New Delhi India’s COVID-19 recovery rate soared past 70 per cent on Wednesday with 16,39,599 people having recuperated from the disease so far in the country, while active cases comprise 27.64 pc of the total caseload, the Union Health Ministry said. The case fatality rate has further declined to 1.98Read More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday launch a new platform, ‘Transparent Taxation – Honouring the Honest’, which will carry forward the journey of direct tax reforms, an official statement said here. The virtual event will be witnessed by various chambers of commerce, trade associations, chartered accountants’ associationsRead More

Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Punjabi spirit of ‘koyi gal nahin’ (no worries) causing people to delay going for testing and treatment of COVID-19 was a cause for worry. While this was a nice spirit, it could prove to be detrimental in certain instances,Read More

Chandigarh Punjab on Tuesday reported a record 32 fatalities due to COVID-19, pushing the death toll to 636, while 1,002 fresh cases took the state’s infection tally to 25,889. As many as 11 fatalities were reported in Ludhiana, four in Sangrur, three each in Amritsar, Patiala, Jalandhar and Mohali, andRead More

Baltimore (US) The confirmed number of coronavirus cases in the world has reached 20 million. That’s according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Health officials believe the actual number is much higher, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40% of all those who areRead More

Moscow President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess. The development paves the way forRead More

New Delhi India will get a piece of the action as Russia enters the last mile of producing the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine. The Phase 3 clinical trials will be held in many countries, including India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Brazil and the Philippines. This will be followed by massRead More

New Delhi Over 10 lakh Indians have returned from abroad after the government launched the “Vande Bharat” evacuation mission on May 7 in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday. MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava tweeted, “Vande Bharat Mission crosses the 1 million mark!”Read More

Mumbai The number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai increased by 917 to 1,25,239 on Tuesday while the death toll went up by 48 to 6,890, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. A total of 1,154 patients were discharged in the day, taking the number of recoveries to 99,147, it said.Read More

Mumbai Remembering the power of his words and saluting his courage to never hold back, several poets, songwriters and musicians like Javed Akhtar, Gulzar, Shankar Mahadevan, and Varun Grover paid tributes to Urdu poet Rahat Indori, who passed away following a heart attack on Tuesday. The 70-year-old poet-lyricist was admittedRead More