COVID-19

COVID-19 vaccine drive launched in Kerala, 13,330 health care workers to be covered on Day 1

3:49 pm January 16, 2021

Thiruvananthapuram: The vaccination drive to combat COVID-19 began in Kerala on Saturday at 133 designated centres with prominent government doctors among the first batch of frontline workers to be administered the vaccine. ”It’s a proud moment here in Kannur that the director of Malabar Cancer Centre, Dr Satheesan Balasubramanian became the first person in the […]

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

Guj: PM to e-inaugurate rly stn, broad gauge link to SoU

7:39 pm January 15, 2021

Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday inaugurate virtually the newly-built Kevadia railway station near the Statue of Unity in Narmada district and a broad gauge line connecting Vadodara with Kevadia, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said on Friday. The inauguration was earlier scheduled for Saturday but, apparently, got pushed back by a day […]

Odisha reports 186 new COVID-19 cases, two more deaths

2:47 pm January 15, 2021

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s COVID-19 caseload mounted to 3,32,949 on Friday as 186 more people tested positive for the infection, while two fresh fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,898, a health department official said. Of the new cases, 108 were reported from quarantine centres and 78 detected during contact tracing. Sundargarh district recorded the highest number […]

Lakhs take holy dip at Gangasagar on Makar Sankranti

11:49 pm January 14, 2021

Sagar Island (WB): Lakhs of pilgrims took the holy dip at Gangasagar on Makar Sankranti at the confluence of River Ganga and the Bay of Bengal and offered prayers at the Kapil Muni temple here on Thursday, West Bengal minister Subrata Mukherjee said. According to the Hindu calendar, the holy dip on Makar Sankranti is […]

Three held for man’s murder in Hyderabad

11:33 pm January 11, 2021

Hyderabad: Three people who allegedly killed a 33-year-old man on a road here in public view over a financial dispute were arrested on Monday, police said. The deceased, who was into real estate business, was attacked at around midnight on Sunday with sticks and knives besides a cement block, they said. A video of the […]