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SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown

3:32 pm May 2, 2021

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: SpaceX returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3 a.m., ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s […]

12 patients die as Delhi’s Batra Hospital runs out of oxygen

8:22 pm May 1, 2021

New Delhi: Twelve patients at Delhi’s Batra Hospital, including a senior doctor, died on Saturday and at least two other hospitals reported precipitous drops in their oxygen stocks. With the death of the 12 patients in the south Delhi hospital — which announced at 12.30 p.m. that it had run out of oxygen — the […]

Around 400 new COVID-19 cases in Delhi: Kejriwal

Vaccination for 18+ to begin in Delhi from Monday: CM Kejriwal

7:40 pm May 1, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday visited a polyclinic at Saraswati Vihar for the symbolic start of the vaccination drive. He said that vaccination drive for the citizens in the age group of 18-44 will begin in Delhi from 3rd May. Kejriwal stated that the Delhi government has already received 4.5 lakh vaccines […]

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

Unadkat pledges COVID-19 donation, says IPL bringing joy to nation

3:42 pm May 1, 2021

New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals bowler Jaydev Unadkat will donate 10% of his salary from the Indian Premier League (IPL) to the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic but believes the tournament is bringing “much-needed” relief to a nation in distress. India posted a record daily rise of 401,993 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, while the […]

Delhi has less than a day’s stock of Covaxin for 45-plus age group: Atishi

COVID-19 vaccination drive for 18+ fails to take off in Assam

3:31 pm May 1, 2021

Guwahati: The Assam government could not rollout the third phase of the COVID-19 vaccination drive for people in the 18-44 age group on Saturday due to non-receipt of vaccine supply from the Centre, a top NHM official said here. The process for the third phase of vaccination, as part of the nationwide drive to inoculate […]