The death toll also saw a record single-day increase of over 350 fatalities to move closer to the 8,500-mark, more than one-third of which have been recorded in 11 days since June 1 -- the day that marked the beginning of a phased exit from most restrictions imposed under a nationwide lockdown with effect from March 25.
1mg has made buying medicines easy and it aims to do more in online health care.
There are some advantages of a falling rupee.
'I kept begging the doctors to put my three year old on the ventilator. But the doctors and nurses kept saying no ventilator was available. When the breathing apparatus ultimately became available, it was too late.'
'This is a long haul, god knows where it will end.' 'So it is best to conserve all the funds right now for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.'
It's not as easy to know how the funds were deployed and gauge the impact.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
Sandeep Shanbhag offers tips on post Budget taxation rates.
Salaried employees get several benefits under Sections 80C, 80D, 80G and others.
Lauding the Senate confirmation of 37-year-old Vivek Murthy as the youngest ever Surgeon General, more than a year after his nomination, US President Barack Obama has said the Indian-American physician would hit the ground running as the country's top doctor.
SC sought reply from Centre and Haryana over the boy's father's plea seeking CBI probe.
A number of countries allow you to become citizens by investing in government-approved projects or real estate or by buying bonds.
'It was fun trying to regulate ourselves and keep it in the family zone and yet, be tongue-in-cheek.'
A full panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied Gupta's petition for 'panel rehearing, or, in the alternative, for rehearing en banc'.
Take a look at the skills that matter and how you can acquire them.
Sheela Bhatt meets Bharti Patel, a truly exceptional mother of our times whose son Dr Vikram Patel was recently ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015, to find out her recipe for a remarkable upbringing.
Expressing happiness over the growth of the banking sector in the last 10 years, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today described it as a great achievement of the United Progressive Alliance rule.
Mobile tower radiation reaching us is more than a thousand times weaker than that from the handsets we use and the Indian standards are 10 times more stringent than the global norms recommended by the World Health Organisation, points out T V Ramachandran.
It also expressed confidence that the cleaning operation will be finished in a couple of days.
He was attending a panel discussion on how to end violence against women.
I am only suggesting greater sensitisation and understanding of adults' sexual and lifestyle choices, says Shekhar Gupta.
'Every educational institution should have incubating centres so that students will get exposed to entrepreneurship early.'
Sangopan started with a single maid and one nursemaid in 2011 and has now grown to a 12-member team.
Dinesh Patel, Utah's most high profile and influential Indian American, was conferred the Willem J Kolff Lifetime Achievement Award at BioUtah's 2013 Utah Life Science Award, the state's top science award ceremony.
Lt Col Raja "Grinder" Chari, 39 is in the batch of 2017.
'Rather than 'consolidate' the Hindu majority votes, as the BJP-RSS combine has been known and wont to try, this time round PM Modi has himself taken the party to the next step, by seeking to create a new divide within the majority community, a la V P Singh in his time.'
'My father thinks I'm not ambitious and too slow. He wants me to work in Hindi films with big superstars.' Meet Baahubali director, SS Rajamouli.
'Parents, grandparents, candidates, academicians -- almost all the stakeholders have a view on it, so any change is hard to bring about.'
Parents should secure thier special child's future.
The Forbes 30 Under 30 list is harder to get into than Stanford or Harvard University. Meet the desis who made the cut this year.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw talks to Nikita Puri about her book Mythbreaker.
State govt said it is not averse to seeking Army's help to maintain law and order.
'I would like to request the AERB, UCIL and DAE to introspect. The world is changing, so is India. The wave of development and modernity will not stop for those who continue to live in the past. The future belongs to the youth who believe in the values of honesty, transparency and efficiency.'
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
Purvi Patel is the first woman in America to be sentenced to prison for foeticide. Chaya Babu/Rediff.com reports on the verdict and the ripples of shock and fear it set off.
The NPPA letter was issued to GSK on Wednesday.
The Sikkim government is planning to convert an artificial lake, formed by a massive landslide in the state's northern part in August last year, into a tourist spot.
Aseem Chhabra spots 10 must-see movies at the Berlin Film Festival.
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