- Sunday, May 19, 2024
AN Indian state has raised its Covid-19 death toll sharply higher after the discovery of thousands of unreported cases, lending weight to suspicion that India's overall death tally is significantly more than the official figure. According to health ministry figures, 6,148 people died in the previous 24 hours, taking total fatalities to…
National award-winning filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta passed away at his residence in Kolkata on Thursday (10). The 77-year-old died due to old-age-related ailments. According to PTI, the family members said that he was having kidney ailments for a long time and was undergoing dialysis twice a week regularly. West Bengal Chief…
US president Joe Biden is set to announce plans on Thursday (10) to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to more than 90 countries while calling on the world's democracies to do their part to help end the deadly pandemic, the White House said. Biden…
A FORMER Indian cricketer has revealed that he faced 'casual racism' when he was a Lancashire player in England. Former wicketkeeper batsman Farokh Engineer has said that Indians were 'bloody Indians' to them during the time. "When I first came into county cricket, there were question marks like 'he is from…
By Pramod Thomas THE India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for Mumbai, and neighbouring Thane, Palghar and Raigad districts in Maharashtra on Thursday (10). It warns of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places during the day, local media reported. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) will…
By Pramod Thomas UBER on Wednesday (9) said that it plans to expand engineering and product operations and would recruit around 250 engineers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. This will strengthen rider and driver growth, delivery, eats, digital payments, risk and compliance, marketplace, customer obsession, infrastructure, adtech, data, safety and finance technology teams, the company…
By Pramod Thomas MUMBAI, Asia's most crowded city, has surprised many by tackling a vicious second wave with considerable success. The bodies began turning up early in India's financial capital during the first wave of infections last year -- a man collapsing on a busy road, a rickshaw driver slumped over…
By Pramod Thomas INDIA on Wednesday (9) reported 92,596 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, and 2,219 deaths from the coronavirus. The country's total Covid-19 case load now stands at 29.1 million, while total fatalities are at 353,528, according to data from the health ministry. The number of…
By Pramod Thomas US president Joe Biden's Indo-Pacific policy chief said on Tuesday (8) that he was "relatively confident" a target for the production of a billion vaccine doses for the region by the end of 2022 would be met, despite the Covid-19 crisis in India, where they are due to…
LIGHTNING strikes killed 27 people and four passengers on a flight were hospitalised after severe turbulence during monsoon storms in eastern India, officials said Tuesday (8). Lightning strikes during the June-September annual monsoon are fairly common in India. Officials said West Bengal was hit by thunderstorms late Monday (7), with…
