COVID-19
- World
Deaths in US prisons up by 50% during 1st Covid year: Report
Washington: US state and federal prisons saw deaths surging nearly 50 percent during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, and in six states they had more than doubled, a media report…
- India
India to record highest cashless transactions in the world: Jaishankar at Raisina
Sydney: India is moving ahead to record the largest number of cashless transactions in the world, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday at the Raisina @ Sydney Business Breakfast. “If…
- India
Fund allocation for MGNREGA has not gone down: Sitharaman
Bhubaneswar: The fund allocation for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme(MGNREGA) has not gone down, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here on Friday, adding it is a demand driven scheme and as…
- World
China’s Communist Party claims decisive victory over COVID-19
Beijing: China’s ruling Communist Party has claimed to have scored a “decisive victory” over the coronavirus pandemic by minimising the casualties and staunchly defended its much-criticised zero-COVID policy, saying that it has…
- Health
Organ damage persists in almost 60 pc of long Covid patients a year after initial diagnosis: Study
London: Scientists have found that organ damage persisted in 59 per cent of long Covid patients a year after initial symptoms, even in those not severely affected when first diagnosed with the…
- Telangana
Telangana: Four women workers die in auto-bus collission in Yadadri
Hyderabad: Four women workers were killed and four others were injured in a collision between an auto-rickshaw and a bus in Telangana’s Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district on Thursday. https://twitter.com/KP_Aashish/status/1626122668855672832?s=20 The accident occurred near…
- World
Indian-origin businessman jailed for COVID loan abuse in UK
London: An Indian-origin businessman in south east England has been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment after admitting abuse of an interest-free loan offered by the UK government to businesses to cope with…
- World
Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 prevalence jumps to 75 pc in US
Los Angeles: The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for about three-fourths of all Covid-19 cases reported in the US this week, according to the estimates released by the US Centers…
- Delhi
‘PM CARES’ fund case: Delhi High Court posts hearing to April 20
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday adjourned hearing in a plea seeking a declaration of PM CARES Fund as “State” under Article 12 of the Constitution of India, to April…
- India
Centre ‘forcefully stopped Pfizer’s COVID vaccine: KCR hits out at Modi-govt
Nanded: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has alleged that the Central government did everything possible to “forcefully” prevent import of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, especially when people were ready to get…
- Hyderabad
3 lakh doses of intranasal Covid vaccine sent to hospitals: Bharat Biotech’s Krishna Ella
New Delhi: Bharat Biotech dispatched three lakh doses of its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine to some hospitals two days ago, the company’s executive chairman Krishna Ella said on Sunday. He was speaking on…
- India
Covaxin booster safe, necessary for lasting immunity-ICMR study, says govt
New Delhi: An ICMR study has indicated that a booster dose of Covaxin is safe and necessary to ensure persistent immunity to minimise breakthrough infections of COVID-19, due to newly emerging variants,…