Seven rural Manitoba churches hope to convince a judge that the province’s lockdown measures are unjustified violations of Charter-protected freedoms of conscience, religion, expression and peaceful assembly — and that the chief medical officer of health failed to consider the “collateral social and health costs” of locking down society. SinceRead More

Chandigarh, May 3 Even as he made it clear that he was not in favour of a complete and harsh lockdown, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday warned people against laxity in adherence to the curbs imposed in the state, and said if the situation did not improve heRead More

Chandigarh, May 3 With the state getting an allocation of only 3.30 lakh vaccines for the 18+ category from the Serum Institute of India for the month of May, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday ordered 70 per cent of the doses to be reserved for individuals with co-morbidities,Read More

Bengaluru, May 3 As many as 24 patients, including 23 suffering from Covid, died in Karnataka’s Chamarajanagar due to alleged oxygen shortage in the district hospital in the last 24 hours, officials said. A pall of gloom descended on the Chamarajanagar district hospital as the grieving kin of the deceasedRead More

New Delhi, May 3 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday confirmed that there was indeed a patient in the New Zealand High Commission who required emergency treatment but conceded that an open public appeal for oxygen cylinders was not the right way for its New Delhi mission toRead More

New Delhi, May 3 More than 2.15 lakh beneficiaries in the 18-44 age group received the first dose of the anti-COVID vaccine across 12 states and Union territories in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Monday. The total number of vaccinations across the country has crossed 15.88Read More

Ontario reported 3,369 new cases of COVID-19 and 29 more deaths on Saturday as overall admissions to intensive care units climbed to 900 for the first time. Some 2,152 people in the province remain in hospital because of the infectious disease, a figure that has consistently been trending upward sinceRead More

Chandigarh, May 1 The Punjab government said on Saturday it will set up two makeshift hospitals equipped with ICU facilities for coronavirus patients in Mohali and Bathinda. Besides, nine new small hospitals at various district hospitals were also coming up in the state. Punjab Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan stated thisRead More

Chandigarh, May 1 Days after Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh launched a scathing attack on him, senior Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu hit back on Saturday sharing a 2016 video of Capt Amarinder “promising to send Badals to jail for Kotkapura firing incident”. Sidhu in his social media postRead More

Melbourne, May 1 Threatening a five-year jail term or hefty fine, the Australian government temporarily barred its citizens from entering the country if they happened to be in India within 14 days of their intended arrival. The decision was announced after a meeting of the National Cabinet on Friday andRead More