease has climbed to 4,43,213, with 339 daily fatalities being recorded, […]
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization’s approval for the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin, developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, is likely to come this month, official sources said Monday. The WHO has so far approved Covid vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, US pharma majors Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, China’s Sinopharm and Oxford-AstraZeneca for emergency use. Covaxin […]
New Delhi: Abetment is proved when a person instigates another to do something and creates such circumstances that the latter is left with no option except to commit suicide, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. A Bench of Justices M R Shah and Aniruddha Bose made the observation while setting aside an order of the […]
New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 27,254 new Covid cases, taking the infection tally in the country to 3,32,64,175, while the count of active cases declined to 3,74,269, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Monday. The death toll due to the disease has climbed to 4,42,874, with 219 more fatalities being […]
New Delhi: India has crossed the landmark of administering 75 crore Covid vaccine doses, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Monday. He said the country’s vaccination drive continues to create new dimensions under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and with his mantra of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Prayas (together with everybody, with everybody’s […]
PUDUCHERRY: “Climate change is not a futuristic phenomenon and we are already experiencing it,” said Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu. Inaugurating a 2.4 megawatt solar power plant in the Pondicherry Central University here on Monday, he said, ” The next few years are going to be crucial for our collective action to mitigate climate change.”. He said […]