COVID

Country will overcome second COVID wave with combined efforts of all: PM

11:06 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: The country is again faced with a big battle against COVID-19 and conditions will improve with the decisions taken in recent days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday and stressed that lockdown should be the last option. In his address to the nation, Modi said the people were undergoing suffering but “we […]

About 2500 COVID beds still vacant in Delhi: Deputy CM Sisodia

7:35 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday warned the hospitals showing inaccurate information on the Delhi Corona App of stringent action. Sisodia, addressing a press conference, stated that the Delhi government is working on war footing to fight COVID-19, wherein 2700 new beds will be added in hospitals within the next 4-5 […]

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

Economic interests cannot override human lives, cut down industrial use of oxygen immediately: HC

7:33 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that economic interests cannot override human lives and suggested some reduction in steel and petroleum production to divert oxygen to COVID-19 patients. A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said if the lockdown continues then everything would come to a halt and therefore, what […]

Some Delhi hospitals left with just a few hours of oxygen: Kejriwal

7:27 pm April 20, 2021

New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged the Centre to provide medical oxygen to Delhi, saying some hospitals are going to run out of it in a few hours. He had on Sunday termed the shortage of oxygen for coronavirus patients an “emergency”. Kejriwal also wrote to Union Minister of Commerce and Industries […]

National lockdown can dent GDP growth by 2%, states should do with local curbs: Report

10:47 pm April 19, 2021

Mumbai: A month’s national lockdown can hurt GDP growth by 2 percentage points, an American brokerage warned on Monday while expecting governments to continue with localised restrictions to arrest the Covid spread.Stating that there has been a 7x jump in the new cases to 2.61 lakh a day from a month ago’s 35,000 cases, analysts […]