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A total of 308 people from 78 families have been relocated from disaster-prone areas to relief camps in Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram where the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert due to Cyclone Tauktae, on Friday.Thiruvananthapuram district collector Navjot Khosa...
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Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh's nephew, Abhay Singh Sandhu, passed away on Friday at a private hospital in Mohali due to post-COVID complications.Expressing condolences over the demise of Sandhu (63), Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said the social activist, passed away at Fortis...
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The Mumbai civic body on Friday decided to suspend its COVID-19 vaccination drive for the next two days in view of the warning about cyclone Tauktae.There would be no inoculation on May 15 and 16, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation tweeted.Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani...
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Maharashtra on Friday reported 39,923 new COVID-19 cases and 695 deaths, the state health department said.The number of new infections dipped below 40,000 for the first time since March 31 when 39,544 cases had been recorded.On Thursday, the daily case count was 42,582.The state's caseload now is...
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The body of Soumya Santhosh from Kerala, who was killed in a Palestinian rocket attack in Israel on May 11, will be brought here on Saturday.Minister of State for External AffairsV Muraleedharan said on Friday that the mortal remains werebeing repatriated from Israel to Kerala via New...
20:24
Messaging app WhatsApp told the Delhi high court on Friday that it is not forcing any user to accept the 2021 update in its privacy policy as it is not mandatory.It said that users will have a choice whether to accept the 2021 update, or they can choose not to do so, and are free to delete their...
20:14
The Karnataka government on Friday asked those who took the Covishield vaccine not to come to vaccination centres if they have not completed 12 weeks of the first dose, citing advisory of expert groups.In a press release, the vaccination mission director said the second dose of Covishield vaccine...
19:32
The BSE benchmark on Friday swung between gains and losses during the session, before finally finishing 41.75 points or 0.09 per cent higher at 48,732.55. However, the broader NSE Nifty slipped 18.70 points or 0.13 per cent to 14,677.80.Asian Paints was the top performer among the...
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The Kerala government on Friday announced that the total lockdown being enforced in the state from May 8 to May 16 will be extended till May 23 to contain the massive spread of Covid-19. The decision to extend the lockdown was taken in view of high test positivity rates in districts, Chief...
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The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive over Kerala on May 31, a day earlier than its normal onset date, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday.The normal onset date of the monsoon over Kerala is June 1.This year, the onset of the southwest monsoon over Kerala is likely to be...
18:45
Superstar Salman Khan on Friday received the second dose of the novel coronavirus vaccine.The 55-year-old actor, who got the first jab of the vaccine in March, was spotted at a centre in Dadar in Mumbai.Recently in an interview, Salman Khan had shared that his parents, veteran screenwriter Salim...
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Five districts of Kerala were put under a red alert on Friday by India Meteorological Department (IMD) in view of the developing low-pressure areas over Lakshadweep and the Arabian sea that are expected to intensify into Cyclone Tauktae.In the revised weather forecast, IMD sounded a red alert for...
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A person who has Covid but also has another disease can be classified as a Covid death or not.It serves the immediate purpose of the government to pretend that the official number is low because it makes it appear less incompetent and helpless than it is, points out Aakar...
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The premises of Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai's residence at Shiggavi in Haveri district has been turned into a Covid Care Centre (CCC) that can house 50 patients. Bommai, who also represents Shiggavi Assembly constituency, has also appointed doctors and medical staff to take...
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IMD: Depression over Lakshadweep area moved north-northeastwards with a speed of 19 kmph during past 6 hours, intensified into a deep depression and lay centred at 2:30 pm today over Lakshadweep area and adjoining southeast and east-central Arabian Sea.It is very likely to intensify into a...
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'The judiciary came to the rescue of an Army officer, Colonel Iven Singh, an officer in the Territorial Army who exposed alleged corruption in recruitment in the Army, but eventually landed himself in trouble. The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court quashed disciplinary proceedings against the...
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Delhi Police seek a reply from BJP MP from East Delhi, Gautam Gambhir over the distribution of Fabiflu drug. We've provided all details. I will keep serving Delhi and its people to the best of my abilities always, he says.
