MAHA COVID SURGE TAKES INDIA’S TALLY TO 25K FOR FIRST TIME IN 2021

March 15, 2021

India recorded 25,320 Covid-19 infections, the highest daily rise in 84 days, taking the case tally to 1,13,59,048, according to data by the Union Health Ministry. Of the new cases, Maharashtra accounted for over 16,000 cases. The death toll also increased to 1,58,607 on Sunday with 161 new fatalities, the...

Riding on Maha surge, India registers 23k new Covid cases

March 13, 2021

The number of Covid-19 cases in India is on the rise as the country recorded more than 23,000 new cases. Maharashtra, which is battling a massive coronavirus surge, reported 15,817 cases on Friday. This is the state’s highest single-day tally this year. 56 people also died of the illness in...

Gadkari calls Scania allegations ‘malicious, fabricated and baseless’, sends legal notice

March 12, 2021

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari’s office has termed as “malicious, fabricated, and baseless” allegations of corruption levelled against his sons, over media reports that alleged that Swedish truck and bus maker Scania delivered a bus for use in Gadkari’s daughter’s wedding in 2016. Gadkari has also...

Buy affordable medicines from ‘Modi ki dukaan’: PM on Janaushadhi Diwas

March 8, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed Janaushadhi Diwas celebrations and interacted with beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana through video conferencing. He urged people to buy medicines from Janaushadhi Kendras at affordable prices and said, “Medicines are expensive, that’s why we have the PM Jan Aushadhi Yojana...

PM MODI LEADS INDIA’S COVID VACCINATION DRIVE 2.0

March 2, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the Covid-19 vaccine shot at Delhi’s AIIMS hospital early on Monday, becoming the first beneficiary in the second phase of nationwide vaccination against coronavirus. PM Modi took a dose of the indigenous Covaxin developed by Bharat Biotech and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)....

INDIA TO START SECOND ROUND OF VACCINATION FROM 1 MARCH

February 25, 2021

The government on Wednesday announced that people above the age of 60 and those over 45 with co-morbidities will be able to receive Covid-19 vaccines from 1 March. Speaking at a media briefing, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said that the vaccinations will be given free of cost at around 10,000...

GOVT SAYS NEW VARIANTS NOT BEHIND SURGE IN COVID CASES

February 24, 2021

India said on Tuesday that the mutated strains of the coronavirus are not responsible for the upsurge in cases in two states, bringing potential relief for the country. Maharashtra and Kerala account for 75% of India’s current active cases, amounting to about 147,000, and both states have seen a sudden...

SHAH REVIEWS SITUATION AS INDIA SEES SHARP JUMP IN COVID CASES

February 23, 2021

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday reviewed the Covid-19 situation in India following the spike in cases in a few states. The ongoing vaccination drive and the steps needed to check further spread of the virus were discussed in the meeting, which was attended by Union Health Minister Dr...

Delhi Police issues arrest warrant against 3 ‘toolkit conspirators’

February 16, 2021

Delhi Police on Monday said that it has identified Nikita Jacobs, Shantanu Muluk, Puneet and Disha Ravi as the creators of the “Toolkit” which was shared by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on her Twitter account. Thunberg had shared the toolkit to lend her support to the farmers’ agitation against...

KERALA, MAHARASHTRA LEAD CHARGE OF ACTIVE CASES

January 29, 2021

India’s Covid-19 tally mounted to 10,702,730 with 11,666 new cases in last 24 hours, while 10,373,649 people have recuperated from the infection so far pushing the national recovery rate to nearly 97 percent. With 123 more fatalities, the death toll reached 1,53,895. The Covid-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.44...