Indian journalist bodies condemn Israeli airstrike on Gaza building housing AP, Al Jazeera offices

NEW DELHI: Indian journalist bodies including the Editors Guild of India (EGI) on Sunday strongly condemned the “brazen” Israeli airstrikes on a building in Gaza that housed the offices of the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other news media outlets. The EGI said in a statement that given the recent background of the “escalating conflict” […]

No new virus strain behind spate of Covid-19 deaths in AMU: Official

Aligarh: Genome sequencing of Covid-19 samples has not found any new coronavirus strain behind the infection around the AMU campus, university authorities said Sunday as another member of their fraternity died. Professor Abu Qamar, 75, the former dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital died here on Sunday […]

India got 5.3 lakh Remdesivir vials, 13,496 oxygen cylinders as foreign aid: Centre

NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry on Sunday said 11,058 oxygen concentrators, 13,496 oxygen cylinders, 19 oxygen generation plants and about 5.3 lakh Remdesivir vials received as global aid have been delivered to various states/UTs from April 27 to May 15. India has been receiving international donations and aid of Covid-19 relief medical supplies and […]

PM Modi reviews Covid-19 situation, orders immediate audit of installation, operation of ventilators

PM Modi reviews Covid-19 situation, orders immediate audit of installation, operation of ventilators

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for augmenting healthcare resources in rural areas to focus on door to door testing and surveillance, and asserted that localised containment strategies are the need of the hour, especially in states with high positivity rate in districts. Chairing a high-level meeting, Modi said states should be […]

India adds 3.26 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 3,890 fresh fatalities

India adds 3.26 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 3,890 fresh fatalities

NEW DELHI: India in a day recorded 3,26,098 COVID-19 cases that took the tally to 2,43,72,907, while 3,890 new fatalities pushed the death toll to 2,66,207, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The active cases have reduced to 36,73,802 and comprise 15.07 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 […]

Azad writes to PM, suggests measures to ramp up vaccine manufacturing, health infra

Azad writes to PM, suggests measures to ramp up vaccine manufacturing, health infra

NEW DELHI: Former Union health minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, suggesting measures to increase Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing in the country, party officials said. In his letter, a copy of which has also been sent to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan, Azad has also given […]

Depression Over Arabian Sea Intensifies Into Cyclone Tauktae: IMD

New Delhi: The deep depression over the Arabian Sea has intensified into cyclonic storm Tauktae and is likely to cross the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Naliya around May 18, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday. It said Tauktae will be a very severe cyclonic storm from May 16-18. In a bulletin released […]

85 per cent of COVID-19 cases from 10 states: Health Ministry

NEW DELHI: Ten states account for 85 per cent of the total novel coronavirus cases in the country, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said 11 states have over one lakh active COVID-19 cases while eight have active cases between 50,000 and one lakh. Twenty-four states have a COVID-19 positivity rate of […]

India needs proper vaccine strategy, govt’s ‘disastrous policy’ will ensure third wave: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called for a national vaccine strategy and claimed that the government’s “disastrous” inoculation policy will “ensure a devastating third wave” in the country. He also accused the prime minister of making “mother Ganga cry” after bodies of suspected coronavirus victims were found floating in the river. “The […]

Delhi Police arrests 15 people, lodges 17 FIRs over posters criticising Modi

New Delhi: Delhi Police has registered 17 FIRs and arrested 15 people for allegedly pasting posters critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the vaccination drive against COVID-19, officials said on Saturday. The posters reading “Modiji humare bachon ki vaccine videsh kyu bhej diya (PM why did you send vaccines of our children […]