Shocking video shows Covid patient's body being thrown by relatives in river in UP
May 31, 2021, at 12:28 am
Balrampur/IBNS: A video of a body being thrown in a river in Uttar Pradesh has surfaced reminding the administration that the grim situation is still not over as the practice of dumping bodies of coronavirus patients in rivers or leaving them in shallow graves near river banks is still continuing even as the infections as well as deaths across the country have dropped to considerable levels.
Covid19: Delhi lockdown extended till June 7
May 30, 2021, at 05:51 am
Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi government has extended the lockdown imposed to control spiralling coronavirus infection till June 7 while allowing the construction and manufacturing sectors to resume work with restrictions.
Delhi: Sisodia slams Centre for vaccine distribution system over shortage
May 30, 2021, at 12:03 am
Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia Friday accused the Centre for stubbornly sitting on vaccine distribution system while pointing out shortage of vaccine jabs that forced the state government to suspend inoculation for 18-44 years age group last week.
Arvind Kejriwal announces phased unlock for Delhi as Covid positivity rate falls to 2 pc
May 29, 2021, at 08:18 am
Delhi/IBNS: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced phased unlocking of the Capital as 1,141 new cases were recorded from 71,853 tests that translated to 2 per cent positivity rate for three consecutive days.
Mumbai students with confirmed admission to foreign universities to be vaccinated on priority
May 29, 2021, at 07:30 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Students in Mumbai will be vaccinated on priority if they have got confirmed admissions to universities abroad and need to get inoculated before travelling to another country, the Maharashtra government said Friday.
'Significant adverse effects' unlikely : Centre says after vaccine doses mixed in UP and Maharashtra
May 29, 2021, at 04:08 am
New Delhi/IBNS: After over a dozen villagers in an Uttar Pradesh village were given a different coronavirus vaccine from their first dose, the Centre has said "significant adverse effects" are unlikely but also called it an oversight as no instruction to administer a cocktail of vaccines was given.
Covid-19: Former Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya stable in hospital
May 28, 2021, at 05:22 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Former West Bengal Chief Minister and veteran CPI (M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, who tested positive for coronavirus and has been undergoing treatment at Woodlands Hospital, is in a stable condition, a health bulletin from the hospital said Thursday.
Covid-19 restrictions extended in West Bengal
May 27, 2021, at 09:53 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: The ongoing Covid restrictions in West Bengal extended till June 15 amid rising cases of the infection.
May 27, 2021, at 07:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his barbed tweet on a New York Times report on Covid numbers in India, saying that playing politics on Covid deaths should be learned from "vultures of the earth".
Moderna's single dose Covid19 vaccine by 2022 in India
May 26, 2021, at 09:06 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Moderna is planning to launch a single dose vaccine for the Indian market only in 2022 as it has no surplus vaccines in 2021, media reports said.
Tata Steel pledges to continue salary, medical and housing benefits to employees who die of Covid19
May 26, 2021, at 06:31 am
Jamshedpur/IBNS: Tata Steel has announced that it will continue to pay salaries, including medical and housing benefits, to employees in India who fall victim to Covid-19 for the remaining period of their employment till the age of 60.
May 26, 2021, at 05:44 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Pfizer has offered 5 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses to India albeit with pre-conditions as the country ramps up production amid a raging pandemic.
Ramdev withdraws comments on allopathy after Harsh Vardhan's letter
May 24, 2021, at 05:02 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Sunday said he was withdrawing his comments, in which he allegedly said more people died of modern medical treatments during the COVID-19 crisis than the coronavirus itself, sparking a massive controversy.
Strict restrictions continue in Kashmir; no significant dip in fresh COVID-19 cases
May 23, 2021, at 09:47 pm
Srinagar/UNI: Strict restrictions continued for the fourth successive week on Sunday as there was no significant dip in the number of fresh coronavirus cases in Kashmir valley, where ‘COVID curfew’ remained imposed from April 29 to curtail the spread of the deadly infection.
