- Tuesday, May 07, 2024
At least 13 Naxals were killed in an encounter with police's C-60 commandos in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra early on Friday (21), officials said. The skirmish took place around 5.30 am in the forest at Kotmi in Etapalli, where the Naxals had gathered for a meeting, said Sandeep Patil, a…
DESCRIBING state and district officials as "field commanders" in the fight against Covid-19, prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (18) said localised containment zones, aggressive testing and sharing correct and complete information with people are weapons to defeat the pandemic. Interacting with them at a meeting, which was attended by…
FOUR people were killed in Gujarat as Cyclone Tauktae pounded parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction along the western coast, officials said on Tuesday (18). The landfall process of the eye of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae, which hit the Gujarat coast in Saurashtra…
INDIA made the “incorrect assumption” that it was finished with the Covid-19 pandemic and opened up prematurely that has left the country in such “dire straits”, America’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci told senators. India has been severely affected by the unprecedented second wave of the coronavirus and…
AUTHORITIES in northern India said they have installed a net across the Ganges river after the bodies of dozens of suspected Covid-19 victims washed up. The discovery of 71 corpses in Bihar state stoked fears that the virus was raging unseen in India’s vast rural hinterland where two-thirds of its…
VARIANT of Covid-19, which was first found in India, has been detected in more than 44 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday (12). The UN health agency said that the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19 has been detected in more than 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access database…
INDIA reported a record 412,262 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday (6) and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside. Covid-19 infections in the world’s second most populous nation have surged past 21 million,…
INDIA’S entire delegation in London to attend the G7 summit is isolating after two of its members tested positive for Covid-19, ther British government said on Wednesday (5). “Two delegates tested positive so the entire delegation is now self isolating,” a British official said. “The meeting had been enabled by…
INDIA released $6.7 billion in cheap financing for vaccine makers, hospitals and other health firms on Wednesday (5), to counter the devastating coronavirus surge gripping the country. Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das also vowed to deploy ‘unconventional’ measures if the crisis worsens. He spoke as India announced a…
INDIA accounted for nearly half of the Covid-19 cases reported worldwide last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday (5), as the country’s coronavirus deaths rose by a record 3,780 during the last 24 hours. The WHO said in its weekly epidemiological report that India accounted for 46…