17:13
UP police asking people not to dump bodies in the Ganga
In Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, a police official makes an announcement while plying the Ganga. Please do not perform water burial of bodies into Ganga river, but cremate them. If any person is unable to bear expenses of cremation, please inform us. We will make arrangements.The Ghazipur...
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Oxygen cylinders being installed in a Jeevan Rath bus in Jaipur
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday urged the sugar cooperative industry to produce oxygen, much needed for hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. He was speaking after attending the virtual inauguration of an oxygen production plant of Dharashiv Sugar Cooperative...
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Meditation and yoga at a Covid hospital
-- Telangana High Court stays the state government's order to allow ambulances with patients coming from neighbouring states only if they have prior tie-up with hospitals. -- A police constable, who was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a hospital for 2 weeks, today died due to...
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The family of Pari, a 5-month-old baby who died due to COVID-19 on 12th May, mourns her demise at their residence. She died at GTB Hospital where she was under treatment and on ventilator since 6th May. She was cremated at Seemapuri crematorium. Pari's father says, She was burning with...
15:57
JK Rowling helps India battling the 2nd Covid wave. Once again, a huge thank you to everyone who bought a copy of The Ickabog. As a result, my charitable trust continues to be able to support those worst affected by the pandemic #COVIDIndia.Khalsa Aid, replied, tweeting, Wow! We are delighted...
15:42
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the coronavirus pandemic is rapidly spreading in rural areas, as he urged citizens to take precautions, wear masks and maintain social distance to check spread disease that has claimed at least 2.6 lakh lives. The government, he said, is working on...
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Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV with Rahul Gandhi
Indian Youth Congress (IYC) president Srinivas BV on Friday said the Delhi Police's Crime Branch questioned him about the assistance being provided by him to people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Police called me this morning and came to my office around 11.45 am. They questioned that...
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Before you reach for champagne to celebrate the vaccine deliveries, this is what a senior virologist says: We need more that 2 million doses per day to combat Covid. Read the report here.
14:55
People wait to get vaccinated in Mumbai
Finally, some good news on the vaccine front. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar says the Central government will supply nearly 1.92 crore Covid vaccines to states/UTs, free of cost, during the fortnight of 16th-31st May 2021. This comes amid a continuing scarcity of Covid vaccinations across...
14:40
Thirteen more COVID-19 patients died at the Goa Medical College and Hospital in the early hours of Friday, a senior health department official said, taking to 75 the number of people who have succumbed at the government-run facility in Panaji in the last four days.The horror at the GMCH is...
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India was fortunate to escape the fatality and severity experienced by countries like the USA, the UK and Italy in the first wave.This fortunate collective escape led to the misconstrued notion of complacency among every stake holder -- government, policy makers and to some extent, few in the...
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Two more bodies found lying on the banks of the Ganga were cremated by the Ballia district administration, after a video of a few stray dogs dragging and mauling the corpses went viral on social media. Fefna SHO Sanjay Tripathi said he got the information about the corpses on Thursday...
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The pyres have been burning 24X7 in Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he too feels the same pain and loss that people across the country are feeling after losing loved ones to COVID-19.While speaking on the occasion of the transfer of the eighth installment under the PM-KISAN, PM Modi called the coronavirus an...
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A Covid patient breathes easy with an oxygen cylinder
The Delhi High Court Friday declined to grant interim protection from arrest to Navneet Kalra, seeking anticipatory bail in connection with alleged black marketing of oxygen concentrators, agreeing with the reasons given by the trial court while denying him the relief. A sessions court...
12:58
Mille Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill are set to return for the sequel to their hit Netflix film Enola Holmes. The streamer and Legendary have officially started developing the follow-up part to 2020 female-centric Sherlock Holmes hit. I can't wait to collaborate again with my Enola...
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This is a national shame. And it happened just 400 km away from hip Mumbai.A 35-year-old woman, who married for a second time post-divorce, was ordered by a 'caste panchayat' of her community to lick spit as punishment in Maharashtra's Akola district, an official said on Friday. The...
