Bengal reported its first coronavirus-linked death on Monday taking India’s death toll in COVID-19 cases to eight. The 55-year-old man was admitted at a private hospital in Kolkata and was tested coronavirus positive on Saturday. According to the Health Ministry, the number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 433 on Monday with the Centre warning of […]
68-year-old man from the Philippines, who tested positive for coronavirus and then negative, died in a private hospital, the health department of the Greater Mumbai municipal corporation said in a release on Monday. The man died on Sunday night. “He was a case of diabetes mellitus and asthma and was admitted on 13th March with […]
Srinagar: A Kashmiri youth lodged at Uttar Pradesh Jail has been brought back to Kashmir. Police sources told Kashmir News Trust a Kashmir youth from Bandipora who was arrested last year in August after the abrogation of Special Status and shifted to UP’s Ambedkar Jail has been brought back. Sources identified the youth as Adil Bashir […]
COVID-19 claimed it’s second victim in four days when a 63-year-old man succumbed to the virus at a private hospital, officials said here on Sunday. He had been admitted to the private hospital on March 19 with chronic diabetes and high blood pressure. Late on Saturday, he developed severe breathing problems and succumbed around 11p.m. […]
A petrol bomb was hurled by an unidentified person near the protest site at Shaheen Bagh on Sunday where women have been on a sit-in for over three months against the newly amended citizenship act, police said. No injuries have been reported. The incident took place at around 9.30 am, they said. A police […]
Media baron Peter Mukerjea, accused in Sheena Bora murder case, was released from Arthur road jail on Friday evening. Peter was granted bail by Bombay High Court on February 6 on medical grounds and also because the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) failed to prove Mukerjea’s involvement in Sheena Bora’s alleged murder. However, the court […]
There are no two ways about it: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing us for the worst, while obviously trying to avoid panic. Listening to his address to the nation on Thursday, I was grateful for one thing. There was no attempt to play down the gravity of what the coronavirus could mean for India. […]
An Indian-origin team of researchers led by Dr Ravindra Kolhe from Georgia-based Augusta University has developed a novel, accurate coronavirus test that can tell patients in if they are infected within about two hours, instead of waiting typically days to hear from remote testing facilities. The team at the Georgia Esoteric and Molecular (GEM) laboratory […]
The virus has infected more than 234,000 people across the world and the death toll exceeded 10,000. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday cautioned against complacency on the pandemic while asking people to observe a self-imposed curfew on Sunday by not stepping out of homes between 7 am and 9 pm. Globally, the virus has infected more than 234,000 […]
Seven years after a young medical student was gang-raped and tortured on a moving bus in Delhi, four of her killers were hanged at 5.30 am this morning. Less than two hours ago, the Supreme Court, in a hearing past midnight, dismissed their final petition, bringing to an end a case that changed a nation. […]