- Sunday, May 19, 2024
INDIAN government data on Wednesday (4) showed that the gender disparity in India's Covid-19 immunisation drive has narrowed. Now, the country is allowing pregnant women to get their jabs and authorities try to dispel rumours about fertility. Women have received about 47 per cent of the 481 million vaccine doses…
AT LEAST six nationals of African countries were injured during scuffle with police in India’s southern Bangalore city over the alleged custodial death of a Congolese student, an official said. Joel Shindani Malu, 27, was detained by police on Sunday (1) over charges of possessing a small cache of banned…
FIRST Sikh attorney general in the US and New Jersey’s longest-serving attorney general Gurbir S Grewal has said that public safety is just about trust and no need to overcomplicate it, the New York Times reported. He was recently selected to run a key enforcement division for the Securities and…
INDIA's PV Sindhu created history on Sunday (1) as she became the first woman ever to win two individual Olympics medals for the country. She won the match against China's He Bing Jiao 21-13, 21-15 to claim the bronze medal. She lost in the semi-final on Saturday (31) to Tai…
THE Delta variant of the coronavirus is not specifically targeting children, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The WHO's Covid-19 technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove said the evidence showed that the variant first detected in India was rather being transmitted among people who were socially mixing. "Let me be…
INDIA's Ayush ministry has collaborated with the UK's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to conduct clinical trials of Ashwagandha to study the efficacy of the herb on Covid patients. The All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), under the Ayush ministry, and LSHTM recently signed a memorandum of…
THE mastermind behind a 2019 attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitary troops has been killed in a shootout with security forces, Indian police in Kashmir said. Mohammad Ismail Alvi, the commander of militant organization Jaish-e-Mohammad was killed south of the regional capital Srinagar, Vijay Kumar, the police chief of Kashmir…
SCIENTISTS have warned that Britain will have to face the prospect of thousands of annual Covid deaths in the coming years, The Guardian reported. The disease will circulate alongside flu and other seasonal viruses and become part of accepted winter illness, they added. According to them, Covid is likely to…
THE total death toll in India due to the monsoon has reached over 230. The most number of deaths happened in the past two weeks, officials said. As many as 11 people were killed in eastern India after torrential rains swept away homes and triggered landslides, reports said. Rainstorms that…
THE US immigration agency will conduct a rare second lottery for the H-1B visa applicants to decide on the successful ones who could not make it in the first random selection. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Friday (30) said that a decision was taken after determining that…
