Month: May 2021

PM chairs a high level meeting on Covid and vaccination related situation

Testing has gone up from around 50 lakh tests per week in early March to around 1.3 crore tests per week now Localised containment strategies are the need of the hour: PM PM instructed that testing needs to be scaled up further in areas with high test positivity […]

IAF PREPARES FOR CYCLONE TAUKTAE

The IAF has kept 16 transport aircraft and 18 helicopters on op readiness in peninsular India in preparation for the Cyclone Tauktae which is expected to cause very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall along the western coast of India in the next few days.       One IL-76 aircraft […]

Black fungus declared notified disease in Haryana: Vij

Chandigarh, May 15:  Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday said that black fungus has been declared a notified disease in the state. Now, if any cases of this disease are found, the doctors will have to report them to the concerned chief medical officer (CMO), Vij said […]

Man hacks daughter, her lover to death: Police

Kanpur, May 15: In a shocking incident, a man hacked his teenaged daughter and her minor lover to death in a village near here, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred in a village under the Ghatampur police circle of the district late Friday night, Circle Officer Pawan Gautam […]

PM Modi to review preparations to deal with Cyclone Tauktae

New Delhi, May 15:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an important meeting on Saturday to review preparations to deal with impending Cyclone Tauktae, government sources said. Top officers from across government departments, including the National Disaster Management Authority, will attend the meeting, they said. The India Meteorological […]

Misinformation surges amid India’s COVID-19 calamity

NEW DELHI — The man in the WhatsApp video says he has seen it work himself: A few drops of lemon juice in the nose will cure COVID-19. “If you practice what I am about to say with faith, you will be free of corona in five seconds,” […]

Lightning strike may have killed 18 wild elephants in India, officials say

A herd of eighteen wild Asiatic elephants were found dead in India’s eastern state of Assam, possibly because of a massive lightning strike, local officials said on Friday. Fourteen adult elephants were found dead by villagers on Thursday, and another four bodies were found scattered on the foothills […]

India ‘on war footing’ as coronavirus infections pass 24 mln

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounded the alarm over the rapid spread of the coronavirus through India’s vast countryside on Friday, as the official tally of infections crossed 24 million, and 4,000 people died for the third straight day. The highly transmissible B.1.617 variant of the coronavirus first detected […]

Israel targets Gaza tunnels, Palestinian rocket attacks persist

Israel fired artillery and mounted extensive air strikes on Friday against a network of Palestinian militant tunnels under Gaza that it dubbed “the Metro”, amid persistent rocket attacks on Israeli towns. An Israeli military spokesman said that while ground forces had taken part in the 40-minute, pre-dawn offensive, […]

Stay Safe from Mucormycosis – a Fungal Complication being Detected in COVID-19 Patients

Control Diabetes, Use Steroids Judiciously, Keep Good Hygiene, Don’t Self-Medicate DELHI, MAY 14: Even as we try our best to protect ourselves from and cope with COVID-19, there is another threat being posed by a fungus, which we must know and act upon. Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, is […]

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