23:53
Tell your mother, I will be the chief minister one day, Assam's new Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had told a young Riniki Bhuyan, who became his wife later, when he himself was a student of Cotton College in Guwahati.He was completely focused even in his student days, and very sure of...
23:35
The B-1617 variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, has been classified as a variant of concern at the global level by the World Health Organisation (WHO).Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, COVID-19 Technical Lead at the WHO, said Monday that the B.1.617 virus variant that was first identified...
22:47
The number of daily coronavirus positive cases in Maharashtra, which has been reeling under the resurgent pandemic, dropped below 40,000 to 37,236 on Monday for the first time after March 31.Maharashtra's overall caseload now stands at 51,38,973 while 549 fatalities pushed the toll 76,398, the...
22:32
Three warships of the Indian Navy brought to India on Monday over 80 tonnes of liquid oxygen, around 4,300 oxygen cylinders and a large number of other medical supplies from abroad as the country continued to reel under a severe second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.The medical supplies brought...
22:01
All the newly elected 77 Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs in West Bengal are being provided a cover of central security forces in view of potential threats to them, official sources said on Monday.They said the Members of the Legislative Assembly will be secured by armed commandos of the Central...
21:08
Mumbai on Monday recorded a steep drop in new coronavirus cases at 1,794, the lowest single-day count in nearly two months, while 74 patients succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said.With the addition of 1,794 new coronavirus infections and 74 fresh fatalities, the financial...
20:59
Manoj Sinha
The official Twitter handle of Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha was suspended briefly due to an automated systems error and was restored later. A Twitter spokesperson, when approached, said, The account was flagged by our automated systems in error. This action has been reversed,...
20:28
Mumbai's slum sprawl Dharavi reported nine new COVID-19 infections on Monday, its single-digit case count after two months, a senior civic official said.The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said with the addition of nine fresh cases, the tally of COVID-19 infections in the...
20:15
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is serving life term at a jail here for raping a teenage girl, has sought bail from the Rajasthan high court for 'Ayurvedic treatment' in Haridwar after testing COVID-19 positive.Last Wednesday, after he tested positive for the infection and complained of...
19:47
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat, Wipro Group founder Azim Premji and spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev are among the speakers of an online lecture series organised by the Sangh and other civil society groups to infuse confidence and positivity among people as they fight the COVID-19...
19:44
J-K Lt Governor Manoj Sinha
The official Twitter handle of Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha was suspended on Monday but Raj Bhawan officials maintained that it was a technical error which was being rectified at the earliest.The '@OfficeOfLGJandK' handle with over 50,000 followers had an account suspension notice...
19:02
The Centre has ruled out in the Supreme Court door-to-door vaccination of people and said the inoculation will be done at identified COVID Vaccination Centres, both government and private, registered on COWIN for good, germane and rational reasons.It said that four key requirements of CVC under...
18:33
The Maharashtra government would form a task force in every district to protect children orphaned by COVID-19, an official said on Monday.The task force will be headed by collectors and will comprise commissioners of civic bodies, police chiefs, rural health officials etc of the district, a...
18:24
The Bombay High Court has permitted Biovet Private Limited, an associate company of Bharat Biotech, to take possession of a fully operational and ready-to-use vaccine manufacturing plant on a 12-hectare plot in Pune to produce Covaxin. Bharat Biotech produces Covaxin, a vaccine against...
18:07
Update: Several bodies, decomposed, bloated and suspected to be of people who succumbed to COVID 19, were on Monday found floating in the river Ganga in a Bihar district. Officials in Chausa block of Buxar, which borders Uttar Pradesh, rushed to the spot of the unseemly sight upon hearing...
17:39
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal says they have vaccine stock for just 3-4 days. We're placed orders with companies but I think Central govt is allocating the vaccines because we got a letter from the Central govt about the stock that we would get in a month. We request Centre to give us more...
17:18
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As many as seven COVID-19 patients, who were on ventilator support due to their critical condition, died at King Koti Hospital in Hyderabad on Sunday.Relatives of the patients alleged that delay in the oxygen supply is the reason behind these deaths. The oxygen tanker which was supposed to...
16:45
Around a dozen corpses have been seen floating down the Ganga in Buxar, Bihar. It seems these corpses were floating for the last 5-7 days. We don't have a tradition of immersing bodies in rivers. We are making arrangements to cremate these corpses, says Buxar SDO KK Upadhyay. It is a matter of...
16:10
Extending its gains for the fourth consecutive session, equity benchmark Sensex surged about 296 points to recapture the key 49,500-level on Monday, led by intense buying in pharma and energy stocks. At the closing bell, the 30-share BSE index quoted 295.94 points or 0.60 per cent...
16:08
The Congress Working Committee unanimously decided on Monday to postpone the election to the post of party president until the COVID-19 situation in the country improves, sources said.The Congress had earlier decided to have a new Congress president in place before June 2021 and the party's...
