coronavirus

AAP: Power Minister Satyendar Jain accepts Goa counterpart's 'challenge' for debating Delhi's electricity model

Declining COVID positivity rate is a certain ray of hope for us: Jain

6:27 pm April 29, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that the COVID positivity rate has been declining is a certain ray of hope for the government. Four days ago, the positivity rate in Delhi had touched the 35 per cent mark, which has come down to 31.76 per cent now, he added. He said […]

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 […]

Oxygen shortage: Delhi Hospitals say situation better, reopen admissions

9:52 pm April 27, 2021

New Delhi: After days of scrambling for oxygen, hospitals in Delhi on Tuesday said they are in a comparatively better situation in terms of supply and have reopened admissions. Amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital, medical facilities across the city and its suburbs put out desperate pleas for help on […]