London, April 22 Heathrow Airport in London, the UK’s largest and busiest airport, has declined requests from at least four international aircraft carriers to land eight extra flights from India on Thursday, ahead of the coronavirus pandemic “red list” travel ban which comes into force from Friday. The airport saidRead More

New Delhi, April 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called on world leaders to take “concrete action at high speed” to combat the impending disaster of climate change. Pointing out that humanity’s ongoing battle against Covid is a timely reminder that the grave threat of climate change has notRead More

Bathinda, April 20 The Vancouver city council has passed a motion in support of farmers protesting outside New Delhi since November last year. The motion was moved by COPE councillor Jean Swanson and was passed by the 11-member city council. While four councillors joined Swanson in voting in favour, threeRead More

Chandigarh, April 20 State’s Covid vaccine stocks seems to be drying up at a rapid pace as last week (April 13 to 19) the Health Department administered 25 per cent less doses of vaccination compared to the previous week. As per the data of the Health Department, between April 5Read More

Washington, April 20 The US has advised its citizens to reconsider travelling to 80 per cent of the world. It has also warned them against travelling to India, even if they are fully vaccinated as there is a ‘very high level’ of Covid-19 in the country. They have been askedRead More

New Delhi, April 21 Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine maker, on Wednesday announced a price of Rs 400 per dose for its COVID-19 vaccine ‘Covishield’ for state governments and Rs 600 per dose for private hospitals. The company also said for the next two months, itRead More

Nashik/Mumbai, April 21 At least 24 COVID-19 patients on ventilator support suffocated to death on Wednesday when their oxygen supply stopped suddenly because of a malfunction in the main storage at a civic-run hospital in Nashik in Maharashtra, officials said. The government will probe if the tragedy at the DrRead More

Toronto and Peel Region are issuing orders to force businesses with five or more cases of COVID-19 in the last two weeks to close. Peel’s top doctor said closures will last 10 days if it is found that those infected “could have reasonably acquired their infection at work” or ifRead More

Chandigarh, April 20 In a slew of decisions to further improve the functioning of schools in the state, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday gave in-principle approval for legislation of Teachers Transfer Act in the Vidhan Sabha, while announcing Rs 500 amonth increase in the salaries of mid-dayRead More

New Delhi, April 20 India’s total tally of Covid cases climbed to 1,53,21,089 with 2,59,170 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, while active cases surpassed the 20-lakh mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll increased to 1,80,530 with a record 1,761Read More