16:02
As it becomes increasingly apparent that the Centre has failed in handling the second Covid wave, people suffer. States are dependent on the Modi Government for quotas of oxygen, Remdesivir and Tocilizumab injections.In Tamil Nadu, a large crowd and long queues are seen at the Government...
15:54
The finance ministry on Monday said provisioning Rs 35,000 crore-expenditure for vaccines in the Union Budget for FY22 under the title 'Transfers to States' does in no way inhibit the central government from using the funds to buy COVID-19 shots. The amount of Rs 35,000 crore provided in the...
15:27
Ola Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Ola, on Monday said it has partnered with donation platform GiveIndia to provide consumers with oxygen concentrators, joining the growing roster of companies contributing towards relief efforts amid the deadly second wave of the COVID pandemic. The...
15:10
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweets:PM's new residence & Central vista cost = Rs 20,000 cr = 62 crore vaccine doses = 22 crore Remdesvir vials = 3 crore 10 litre oxygen cylinders = 13 AIIMS with a total of 12,000 beds WHY? The Modi government's Central Vista...
15:00
Telangana police on Monday started restricting patients coming to the city in ambulances from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh at border places, a move aimed at avoiding scenes of patients waiting for beds near hospitals, police officials said. They said the patients who have confirmed...
14:42
All states must ensure special teams at different levels to mercilessly clamp down on hoarding and black marketing of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic and send a clear message that trading in human miseries shall not be tolerated, the Centre has told the Supreme Court. In an...
14:36
As Karnataka observes a 14-day lockdown from today, Police Commissioner Kamal Pant, Additional Chief Secy Vandita Sharma, BBMP Commissioner Gourav Gupta and other senior officials inspected a market today to chekc if lockdown protocol was being observed. Our health inspectors along with police...
14:23
Karnataka has been recording the highest number of Covid-19 cases after Maharashtra and is now the second worst-hit state in the country. Even as cases continue to spike, experts have said Bengaluru may see the second wave of Covid-19 start flattening only after May 17.According to a report in...
13:48
A black-marketeer of oxygen cylinders was arrested in Delhi
A Delhi Court Monday refused to grant any stay on coercive action against businessman Navneet Kalra in connection with the seizure of oxygen concentrators from his restaurants 'Khan Chacha' by the Delhi Police. Kalra, against whom the Delhi Police's Crime Branch has launched a manhunt, moved...
13:37
A special oxygen train has arrived at Delhi Cantt Railway station carrying 224.67 tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen from Hapa, Gujarat.
13:35
Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur COVID-19 Medical Isolation and Treatment Centre set up at Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib. This facility has been attached to LNJP Hospital. There is a ray of hope as number of cases is going down in Delhi, but we need to stay alert, says Delhi Health Minister
13:27
India skipper Virat Kohli received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Kohli also urged everyone to get vaccinated as soon as they can.Vaccinate as soon as you can please. Stay Safe, Kohli wrote in his Instagram story.India pacer Ishant Sharma and wife Pratima Singh also received...
13:26
Suvendu Adhikari, BJP MLA from Nandigram, elected as the Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Assembly. At least 43 members of the third cabinet of the Mamata Banerjee-government were on Monday sworn-in as ministers during a low-key ceremony at the Raj Bhawan.
13:24
A Covid centre in Ghaziabad
'Among the states affected by the second wave of Covid-19, Uttar Pradesh exemplifies the mix of incompetence and callousness that has characterised the Indian state response to the crisis the most,' write Ali Khan Mahmudabad and Gilles Verniers in the Indian Express. 'Beyond...
13:11
Children are likely to get affected in the 3rd Covid wave
The Madhya Pradesh government will set up 360 ICU beds for children in hospitals across the state as part of its preparations for the third wave of COVID-19, minister Vishwas Kailash Sarang said on Monday. Health experts recently warned of a third wave of the coronavirus infection in...
13:08
The vaccination strategy for COVID-19 has been formulated by the Centre in a just, equitable, non-discriminatory manner and any overzealous judicial intervention may result in unforeseen consequences, the government has told the Supreme Court. In an affidavit filed by the Centre in response...
12:59
JP Nadda visits poll violence affected people in Bengal
Moments after administering oath to the ministers of the Mamata Banerjee government, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday expressed concern over the situation arising out of post-poll violence in the state and said he would soon be visiting the affected areas. Dhankhar, while...
12:38
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday said the party has to take note of its serious setbacks in assembly polls, and face the reality to draw the right lessons. Addressing a crucial meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Gandhi said she intends to set up a small group to...
12:36
Senior journalist Raghu Karnad tweets: Natasha Narwal, a young activist framed for the Delhi riots, has lost her only parent to Covid. She could not speak to him before he died. Last August, the imprisoned activist GN Saibaba was refused a video call to see his dying mother one last time. A video...
12:34
Himanta Biswa Sarma sworn in as Chief Minister of Assam.
