The powerful cyclone, strongest to hit India in 20 years, made landfall at around 8 am in India's eastern state of Odisha, killing at least 12 people.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal shrugged off responsibility saying that he and his ministers had no powers and one should ask the PM.
'She used to call me every day to check whether I was all right. You know how mothers are!'
'The lockdown was for both: To flatten the curve or more correctly, delay the rapid spread of COVID outbreak, and to create healthcare infrastructure.'
India is also set to achieve the goal of reducing hunger by half and reduce maternal mortality by three quarters.
The actor reportedly suffering from malaria as well as kidney problems.
'Infectious disease is a given of humankind. There will always be another around the corner.'
'We cannot be naughty and expect the government to do good!' 'We have to behave ourselves and then we can expect the government to support us.' 'If we are able to protect ourselves well, then we should not be having deaths.' 'Unfortunately, people have gotten into this super scary event participation (mode) -- birthday parties, large gatherings.' 'Among the people who have attended those, 80 to 90 per cent of them have come down with COVID-19.'
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The sprawling President's Estate has been found to be breeding mosquitoes at many accumulated pools of stagnant water -- with 52 notices slapped on Rashtrapati Bhavan by the New Delhi Municipal Council.
A villager suspected of indulging in sorcery was lynched in a remote Adivasi-inhabited Kalabasi hamlet of Narayanpur tea estate in South Assam's Lakhipur sub-division by fellow villagers.
Here is a list of famous names from India as well as the world which are included.
Despite all odds, Jaya Alex's daughter chose to teach in a backward and underprivileged district in India.
The Delhi high court on Monday sought response of the Aam Aadmi Party government on a public interest litigation seeking direction to immediately release funds allocated for malaria and dengue control programmes to municipal bodies in the capital.
The 'wall of shame' is a novel method planned by Nadia district administration in which names of those who defecate in the open would be pasted on a village wall.
Yet the international response to this threat caused by the overuse and misuse of antimicrobial drugs has been feeble, they said.
Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh refuses to 'retreat in the face of threats'.
Vaihayasi Pande Daniel discovers Ross Island where the clock can never be turned back.
A staggering $18 trillion worth unaccounted money is stashed in tax havens.
Subra Suresh is one of the only 16 living Americans to be elected to all three national academies, the IOM, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.
The decision to impose 0.5 per cent cess will translate into a tax of 50 paise only on every Rs 100 worth of taxable services.
'When the courts intervene, we are attacked for judicial activism'
The device is intended for use in remote laboratory settings.
India is among the worst-ranked countries when it comes to taxation and inflation burden on economy, as also in terms of the negative impact of crime, terrorism and health hazards on business environment, a WEF report said.
'Our preparation is based on ICMR projections, whatever preparations we have to make.' 'If they project around 70,000 is the maximum number of hospital cases by mid-May or May 30, we are preparing accordingly -- how many people will need hospitalisation.'
Did you know that consuming milk and garlic will help increase your platelet count?
Rediff.com Senior Contributor P Rajendran reports from New York on how the Indian-American researcher's pioneering work may wipe out the visible effect of Alzheimer's disease.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has approached about a dozen well-known scientists from across the world in an effort to bring them back to various departments under the ministry, said Jitendra Singh, minister of state (independent charge) for science and technology.
Delhi is a year-round health hazard that visitors shun like the plague, says Sunil Sethi.
The predictions appear in the annual letter from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, chaired by the Microsoft Corp co-founder and former chief executive and his wife.
Time is running out: Will India manage to attain goals set by the UN.
Until September 14, Vaidehi Ankolekar was a bus conductor on Mumbai's famed BEST buses. Now, she is known nationwide as the mother of India's latest cricketing hero. That Saturday, her son Atharva bowled India to the Asia Cup Under-19 title.
As the issue becomes increasingly politicised and accusations are traded on national television, the average Delhi resident suffers debilitating blows from viral fevers, writes Manavi Kapur.
The impact from NELM on the Indian pharmaceutical sector is estimated to be around Rs 6,000 crore.
'Which is your favourite scene in the film?' 'The scene where I get beaten up by the police in the lock-up and my friend Murad (Ranveer Singh) comes to meet me.' 'It was an emotional scene and showed a tough guy like Moeen in a vulnerable state.' 'Also, you witness a deep friendship in that scene.' 'I know the value of friends and I know that a friend can unconditionally help another.' 'It's very reflective of my own life.'
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Candidates in the current state elections must be made to offer specific promises against which their performance can be measured, says Indira Rajaraman
Tapas Bose from Kolkata sent us this interesting story about his Rajdoot 175cc.
India alone accounts for more than one-fifth of deaths worldwide of children under the age of five, according to a new UN report released today, which said nearly 6.6 million kids died globally, last year, before reaching their fifth birthday.
'The Aam Aadmi's prophet is out of touch with both the city and his own flock.'
Eradicating the Aedes aegypti or developing a vaccine will take years. Genetic modification offers a way out; the question is how to scale it up across continents, says Devangshu Datta.
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