Month: May 2021

PM reviews Covid related initiatives by the Indian Navy

Naval Hospitals being opened for use of civilians in various cities Navy is boosting oxygen availability in Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar islands. Navy transporting Oxygen Containers as well as other supplies from abroad to India Medical personnel in the Navy have been redeployed at various locations in […]

Orders on victory processions being flouted, restrain your workers: EC tells political parties

New Delhi, May 2: The Election Commission on Sunday told political parties that its ban on victory processions during and after counting of votes is being flouted, and asked them to restrain their workers from violating Covid-19 guidelines. The EC wrote to the heads of recognised parties about its […]

Mamata to take oath as Bengal CM for third time on May 5

Kolkata, May 3: Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the third time on May 5, her party announced on Monday. The newly-elected MLAs of the Trinamool Congress unanimously elected Banerjee as the legislative party leader at a meeting here, its secretary-general […]

Mamata to meet guv at 7 pm to stake claim to form govt

Kolkata, May 3: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm on Monday and stake claim to form the government, after her party’s stupendous win in the assembly elections, Raj Bhavan sources said. The ruling TMC has won 212 of the 292 […]

Roaring tanker fire kills 7, injures 14 in Afghan capital

KABUL, Afghanistan — A searing blaze that roared through dozens of fuel tankers on the northern edge of the Afghan capital of Kabul killed seven people and injured 14 others, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. Investigators were combing through the tankers that lay in smoldering ruins and a […]

Vote count in five Indian states begin amid pandemic

India’s election officials on Sunday started counting votes in five states from elections held in March and early April at the start of a surge in COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed the country’s healthcare system. The state election results are seen as a test of the impact the […]

India’s COVID-19 daily cases hold close to record, another state imposes lockdown

India’s new coronavirus cases dipped marginally on Sunday but deaths due to the infection jumped by a record 3,689, with one more state going into lockdown as the nation’s creaky healthcare system is unable to cope with a massive caseload. Authorities reported 392,488 new cases in the previous […]

Indian scientists flag virus mutations that could ‘evade immune response’

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the Indian government has told authorities about minor mutations in some samples of the coronavirus that could “possibly evade immune response” and require more study, a leader of the forum has told Reuters. However the advisers said while they were […]

COVID-19 Vaccination Update- Day 106

Phase-3 of nationwide Vaccination Drive commences More than 84 thousand beneficiaries of age group 18-44 Vaccinated today More than 16 lakh vaccine doses given till 8 pm push Cumulative Vaccine Coverage to more than 15.66 Cr doses Centre advises States to set up Help Desks at Hospitals with […]

Scientists working on SUTRA model for charting trajectory of COVID-19

DELHI, MAY 2: We, the scientists working on the SUTRA model for charting the trajectory of COVID-19, would like to clearly point out some facts related to predictions of our mathematical model, especially since some of these have been misunderstood and misquoted. Recent reports in some media seem […]

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