Day: April 25, 2021

The Latest: Pakistan offers essential supplies to help India

ISLAMABAD — India’s rival Pakistan is offering to send essential medical supplies to its neighbor that’s in the grip of a devastating coronavirus surge that has depleted oxygen stocks and other hospital needs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that as a gesture of solidarity with the people […]

Iraq Interior Ministry: 82 killed in Baghdad hospital fire

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients. Negligence on the part of hospital authorities has been blamed for the […]

Indian Premier League under fire for plan to keep playing despite COVID-19 crisis

The Indian Premier League (IPL) will carry on with games, its organisers said on Sunday, but came under heavy criticism for the plan as the country grapples with a massive surge in coronavirus cases. The New Indian Express and a sister publication said on Sunday they had decided […]

A Sikh temple aids India’s COVID patients battling for breath

Indian coronavirus patient Vidhya Devi, 70, should have been in emergency care at a New Delhi hospital, but instead she lay on the backseat of a car outside a Sikh temple, battling for breath, as she was connected to an oxygen tank on the street. A massive surge […]

PM Modi says India shaken by coronavirus ‘storm’, U.S. readies help

India set a new global record of the most number of COVID-19 infections in a day, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged all citizens to be vaccinated and exercise caution, saying the “storm” of infections had shaken the country. The United States said it was deeply […]

Senior IIS officer Manikant Thakur passes away

IIS community also remembers senior IIS officer Narendra Kaushal who lost fight against Corona last week DELHI, APRIL 25: Senior IIS officer Manikant Thakur passed away this morning following COVID-19 infection. He was admitted in the Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi. Mr Thakur was serving as Chief of Media in […]

English rendering of PM’s address in the 76th Episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on 25.04.2021

DELHI, APRIL 25: My dear countrymen, Namaskar. Today, I am expressing Mann Ki Baat at a time when Corona is testing our patience; it is testing the limits of all of us at enduring misery. Many of our near and dear ones have left us untimely. After successfully […]

551 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants to be set up in public health facilities across the country through PM CARES

Oxygen Generation Plants to be set in Government hospitals in district head-quarters across the country These plants are to be made functional as soon as possible: PM These oxygen plants will ensure uninterrupted supply of oxygen in hospitals at district head-quarters DELHI, APRIL 26: In line with Prime […]

Maha: 14 oxygen generation plants to come up in MMR soon

Mumbai, Apr 25: In the wake of high demand of medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients, 14 plants for producing the life-saving gas from the atmospheric air will come up soon in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), Maharashtra minister Eknath Shinde said on Sunday. Talking to reporters here, Shinde said […]

ISRO to launch data relay satellite to track Gaganyaan

New Delhi, Apr 25: The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a data relay satellite that will help maintain contact with the Gagangyaan mission throughout after the launch, sources said. The satellite will be launched before the final leg of the Gaganyaan mission, which will send astronauts to the […]

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