Bengal: Repolling in 2 seats after candidates died of Covid
Bengal: Exit polls have forecast a tight contest between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP in the eight-phase elections to the 294-member assembly. The counting will decide the electoral fate of 2,116 candidates including nominees of the Left-Congress-Indian Secular...
Counting for votes for 4 states, 1 UT begins
Counting of votes for the Assembly Elections 2021 begins. Votes being counted across Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. The strong room is being opened in Malappuram as counting of votes are set to begin. Leads from Canning,...
Bengal: BJP leads in 4 seats, TMC 1
4 leads coming in from West Bengal: BJP, 1 to TMC. These are postal ballots that are being counted now. Assam: 4 leads: BJP at 3, Cong: 1 Kerala: LDF: 3, Cong: 1 Again, these are all postal ballots, and very early...
India’s vaccine czar Adar Poonawalla has moved to the UK due to “unprecedented” threats
Everything falls on my shoulders but can't do it alone: SII CEO Adar Poonawalla on vaccine pressure in India India’s Covid-19 situation is so dire that the rich are fleeing the country. And among them is vaccine czar Adar Poonawalla. Ponawalla, the...
Sputnik V from Russia arrives in Hyderabad
India Saturday received a shipment of Russias Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V as the first batch of 1,50,000 doses landed in Hyderabad from Moscow. Another three million doses of the Russian vaccine are scheduled to arrive this month. The vaccines will be...
BJP MP Gautam Gambhir to distribute 200 oxygen concentrators in Delhi
After being lambasted by court over distributing COVID-19 drug Fabiflu, BJP MP Gautam Gambhir will now provide 200 oxygen concentrators to those having mild or moderate symptoms of the infection in the national capital. The East Delhi MP said...
Former RJD MP Shahabuddin dies of COVID-19
Jailed former Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin died of COVID-19 at DDU Hospital in New Delhi on Saturday, Delhi Prisons Department said. Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel said, “Information has been received from DDU Hospital about the death of Mohd...
Delhi likely to extend lockdown for another week
Delhi is likely to extend the Covid lockdown for another week, sources said on Saturday afternoon, adding that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could announce the decision on Sunday. The national capital is under lockdown till 5 am on Monday, as the...
Don’t think we will need strict lockdown: Maha CM
Maharashtra would have seen nine to ten lakh active coronavirus cases if the state government had not imposed new lockdown-like restrictions, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday. A complete lockdown may be necessary but "I don't think we will reach...
At 96, Bengal reports highest Covid deaths in a day
West Bengal on Friday registered the highest single-day COVID-19 deaths with 96 people succumbing to the disease, the health department said in a bulletin. The tally mounted at 8,28,366 with a record one-day spike of...
Bengal announces partial lockdown amid Covid surge
The West Bengal government on Friday ordered shutdown of all shopping malls, beauty parlours, restaurants, bars, sports complexes, gyms, spas and swimming pools in the state with immediate effect until further orders, amid the surge in COVID-19 cases. According to the...
Former bureaucrat Sanjivi Sundar dies of COVID
Former bureaucrat Sanjivi Sundar, who initiated external commercial borrowings by Indian entities, died of COVID-19 on Friday, his family said. Sundar, who was a 1963-batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, served as Distinguished Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute...
Railways has ferried 664 MT of oxygen so far
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis across the country, Indian Railways has so far delivered more than 664 MT LMO to Maharashtra (174 MT), Uttar Pradesh (356.47 MT), Madhya Pradesh (64 MT), and Delhi (70 MT), the government said on Friday. Haryana...
‘Shooter Dadi’ Chandro Tomar dies due to COVID-19
Octogenarian shooter Chandro Tomar, nicknamed 'Shooter Dadi', died on Friday after battling COVID-19. She was 89. "Mera saath chhoot gaya, Chandro kaha chali gayi (She has left me, Chandro where have you gone?)," her sister-in-law Prakashi Tomar, who is...
Maha to take back Covid vax from pvt hospitals
The Maharashtra government on Friday announced that it would take back COVID-19 vaccines from private hospitals and administer these doses to people through state-run health centres only. State Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the government has decided to do...
Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal tests +ve for Covid
Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal tests positive for COVID-19. Just two days ago, the centre had notified a law that gives it more power over the city's elected government. According to the amended law, the "Government of Delhi" now means...
No clampdown on citizens seeking Covid help online: SC
"There should be free flow of information, we should hear voices of citizen," said a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, and asked the Centre, states and all DGPs not to take any action against anyone posting a shortage...
CM Uddhav Thackeray will be live in the evening hours to address state
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray will address the state today. The CMO is yet to announce the timing of the address, however, the CM will be live in the evening hours. Thackeray will speak about the present state of the COVID-19...
First Covid relief supplies arrive from US
India received the first Covid emergency aid supplies from the United States this morning as the country fights a deadly second wave that has strained the healthcare system. Over 3 lakh cases are getting added to the country's caseload everyday...
Former AG Soli Sorabjee passes away at 91
Former Attorney General and veteran lawyer Soli Sorabjee passed away on Friday. He was 91. Sorabjee had been honoured with Padma Vibhushan in 2002 for his defence of the freedom of expression and the protection of human rights. "The gentle giant...
Japan to provide ventilators to India
Japanese Ambassador to India Satoshi Suzuki on Friday informed that the country will provide 300 oxygen generators and as many ventilators to India which is currently facing the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Taking to Twitter, Suzuki said that Japan stands...
