23:49
Over 500 people have fallen sick in different parts of east Delhi after eating food prepared with buckwheat (kuttu) flour, officials said on Wednesday.It prima facie appears to be a case of food adulteration or sale of spoiled flour, they said.A case has been registered against the owner of a...
22:58
Asserting that the government is committed to ensuring adequate availability of COVID-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday called for harnessing the combined power of community groups, political parties and NGOs in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Interacting with...
22:28
Maharashtra's in-charge DGP Sanjay Pandey on Wednesday said that no e-pass is required to be obtained for the movement of vehicles during the coronavirus-induced restrictions imposed in the state.He said that only those vehicles that are involved in emergency services and those private vehicles...
22:07
Expressing concern over the panic created by the shortage of Remdesivir, an anti-viral drug, Maharashtra's COVID-19 task force has said that it was not a life-saving medicine in coronavirus treatment, and stronglyadvised against its rampant and irrational abuse.The task force also suggested that...
21:49
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday accused the Uttar Pradesh government of hiding coronavirus numbers and said had they been cautious from day one, people would not have witnessed such times. Priyanka said this speaking to state party leaders during a...
21:48
Delhi recorded 17,282 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the highest single-day surge in the national capital since the onset of the pandemic, while over 100 fatalities were reported, according to data shared by the health department. As per the latest bulletin, 104 new fatalities were...
20:55
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who tested positive for COVID-19 on April 8,was discharged from the Government Medical College at Kozhikode on Wednesday. A medical bulletin said the chief minister was admitted on April 8 with positive Covid report. ...
20:52
Mumbai on Wednesday recorded 9,925 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 5,44,942, while 54 more patients succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said.The daily case tally shot up in the financial capital after remaining below 8,000 for the last two days.On Monday, the city had...
20:44
Alessandra Galloni has been named by Reuters as its next editor-in-chief, the first woman to lead the globe-spanning news agency in its 170-year history. 'A native of Rome, Galloni, 47, will replace Stephen J Adler, who is retiring this month after leading the newsroom for the past decade....
20:44
Campaigning for the fifth phase of the West Bengal assembly elections to 45 seats ended on Wednesday. The campaigning ended at 6.30 pm, while polling is scheduled to be held on April 17. The Election Commission increased the silence period from 48 to 72 hours in view of the Cooch Behar...
20:38
India sends Covishield to Bhutan
'When plotted on a graph, the curve of Bhutan's COVID-19 vaccination drive shoots upwards from the very first day, crossing Israel, the United States, Bahrain and other countries known for vaccinating people rapidly,' reports Associated Press. 'The tiny Himalayan kingdom wedged between India...
20:35
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh was on Wednesday questioned for eight hours by the Central Bureau of Investigation conducting the preliminary enquiry on orders of the Bombay high court in connection with the allegations of corruption raised against him by former Mumbai police chief...
20:21
Cops conduct a march in Sangli
The tough new measures announced by the Maharashtra government for the next 15 days to break the COVID-19 transmission chain and curb the rising cases came into force on Wednesday night.The lockdown-like restrictions, which exclude essential services, became operational at 8 pm and will remain in...
19:51
Climate change will make summer monsoon rainfall in India stronger and more erratic, according to a study that predicts extremely wet years in the future, with potentially grave consequences for over a billion people's well-being, economy, food systems and agriculture. The study,...
19:44
While class 10 students heaved a sigh of relief after their board exams were cancelled in view of the surge in COVID-19 cases, those in class 12 say the postponement of their papers will add to the anxiety about their future study plans. Delayed college admissions, hampered plans to study...
19:01
The issue of availability of Remdesivir was reviewed by Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State For Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Chemicals and Fertilizers, in meetings with all existing manufacturers of the Remdesivir drug and other stakeholders on April 12 and 13 where decisions have been...
18:21
A model has been developed by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur researchers predicting alteration in metabolic reaction rates of lung cells post SARS-CoV-2 infection.The research would lead to a better understanding of metabolic reprogramming and aid the development of better therapeutics...
18:17
Amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases in the national capital, COVID-19 ICU beds with ventilators are fully occupied in 69 of 94 hospitals with such facilities and only 79 beds are vacant, according to data shared on an official app on Wednesday. According to the Delhi...
18:14
The West Bengal government on Wednesday issued a directive to air passengers coming to the state from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Telegana to carry reports of their RT-PCR negative status conducted 72hours before boarding the flights, a senior official said.The directive was given in view...
18:09
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said her party is always striving towards achieving the path shown by Bhim Rao Ambedkar of building a strong nation where every citizen progresses without discrimination. Paying rich tributes to Ambedkar on his 130th birth anniversary, she said...
17:12
Maharashtra has approached neighbouring states for medical oxygen supply amid the COVID-19 surge, but they have expressed their inability due to its high demand there, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday. Talking to reporters, Tope said Maharashtra will have to reduce the wastage of...
