COVID-19
- Telangana
Telangana: 15 students test positive for COVID-19 in Mahabubabad
Hyderabad: 15 school students in Mahabubabad district were tested positive for Covid – 19 on Friday amid the rising number of cases in the country. Tribal Welfare Ashram school students tested for…
- India
India received 6.19 mn foreign tourists in 2022
New Delhi: India received 6.19 million foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) during 2022 as compared to 1.52 million during the same period of 2021. There were 10.93 million FTAs in India during the…
- India
COVID-19 surge: Centre asks states to stay alert, identify hotspots
New Delhi: Amid rising cases of coronavirus, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday held a review meeting and advised states to stay alert and be prepared for COVID-19 management. In the…
- India
India sees highest one-day rise in Covid cases since September 2022
New Delhi: India on Wednesday reported 4,435 new Covid-19 cases, the highest single-day jump since September 2022, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs. The number of active cases…
- India
Is India seeing another Covid wave?
New Delhi: While India has seen the sharpest rise in Covid cases since the third wave in January 2022, experts on Monday opined that the current surge in infections is only “mild”…
- Pakistan
Pakistan-China Khunjerab Pass trade route opens after 3 years
Islamabad: In a major development for Pakistan-China trade relations, Khunjerab Pass, one of the pivotal trade routes between the two countries, has reopened after being shut down for almost three years due…
- India
India records 3,824 Covid cases, biggest single-day rise in six months
New Delhi: India on Sunday recorded a single-day jump of 3,824 COVID-19 infections, the biggest in 184 days, while the number of active cases increased to 18,389, according to Union health ministry…
- India
India reports 40 pc jump in new Covid cases
New Delhi: At 3,016 cases, India registered a 40 percent jump in the new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, said the Union Health Ministry on Thursday. In view of the…
- World
British Indian medic backs legal review of COVID vaccine in South Africa High Court
London: Leading UK-based Indian-origin consultant cardiologist Aseem Malhotra is among a group of international experts backing an approach to the High Court of South Africa, calling for an urgent judicial review of…
- India
Children who lost a parent to COVID-19 to get monthly aid in Puducherry
Puducherry: Agriculture and Social Welfare Minister of Puducherry C Jayakumar told the territorial Assembly on Wednesday that the government had framed a scheme to provide monthly assistance of Rs 2,000 to children…
- India
COVID: India sees highest single-day rise in five months
New Delhi: India recorded a single-day rise of 2,151 new coronavirus cases, the highest in five months, while the active cases increased to 11,903, according to the Union health ministry data updated…
- Delhi
SC permits Ukraine, China & Philippines returnees to clear MBBS exam in India
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Central government to allow MBBS students — who had returned from war-torn Ukraine as well as from China and the Philippines during the…
- India
UP: 38 school girls test Covid-19 positive in Lakhimpur Kheri
Lakhimpur Kheri: Thirty-eight girl students of the Kasturba residential school in Mitauli block of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district have tested positive for Covid-19 infection, a district health official said. Lakhimpur Kheri…
- India
Covid rise: Nationwide drill on hospital preparedness on April 10, 11
New Delhi: Amid rising cases of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza, the government is planning a nationwide mock drill on April 10 and 11 to take stock of hospital preparedness. According to a…
- India
SC orders all prisoners released on Covid-19 parole to surrender within 15 days
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said that all prisoners, released on emergency parole by the state high-powered committees constituted on its order during the Covid pandemic, will have to surrender…