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Taking steps to ramp up capacity to transport liquid oxygen with city: Delhi govt

11:22 pm May 6, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi government has taken a number of steps to ramp up the capacity to transport liquid oxygen, including tracking of tankers via GPS and putting a decentralized management system in place for distribution of the life-saving gas within the city, an official statement said on Thursday. The Delhi government team tracks the movement of each and […]

India fighting Covid with all its might: PM Modi

India cases up as scientists appeal to Modi to release data

2:39 pm April 30, 2021

NEW DELHI: Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported more than […]

COVID: India grieves 200,000 dead with many more probably uncounted

SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system

10:08 pm April 26, 2021

New Delhi: Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors across the country, which on Monday set another record for new coronavirus infections […]

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’. […]

PM to meet COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers on Tuesday

11:24 pm April 19, 2021

New Delhi: With the government opening the COVID-19 vaccination drive to everyone above 18 years of age, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting with vaccine manufacturers on Tuesday, sources said. During the meeting, scheduled to be held through video conference at 6 pm on Tuesday, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) will make a […]