17:07
Columnist, editor and writer Anil Dharker who passed away on March 26, was also founder and festival director of Literature Live. His friends, colleagues and associates will hold a condolence meet, a digital one, amid Covid times, on April 17, where they will share stories and anecdotes...
16:55
Dr Reddy's Laboratories is in the process of generating additional stability data for Russia's COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, which has a storage condition of -18C, on 2 to 8 C, a senior official of the drug maker said on Wednesday. Deepak Sapra, Dr Reddys Chief Executive Officer, API...
16:12
In Rajasthan, 320 doses of COVAXIN go missing from the cold storage of Hari Bux Kanwatia Govt hospital, Jaipur. An FIR has been registered. The Nodal Officer of the vaccination centre says, There's systematic record of doses coming at centre. So it's suspected that vaccines went missing from...
15:56
CJI Sharad Bobde
Chief Justice of India Sharad Bobde on Wednesday said B R Ambedkar had proposed Sanskrit as the official national language of India as he understood the political and social issues well and knew what the people wanted. The CJI also said the ancient Indian text Nyayshastra is not a bit...
15:48
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Rahul Gandhi's 1st rally in West Bengal. The rally is being held in Uttar Dinajpur. He says, BJP wants to destroy and divide Bengal, they are doing same thing in Assam and Tamil Nadu. BJP has nothing to offer except hatred and violence. West Bengal is the only state where you have to pay...
15:24
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will announce a national lockdown only after the elections in West Bengal are over, as he is prioritising polls over people's lives. Speaking to reporters, Patole said national reports have...
14:59
Future Retail on Wednesday said Amazon has approached Supreme Court against a Delhi High Court order which stayed a single judge's order restraining Future Retail Ltd from going ahead with its Rs 24,713 crore deal with Reliance Retail to sell its business. The company's advocates are in...
14:56
Dr GVG Krishnamurthy, former Election Commissioner of India, passed away today at the age of 86 years due to age-related ailments.
14:55
Ambulances seen in long queues outside the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. The waiting time has increased. For the last 10 days, emergency flow has gone up, over 4500 cases every day. Most of them are COVID patients, 60 more ambulances have been added, Head-Ops, 108 emergency services
14:49
The US did not break international law when its Navy ship carried out a freedom of navigation operation in the Indian exclusive economic zone last week, but it did show disrespect which must be addressed diplomatically, senior Congress leader and former UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor...
14:47
'On March 9, when an investigation by Swedish network SVT, Germany's Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, or ZDF, and India's Confluence Media claimed that road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari had received a luxury bus from Swedish truck and bus maker Scania for personal...
14:41
Throwing caution to the wind amid rising cases of coronavirus, thousands of seers congregated on Wednesday at Har ki Pairi in Haridwar to take a dip in the Ganga during the third shahi snan of the Kumbh mela. The royal bath' marked Mesh Sankranti and Baisakhi, and fell two days after a...
14:27
A study assessing the benefits of mixing and matching coronavirus vaccines has been extended to include the Moderna and Novavax jabs. The Com-Cov study, led by the University of Oxford, has been investigating the immune responses of volunteers given a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine...
14:16
Uttar Pradesh health officials were on Wednesday sent to Ahmedabad to procure 25,000 Remdesivir injections on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's directions. Remdesivir is considered a key antiviral drug in fight against COVID-19, especially among adults with severe complications.CM has directed...
14:09
The CBSE board Exams for Class XII to be held from May 4 to June, 14, 2021 are postponed. These exams will be held hereafter. The situation will be reviewed on 1st June 2021 by the Board, and details will be shared subsequently. A notice of at least 15 days will be given before the...
14:03
India should lower the age for vaccination to 18 years to include all adults for inoculation as that is the only solution at this point to break the chain of transmission of the coronavirus, which is fast-spreading, said Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia.Sisodia urged the Centre and the...
13:41
In light of the growing concerns amid a sudden upsurge of COVID-19 cases and as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of infection, the Supreme Court has made a Covid-19 test mandatory for everyone who enters its premises with symptoms of the disease.The Supreme Court has come out with...
13:26
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath says that he has tested positive for COVID-19. He is in self-isolation.
13:24
Voting for the first of the four-phase Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections, seen as a semi-final to the 2022 Assembly election, will be held on Thursday in 18 districts with ballot papers. More than 3.33 lakh candidates in the fray in over 2.21 lakh seats in the first phase for the posts of zila...
13:09
A sedentary lifestyle is associated with more severe COVID-19 infection and an increased risk of dying from the viral disease, according to a large-scale study. Researchers, including those from the University of California San Diego, found that COVID-19 patients in the US who were...