No consensus on vaccine passport yet at WHO level: Centre
May 23, 2021, at 06:22 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The World Health Organization (WHO) is yet to reach a consensus on vaccine passport, which will enable international travel for individuals who have received coronavirus vaccine jabs, Health Ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal said Saturday, media reports said.
May 23, 2021, at 04:47 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has lambasted Yoga Guru Ramdev over his statement on allopathy and demanded the Union Health Ministry to either prosecute him under Epidemic Diseases Act 1897 or accept his accusations and dissolve the modern medical facility
Indian govt, Pfizer hit deadlock over issue of legal protection on vaccine side effects: Report
May 22, 2021, at 05:03 am
New Delhi/IBNS: US drug major Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is facing hurdles in entering the Indian market over demand for legal protection from any adverse effects that may follow after the use of its jabs, a Reuters report said, citing sources.
Centre asks Twitter to remove 'manipulated media' tags from alleged 'Congress toolkit' tweets
May 22, 2021, at 02:59 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Indian government has asked Twitter to remove "manipulated media" tag from tweets that claimed to expose the alleged "Congress toolkit"aimed at discrediting Centre's Covid-19 efforts, terming it "prejudicial, a clear overreach and unwarranted", media reports said.
May 22, 2021, at 01:56 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Friday said High Courts should avoid issuing orders that are impossible to implement in view of the sweeping impact of Covid-19, while staying a May 17 Allahabad High Court order on the management of the pandemic in Uttar Pradesh (UP), media reports said.
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, his wife test Covid-19 positive
May 19, 2021, at 06:43 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and his wife, Mira Bhattacharya, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday late evening, reports said.
May 19, 2021, at 05:14 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the Centre is taking all precautions and keeping a close eye on the situation in Singapore, responding to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's tweet asking for suspension of all flights to and from that country.
'Never exported vaccines at the cost of people of India': Adar Poonawalla
May 19, 2021, at 01:29 am
Pune/IBNS: Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII), the manufacturer of Covishield, on Tuesday said that his company has "never exported vaccines at the cost of the people of India".
Former IMA chief, Padma Shri awardee DR KK Aggarwal dies of Covid-19
May 18, 2021, at 11:37 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Former president of the Indian Medical Association, Dr KK Aggarwal, and a prominent medical man in India, succumbed to Covid-19 last night.
May 18, 2021, at 10:39 pm
Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi High Court today dismissed a petition that sought to do away with clinical trials of foreign vaccines and priority vaccination for those, who have already been administered the first dose, according to media reports.
May 18, 2021, at 09:47 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has warned the Central government against a new Covid variant found in Singapore, which is affecting children dangerously, and asserted that it can lead to a third wave in India unless immediate measures are taken, including suspension of flights to and from Singapore.
Covid-19: 47 employees of Coal India's Jharkhand arm dead
May 16, 2021, at 10:53 pm
Ranchi/IBNS: The second wave of Covid-19 has claimed the lives of at least 47 employees of Central Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, in Jharkhand, according to an official on Sunday, media reported.
Covaxin neutralizes coronavirus variants found in India, UK
May 16, 2021, at 10:10 pm
Hyderabad/IBNS: Bharat Biotech has announced that Covid-19 vaccine - COVAXIN, produced neutralising titres (concentration) against all key emerging variants tested, including the B.1.617 and B.1.1.7, first found in India and the United Kingdom.
Covid-19: Fresh allocation of Remdesivir made till May 23 to ensure adequate supply
May 16, 2021, at 08:45 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Amid the surge in demand for Remdesivir due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Union minister Sadananda Gowda took to Twitter to share a document that details the allocation of the critical antiviral drug to the states and union territories during the period April 23 to May 23.
People below 40 years more affected to COVID: Union Minister
May 16, 2021, at 06:45 am
Hyderabad/UNI: Cautioning people not to neglect Covid-19 guidelines, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy said that people below 40 years were more affected to Coronavirus.
Govt, people dropped their guard after first Covid wave: RSS chief Mohan Bhagawat
May 16, 2021, at 06:03 am
New Delhi/IBNS: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said the deadly second wave of Covid-19 has been spurred by the negligence shown by all sections of society after the first wave of the pandemic, according to media reports.