New Delhi, May 22 With 2,57,299 fresh cases of Covid-19, India on Saturday witnessed the lowest rise in infection since April 21, even as 4,194 people died due to the pandemic in last 24 hours, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. India’s overall tally of Covid-19 casesRead More

New Delhi, May 20 The relationship between India and China is at a crossroads and its direction depends on whether the neighbouring country adheres to various agreements on maintaining peace and tranquillity along the border, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday referring to the eastern Ladakh standoff. JaishankarRead More

New Delhi, May 20 The Union Health Ministry has urged states and union territories to make black fungus or mucormycosis a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, stating that the infection is leading to prolonged morbidity and mortality amongst Covid-19 patients. The ministry, in a letter, said thatRead More

New Delhi, May 19 The double mutant B.1.617 variant of SARS-CoV2 is further mutating and one of its sub-lineages, the B.1.617.2, reported in India, is more infectious than its parent and fast increasing its footprint, Rakesh Mishra, former Director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, said on Wednesday.Read More

Ahmedabad, May 19 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved assistance Rs 1,000 crore for “immediate relief activities” in Gujarat after conducting an aerial survey of areas hit by cyclone Tauktae in the state, an official release said. He also announced ex-gratia compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the kinRead More

New Delhi, May 18 States like Tamil Nadu, Assam and Punjab may see the peak of the second wave of coronavirus cases in the next two weeks, the SUTRA model that charts the trajectory of Covid-19 suggests. However, the relief is that Delhi and states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Read More

New Delhi, May 18 Advertisement Powered By The Tribune x eReleGo India has recorded more than 4 lakh daily COVID-19 recoveries in a single day for the first time, while new coronavirus infections settled below 3 lakh for the second day, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. A totalRead More

Beersheba (Israel), May 17 A cricket club in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba has come to the rescue of several Indian researchers at the Ben-Gurion University in the Negev southern region, who had been struggling for a proper shelter while being under a complete siege with rockets raining overRead More

New Delhi, May 17 The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre why it can’t fix a formula to determine the MRP of oxygen concentrators which are in demand for Covid-19 treatment as people were being charged exorbitantly. The high court said it was not asking the government toRead More

New Delhi, May 17 India has reported 26 potential cases of bleeding and clotting after administration of Covishield vaccine, a government panel investigating adverse events following Covid-19 immunisation has found. The Union Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday that over 23,000 adverse events have been reported since theRead More