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Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Pat Cummins donates $50,000 to PM Cares Fund

6:37 pm April 26, 2021

Ahmedabad: Australia and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) pacer Pat Cummins on Monday informed he has donated to PM-Cares fund to help purchase oxygen supplies for India’s hospitals. Last week, Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in line with PM Narendra Modi’s direction of boosting the availability of oxygen to hospitals, the PM CARES Fund has given […]

India's Tests against England, Australia were not fixed: ICC

Fear factor at IPL: Early exits as COVID cases surge in India; BCCI says league will go on

6:32 pm April 26, 2021

New Delhi: Anxiety pierced through IPL’s bio-secure bubble on Monday with leading Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and some Australian players withdrawing from the league amid the escalating COVID-19 crisis in India even as the BCCI insisted that the glitzy league will go on. The 34-year-old Ashwin, competing for Delhi Capitals, decided to take a break […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

COVID and crematorium: Slum dwellers grapple with smoke, stench and fear of disease

9:52 pm April 25, 2021

New Delhi: The smoke hangs in an ash grey cloud over their homes and the acrid smell from more than 200 cremations a day doesn’t leave, they say, permeating as it were their very pores. For the residents of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Camp, living next to a crematorium is as much a struggle as keeping […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Europe reopens but COVID patients still overwhelm ICU teams

10:28 pm April 24, 2021

PARIS: Cradling the head of the deeply sedated COVID-19 patient like a precious jewel in his hands, Dr. Alexy Tran Dinh steered his intensive-care nurses through the delicate process of rolling the woman off her stomach and onto her back, guiding the team like a dance instructor. They moved only on Tran Dinh’s count, in […]

‘Please help’: Delhi hospitals appeal for assistance amid severe oxygen crisis

8:40 pm April 24, 2021

New Delhi: Narin Sehgal, the director of a hospital in Delhi, really don’t know how to help his patients in a situation like this. Amid an unprecedented crisis over oxygen supply as the second coronavirus wave ravages the country, some “helpless” hospitals in Delhi are advising relatives to shift their patients to another facility, while […]