The COVID-19 pandemic is a worrying public health emergency for India. As is the case in such emergencies, both journalists and public health experts are thirsty for data about the Indian government’s efforts to contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Such data allows these groups to ascertain if the efforts are adequate. It also makes the non-expert […]
A 70-year-old man hailing from Punjab died due to the COVID-19, taking the toll to four in India, the Health Ministry confirmed Thursday. The patient had co-morbid health conditions including diabetes and cardiac issues, the ministry said. The number of positive cases in India has jumped to 173. In an attempt to curb the spread of […]
New Delhi – The Centre on Wednesday issued a gazette notification for the adaptation of 37 central laws in the Concurrent List for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The gazette notification, issued by the Union Home Ministry’s Department of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Affairs, comes into force with immediate effect. It contains the 37 […]
New Delhi: A man suspected to be infected with COVID-19 allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a Safdarjung Hospital building on Wednesday, soon after he was admitted to the facility here by airport authorities, police said. The man was brought by the airport authorities as a coronavirus suspect and was immediately put […]
With the ruling and opposition party candidates for Rajya Sabha elections sailing through unopposed in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Telangana, Odisha, Haryana and Chhattisgarh. The elections for remaining seats in the upper house will be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat on March 26. Nominations had […]
The number of people infected with coronavirus disease Covid-19 has risen to 151 in the country after four more were reported from various parts of the country, Union health ministry said on Wednesday. Out of these 151 people, 126 are Indians and 25 foreigners, the ministry further said HT
The novel coronavirus that has killed about 8,000 and infected 200,000 people worldwide stays infectious in aerosols for several hours and on surfaces for days, says a breakthrough study that explains how the pathogen spreads quickly through infected droplets and from contact with contaminated surfaces. Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease, is detectable for up […]
A day after the Ministry of External Affairs stated that media reports claiming a large number of Indians in Iran had tested positive for coronavirus could not be confirmed, the government told Lok Sabha Wednesday that 255 Indians had been infected with COVID-19 in the Islamic Republic. The government further informed that 12 people have been infected with the […]
MORE THAN a dozen people in Lucknow who had been issued recovery notices for damage related to violence during anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protests in December will now have to pay 10 per cent extra within a week or face jail. The Lucknow administration on Tuesday issued “recovery certificates” and “demand notice” to the 13, whose […]
People of the country are living in “difficult times” and it was important to act because if this continues, “it will be too late to wake up”, former vice-president Hamid Ansari was quoted as saying by PTI. Speaking at the launch of Bhalchandra Mungekar’s book “My Encounters in Parliament”, Ansari said the institutions were under […]