12:11
Natasha Narwal with her father. Pic courtesy: Twitter
Natasha Narwal, jailed activist, gets interim bail from Delhi High Court for last rites of father Mahavir Narwal who died of COVID-19.Natasha was arrested in May last year for allegedly being part of a premeditated conspiracy in the northeast Delhi riots in February that year.She has been booked...
12:05
Bharat Biotech has commenced direct supply of its COVID-19 vaccine 'Covaxin' to 14 states, including Delhi and Maharashtra, with effect from May 1, according to the company's Joint Managing Director Suchitra Ella. The Hyderabad-based firm has started supplying its COVID-19 treatment vaccine to...
12:00
Local residents record the fires from their roofs to show the world why they must wear masks even inside their homes. The smoke and smell of death is so constant, so thick, that it covers the narrow lanes for much of the day, seeping through shuttered windows.The flames bear witness to the...
11:55
Delhi government sends SOS to Centre on vaccines. The Arvind Kejriwal government says it has only enough Covaxin to last a day and Covishield enough for around four days. We need vaccines at the earliest, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said today.Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had earlier...
11:43
Arup Sengupta, the 70-year-old Covid Warrior whose services to humanity in these dark and dire times, passed away on Saturday, May 8, after a valiant battle with COVID-19. We mourn his passing and extend our heartfelt condolences to his son and to his family of dedicated volunteers. In May...
11:40
Long queues seen outside vaccination centres in Noida and Ghaziabad as the COVID-19 vaccination drive for 18 years and above commences in 11 more districts of the state today. America's top public health expert Dr Anthony Fauci said getting people vaccinated is the only long-term...
11:13
A total of 1,80,88,042 people have so far received COVID-19 vaccine doses in Maharashtra, the state government said on Monday. On Sunday, 1,10,448 beneficiaries received the jabs in the state, it said. According to an official statement, 4,36,302 individuals aged between 18 and 44...
11:07
Construction of the Central Vista project has begun
The prime minister's plans for Rajpath and India Gate are on another scale. When he's finished with it, we'll have two Parliaments for the price of one. One of his predecessors, Muhammad bin Tughlaq, ruined Delhi trying to transfer the capital to Daulatabad. His next brainwave was reforming the...
11:00
Chief Minister-designate Himanta Biswa Sarma visited Doul Gobinda Temple and Kamakhya Temple today before the swearing-in ceremony. BJP president JP Nadda will be present at the ceremony.
10:56
43 TMC leaders sworn-in as ministers in West Bengal cabinet. Governor Jagdeep Dhankar administered the oath to the ministers as a group and not individually.
10:52
INS Trikand reaches Mumbai with two 27 MT oxygen-filled containers from Qatar. The ship entered Hamad Port, Qatar on May 5 & embarked maiden shipment of oxygen containers which was facilitated by French Mission as part of oxygen solidarity bridge, says CO Capt Harish Bahuguna.
10:45
A West Bengal-based woman who died with COVID-19 symptoms at a hospital in Haryana was allegedly gang-raped while she was going to join the farmers' protest at Tikri border in Haryana.The police said they have formed a team including three inspectors which will be supervised by DSP with the cyber...
10:41
The swearing-in ceremony of Mamata Banerjee's cabinet to begin at Raj Bhavan shortly. Altogether 43 ministers, including 19 ministers of state, are likely to take oath, the source said. Governor Jagdeep Dhankar is not arrived yet. One of them will be Amit Mitra,...
10:38
India reports 3,66,161 new COVID19 cases, 3,53,818 discharges and 3,754 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry.Total cases: 2,26,62,575 Total discharges: 1,86,71,222 Death toll: 2,46,116 Active cases: 37,45,237 Total vaccination:...
10:29
Several fresh faces and a number of trusted lieutenants of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be sworn-in as ministers at the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata on Monday, a source in the Trinamool Congress said. Altogether 43 ministers, including 19 ministers of state, are...
10:24
Petrol and diesel prices on Monday hit record highs across the country after rates were increased for the fifth time in a week, following which Maharashtra joined Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in the league of states where petrol rates breached the Rs 100-a-litre mark. Petrol price was...
09:53
Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Sunday tested positive for coronavirus. A spokesman of the health department said that Rangasamy underwent an examination at the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College Hospital in Puducherry Sunday and tested positive for the virus.The...
09:26
Getting people vaccinated is the only long-term solution to the current COVID-19 crisis in India, America's top public health expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Sunday as he called for scaling up manufacturing of coronavirus vaccines both domestically and globally to fight the deadly pandemic.The...
09:22
Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons, according to media reports referring to documents obtained by the US State Department.According to The Sun...
08:51
Two days after a deadly bombing outside a school in Kabul claimed the lives of over 60 students, the Taliban on Monday announced that they would observe a three-day ceasefire for the festival of Eid.Mohammad Naeem, a Taliban spokesperson, said that all Mujahideen have been instructed to halt all...
08:18
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, on a request by the Central Bureau of Investigation, sanctioned the prosecution of Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee, all of them ministers during the time of the alleged commission of a crime that came to light in the purported...
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