COVID-19

British PM forced to defend India travel ban timing over Delta variant in Parliament

UK PM Johnson speaks with PM Modi on COVID-19 vaccines, climate change and trade

10:29 pm November 27, 2020

London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Friday to discuss a wide range of global and bilateral issues, including collaboration on COVID-19 vaccine, climate change, and trade and investment flows. Downing Street said Johnson reiterated the year 2021 as an important one for UK-India ties and also re-emphasised the UK’s commitment to the wider Indo-Pacific region, ahead of […]

5 new cases push COVID-19 tally of Andamans to 4,682

3:39 pm November 27, 2020

Port Blair: The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 4,682 on Friday as five more persons tested positive for the infection, a health official said. All the new cases were detected during contact tracing, he said. Twelve more people have been cured of the disease, the official said. The archipelago now has […]

COVID-19: Noida extends night curfew till April 30

Noida: One more succumbs, COVID-19 death toll 81

9:56 pm November 26, 2020

Noida (UP): Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded one more fatality linked to COVID-19 that pushed its death toll to 81, even as the district’s infection tally surged to 22,111 with 97 new cases being reported on Thursday, official data showed. Active cases in the district came down to 1,285 from 1,357 the previous day, […]

Assam bids emotional farewell to Tarun Gogoi

7:58 pm November 26, 2020

Guwahati: Assam bade a tearful adieu to its beloved former chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday, as his final rites were performed with full state honours at the Nabagraha Cremation ground here. Amid the chanting of hymns, preceded by a gun salute and band played by the Assam Police, the state’s longest serving chief minister’s […]

India sees highest drop in work, social, household travels due to pandemic: Survey

5:23 pm November 26, 2020

New Delhi : Amid the global wave of COVID-19 in the past nine months, India saw the highest drop in work, social and household travels among nine countries, including China and the US, reflecting the disruptive changes brought about by the pandemic in the patterns of mobility across the world, according to survey consultancy firm […]