Day: April 28, 2021

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Satellites show world’s glaciers melting faster than ever

11:16 pm April 28, 2021

Zurich: Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31% more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers. Scientists blame human-caused climate change. Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers are losing more than […]

India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

11:10 pm April 28, 2021

New Delhi: Three days after his coronavirus symptoms appeared, Rajendra Karan struggled to breathe. Instead of waiting for an ambulance, his son drove him to a government hospital in Lucknow, the capital of India’s largest state. But the hospital wouldn’t let him in without a registration slip from the district’s chief medical officer. By the […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Ensure smooth supply of firewood to crematoriums, North Delhi Mayor urges CM

11:05 pm April 28, 2021

New Delhi: With municipal-run crematoriums facing a shortage of wood for funeral pyres in the face of surging Covid-19 fatalities, North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash Wednesday urged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to direct the forest department ensure smooth supply of firewood to these facilities. The national capital has reported 4,063 Covid-19 deaths in April so […]

Nobody expected a tsunami: Khattar on rising COVID-19 cases

11:01 pm April 28, 2021

Chandigarh: Calling the huge surge in COVID-19 cases an “unexpected tsunami”, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said the state government is putting all its might to tackle the crisis. “One expects that floods can come during rainy season, but no one expects a tsunami,” he said on the rising cases of the […]