coronavirus

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

‘Please help’: Delhi hospitals appeal for assistance amid severe oxygen crisis

8:40 pm April 24, 2021

New Delhi: Narin Sehgal, the director of a hospital in Delhi, really don’t know how to help his patients in a situation like this. Amid an unprecedented crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country, some “helpless” hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility, while […]

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

If anyone obstructs oxygen supply, we will hang him: Delhi HC

6:37 pm April 24, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court said on Saturday that if any official at the central, state or local administration was obstructing in the picking up or supply of oxygen, then “we will hang that man”. The observation by a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli came during hearing of a plea by […]

PM Modi raps Kejriwal for televised comments during meeting on COVID

9:33 pm April 23, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s decision to telecast his comments live during an interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday regarding the pandemic situation in the national capital drew disapproval from the latter, who chided him for ‘breaking protocol’, and later the Union government officials accused the AAP leader of ‘playing politics’. […]

Ladakh reports 198 new COVID cases, one death

7:29 pm April 23, 2021

Leh: One more person died due to coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the death toll to 135 on Friday, while 198 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 12,937, officials said. The fatality was reported from Leh. The death toll stands at 135 — 91 in Leh and 44 in Kargil. Of the fresh cases, 183 […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

World leaders pledge climate cooperation despite other rifts

11:40 pm April 22, 2021

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden convened leaders of the world’s most powerful countries on Thursday to try to spur global efforts against climate change, drawing commitments from Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin to cooperate on cutting emissions despite their own sharp rivalries with the United States. “Meeting this moment is about more […]