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Drug firm Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Friday said as part of a limited pilot, the soft launch of the COVID vaccine Sputnik V has commenced and the first dose of the vaccine was administered in Hyderabad. The first consignment of imported doses of the Sputnik V vaccine landed in India on May...
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A woman celebrates getting her first vaccine shot
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain gives an update on the Covid and vax situation in the national capital.-- Covaxin stock has almost ended. We only have 2-3 days of stock for Covidshield vaccines for 18- 44 years of age group. We can't mix already assigned centers for Covaxin and Covishield...
12:18
81000 vials of Remdesivir from the US arrive in Mumbai. The MEA has been careful not to use the word 'aid' to all the shipments coming in to India from over 40 countries, fight the 2nd wave of Covid. Guess it goes against the Centre's 'atmanirbhar' policy, which hasn't worked. In fact, a report...
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday shared the arduous process of procuring oxygen concentrators and ventilators for donation as he said every individual effort goes a long way in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Giving an update about the Care Centre at Delhi Rakabganj...
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Bharat Biotech on Friday said it has dispatched the Covid vaccine Covaxin to various states like Gujarat, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Odisha. The Hyderabad-based vaccine major, which has come under fire from the Delhi government over supply-related issues, said it has also dispatched...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday released the eighth installment of over Rs 20,000 crore to more than 9.5 crore farmer beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Friday via video-conferencing. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, who was...
11:33
People queue up for vaccinations which are scarce
When a caregiver succumbs to Covid-19, reactions from people only reinforce class prejudices. Read the column here.
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UP CM Yogi Adityanath visits a covid ward
As many as 30,000 vials of Tocilizumab, a drug often prescribed by doctors to treat COVID-19 patients, were imported to India within 11 days by the Central government to cater to the increasing demand across the country due to rising cases.Sources of the Union Chemical and Fertilisers Ministry...
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As many as 52 people have died due to Mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection, in Maharashtra since the COVID-19 outbreak last year, a senior health department official said on Friday. Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, became a much talked about subject after some...
10:41
Equity benchmark Sensex opened on a positive note on Friday, but soon pared initial gains and dropped over 150 points, tracking losses in index majors HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and TCS. The 30-share BSE index was trading 158.99 points or 0.33 per cent lower at 48,531.81. Similarly, the broader...
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The Times group chairperson, Indu Jain, 84, died on Thursday due to Covid-related complications. Her son and managing director of the group, Vineet tweeted this about her passing away: 'My mother #InduJain believed that death is not something to be mourned but a soul changing clothes to...
10:24
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday said the temporary pause on flights from India to Australia will end at May 14 midnight and facilitated commercial flights by the Australian Government will resume as promised, with a strict pre-flight testing regime.In a Facebook post, Morrison...
10:03
The only way out of the Covid nightmare is stepping up vaccination
India reports 3,43,144 new COVID-19 cases, 3,44,776 discharges and 4,000 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry.Total cases: 2,40,46,809 Total discharges: 2,00,79,599 Death toll: 2,62,317 Active cases: 37,04,893 Total vaccination: 17,92,98,584
09:54
Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Thursday said that coronavirus is a living organism which has a right to live. Seen from a philosophical angle, coronavirus is also a living organism. It has the right to live like the rest of us. But we (humans) think...
09:42
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid, who was arrested in connection with the 2020 Delhi riots, has recovered from COVID-19 in Tihar jail and returned to his cell, officials said on Thursday. A senior official said Khalid, 33, was isolated within the Tihar jail premises...
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Times Group chairperson Indu Jain died on Thursday due to Covid-related complications, company sources said. She was 84.Hailing her as a visionary, Times Now TV channel, part of the Times Group, described Jain as a lifelong spiritual seeker, pioneering philanthropist, distinguished patron of the...
09:10
The United States defense forces are preparing to send 159 oxygen concentrators to India via a commercial flight next week, the Pentagon said.Defense Logistics Agency is preparing 159 oxygen concentrators at Travis Air Force Base. They are scheduled to ship via commercial air for a Monday, that's...
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In the biggest indication that the United States is fast returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said fully vaccinated people are no longer required to wear masks.The recommendation holds true for both indoors and outdoors, the CDC said.Following the...
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