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AAP: Power Minister Satyendar Jain accepts Goa counterpart's 'challenge' for debating Delhi's electricity model

COVID spreading ‘exponentially’ but severity of virus is ‘less’: Satyendar Jain

6:28 pm April 8, 2021

New Delhi: Compared to the previous peak of 2 to 3 per cent reported in November, the current COVID fatality rate in the national capital stands at 0.4 per cent, said Delhi Health Minister, Satyendar Jain on Thursday. This time, the coronavirus is spreading ‘exponentially’ but the severity of the virus is ‘less’, and so […]

British PM Boris Johnson says UK and India are natural partners

UK to ease lockdown next week, will test vaccine passports

11:03 pm April 5, 2021

LONDON: Britain’s slow but steady march out of a three-month lockdown remains on track even as coronavirus cases surge elsewhere in Europe, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday, as he confirmed that businesses from barbers to bookstores will be allowed to reopen next week. Johnson said it’s too soon to decide, however, whether U.K. residents […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Europe ramps up vaccinations as virus haunts Easter holidays

10:38 pm April 4, 2021

Paris: The French city of Lyon’s main stadium opened as a mass vaccination center during Easter weekend, and thousands spent the holiday lining up for injections at hippodromes, velodromes or other sites as France tried to speed up shots amid a new rush of coronavirus cases. But as Europe celebrated its second Easter in a […]

In Easter speech, Pope Francis calls wars in pandemic ‘scandalous’

In Easter speech, pope calls wars in pandemic ‘scandalous’

10:33 pm April 4, 2021

Vatican City: Pope Francis in his traditional Easter Sunday address denounced as “scandalous” how armed conflicts continue to rage even as the coronavirus pandemic has triggered severe social and economic suffering and swollen the ranks of the poor. Francis tempered his “Urbi et Orbi″ address (Latin for ”To the city and to the world”) wishes […]

Singing hymns through masks, Christians mark pandemic Easter

10:28 pm April 4, 2021

Vatican City: Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful far apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday marked by pandemic precautions. From vast Roman Catholic cathedrals to Protestant churches, worshippers followed national or local regulations on the coronavirus. In some European countries, […]