New Delhi The total number of recoveries among COVID-19 patients in India has jumped to 13,28,336, pushing the recovery rate to 67.62 per cent on Thursday, while the case fatality rate has further dropped to 2.07 per cent, the Union health ministry said. The recoveries exceeded active cases of theRead More

Ayodhya (UP) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The Prime Minister performed the ‘bhoomi poojan’ before laying the stone. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat also took part in the ‘bhoomi poojan’. After performing theRead More

Ahmedabad With 1,073 new coronavirus positive cases, Gujarat’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 66,000- mark on Wednesday, the state health department said. The case count in the state is 66,777 now, it said. With the death of 23 COVID-19 patients during the day, the number of deceased went up to 2,557,Read More

New Delhi Delhi recorded 1,195 fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the tally in the city to over 1.35 lakh while the death toll from the disease mounted to 3,963, authorities said. On Monday, the daily cases count had dipped to 613, the lowest in two months. From Tuesday onwards,Read More

London The international vaccine alliance GAVI has facilitated a new drive aimed at securing doses of COVID-19 vaccines for 92 low and middle-income countries and economies, including India, at the same time as wealthier nations. The COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) forms part of the COVAX Facility, a mechanism hostedRead More

New Delhi The Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Thursday compared India-China ties to “glass” and said neither side wanted the Galwan Valley incident to happen. But the envoy stuck to the stand that Indian troops were to blame for having adopted an aggressive stance on the Line ofRead More

Mumbai Maharashtra reported the highest one-day spike of 11,147 new cases on Thursday, taking the number of COVID-19 cases in the state to 4,11,798. As many as 266 COVID-19 patients died in the state, taking the death toll due to the viral infection to14,729, a release from the Maharashtra healthRead More

New Delhi With a single-day increase of 47,703 coronavirus cases, India’s virus tally mounted to 14,83,156 on Tuesday, while the recoveries surged to 9,52,743 pushing the recovery rate to 64.24 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country’s death toll due to the virus rose to 33,425Read More

New Delhi France on Tuesday handed over to India ventilators, test kits and other medical equipment as part of its assistance in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The medical equipment was handed over to the Indian Red Cross Society by French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain at the PalamRead More

New Delhi India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against COVID-19 as a result of “right decisions taken at the right time”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, asserting that the country has expanded its health infrastructure at a rapid pace. Speaking afterRead More