13:06
The deceased patient's son
As the PM and HM continue to focus on the Bengal elections and the health minister continues to deny shortages of vaccines and oxygen and beds, patients suffer and die. A COVID patient died in the hospital premises allegedly after Patna's NMCH hospital didn't admit him for long. My...
12:36
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met the families of those killed in Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar, violence. She is at a place called Mathabhanga which translated, literally means: matha: head, bhanga: broken. Didi came to meet us here and said that she would help us as soon as the election ends....
12:18
Actor Alia Bhatt on Wednesday said she has tested negative for COVID-19, more than 10 days after contracting the virus. Bhatt had tested positive for COVID-19 on April 2 and was under home quarantine. The 28-year-old actor took to Instagram and shared a picture of herself, writing,...
12:13
Veteran actor Ashutosh Rana recently revealed that he has tested positive for COVID-19.The 'Raaz' actor shared a detailed post on Facebook in Hindi and informed his fans and followers about his current health condition on Tuesday. As Rana revealed the news, he first spoke about the occasion...
12:04
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting with the Union education minister and key officials on Wednesday to discuss the issue of CBSE board exams, government sources said. Class 10 and 12 exams are set to begin from May 4 amid demand by some leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister...
11:51
The net indirect tax collection in 2020-21 grew 12.3 per cent annually to Rs 10.71 lakh crore, thereby exceeding the target set in revised estimates, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. The mop-up through indirect taxes, which include GST, Customs and excise duties, was Rs 9.54 lakh crore...
11:48
Migrants at LTT buying tickets to leave Mumbai
Several people gathered outside the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus here on Wednesday to board long- distance trains, a day after the Maharashtra government announced severe restrictions on public movement to check the spread of COVID-19. The Central Railway (CR) appealed to people not to panic...
11:25
PM to hold a meeting with Education Minister, Secretary & other important officials at 12 noon to discuss the issue of CBSE Board Exams: Govt of India Sources.Finally, attention to important issues and not just taking over West Bengal.
11:01
Former Maharashtra HM Anil Deshmukh
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh appeared before the CBI on Wednesday for questioning in connection with the allegations of corruption levelled against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, an official said. Deshmukh reached the DRDO guest house, where a team...
10:55
COVID-19 cases are increasing in Pune every passing day, but Private hospitals are facing problems in treating patients due to shortage of oxygen supply and Remdesivir injections.Currently, there are hardly any ventilator beds available in the city hospitals as the flow of patients has been...
10:50
Drive-through RT-PCR testing launched at GMDC Ground in Ahmedabad today. It will help to contain COVID by limiting the lab rush. Those getting tested have to register via QR code. Report to be sent in 24 hours, says one of the organizers.
10:22
Former Uttar Pradesh CM and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav tests positive for COVID-19, says he is in home isolation.
10:21
Thane has reported5,056 new cases of coronavirus, raising the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 3,90,124, an official said on Wednesday. These new cases were recorded on Tuesday, he said. The virus also claimed the lives of 27 more people, pushing the death toll in Thane...
10:15
Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh arrives at DRDO guest house in Mumbai. CBI had summoned him for questioning in connection with alleged corruption case
10:08
Mamata Banerjee wipes her face with a gamcha
The Shiv Sena on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission was biased against Mamata Banerjee, after the poll panel recently barred the West Bengal chief minister from campaigning for 24 hours over certain remarks made by her. The stature of a constitutional body like the Election...
09:50
No social distancing, no masks and unbelievable cussedness have ensured at least 102 pilgrims and 20 seers have tested positive for Covid-19 at the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.
09:39
India recorded 1,84,372 fresh COVID-19 cases in biggest daily spike so far and 1,027 deaths in 24 hours. India's total tally is now:Total cases: 1,38,73,825Total recoveries: 1,23,36,036 Active cases: 13,65,704 Death toll: 1,72,085 ...
09:17
220 out of 361 or 61 per cent of the Covid-19 samples taken in Maharashtra from January to March and genome sequenced had the double mutation E484Q and L452R, now classified as B.1.617 lineage, the data shared by the National Institute of Virology Pune, shows.The central government had announced...
08:42
The Congress party has called a meeting of its working committee on April 17 to discuss the Covid-19 situation in the country.This is the first time the Congress Working Committee, the partys top executive body, has called a meeting exclusively to discuss the pandemic. The second wave of Covid-19...
08:16
A delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs will meet Election Commission officials in Delhi on Wednesday afternoon, the party said. The delegation will include parliamentarians Derek O'Brien, Kalyan Banerjee, Pratima Mondal and Santanu Sen. They are scheduled to reach the Election...
07:55
At least 102 pilgrims and 20 seers have tested positive for Covid-19 as religious heads have refused to get tested, wear masks and not follow social distancing at Haridwar's Maha Kumbh Mela. According to the Kumbh body about one lakh seers were at the religious congregation on...
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