New York, April 24 (IANS) The chief US expert on the Covid-19 pandemic, Anthony Fauci, has said that the "dire situation" that has now arisen in India after it initially seemed to have avoided the wor
New Delhi, April 24 (PTI): The Delhi high court said on Saturday that if any official at the central, state or local administration was obstructing in the picking up or supply of oxygen, then "we will hang
New Delhi, April 24 (PTI): The Joe Biden administration has come under intense pressure from various quarters, including the powerful US Chambers of Commerce, lawmakers and eminent Indian-Americans, to ship Ast
New Delhi, April 24 (PTI): Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana was sworn in as the 48th Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday.
Justice Ramana took the oath at a brief ceremony held a
New Delhi, April 24 (PTI): Twenty critically ill patients died overnight at Jaipur Golden Hospital in Delhi amid a serious oxygen crisis, officials said on Saturday.
"The oxygen pressure has dipped as w
New Delhi, April 24 (PTI): A record single-day rise of 3,46,786 coronavirus cases pushed India's tally of infection to 1,66,10,481, while active cases crossed the 25-lakh mark, according to the Union health
New Delhi, April 23 (PTI): As India battles a massive spike in coronavirus cases amid an oxygen shortage, the European Union (EU) and French President Emmanuel Macron expressed solidarity with the country on Fr
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS): With the raging second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc in India, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Friday that he is
NEW DELHI, APRIL 23 (IANS): Former Chhattisgarh Minister and senior BJP leader Brijmohan Agrawal has set up a 200-bed Covid care centre near the state capital providing free treatment to the patients.
Agrawa
Patna, April 23 (PTI): People hardly know him by his real name in Bihar, but one mention of the 'oxygen man' and he is instantly recognised as the life-saver for critically ill COVID-19 patients in time
NEW DELHI, APRIL 23 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday requested the States to deal strictly with hoarding and black marketing of essential medicines and injections. Chairing a meeting of Chief Mini
New Delhi, April 23 (PTI): The government on Friday decided to resume providing free food grains to the poor in May and June to help them tide over the economic hardship in the second wave of the coronavirus pa
New Delhi, April 23 (PTI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's televised comments during the interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday regarding pandemic situation in the national capital a
New Delhi, April 23 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the central government over the "shortage of oxygen and lack of ICU beds" amid rising coronavirus cases.
The Congress has b
Chennai, April 23 (IANS): Remdesivir, a key drug in the fight against Covid and for treating pulmonary complaints, is in short supply in Tamil Nadu and doctors fear that the drug is in shortage following delibe
Srinagar, April 23 (IANS): Army troops of the Siachen brigade launched a rescue operation to extricate civilians stranded due to heavy snowfall near Khardung La Top in Ladakh, officials said on Friday.
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS): The BJP on Friday demanded the Delhi government should fix oxygen prices in the national capital as patients are forced to buy it at exorbitant rates.
In a letter to Chief Ministe
New Delhi, April 23 (PTI): Relatives of some of the victims, who died in a fire at a hospital in Maharashtra's Palghar district early on Friday, alleged that the staffers of the facility were asleep when th
New Delhi, April 23 (PTI): India added a record over 3.32 lakh new coronavirus cases in a single day taking the country's tally to 1,62,63,695, while active cases crossed the 24-lakh mark, according to the
NEW DELHI, APRIL 22 (IANS): The Centre and the Delhi government are together re-operationalising a Covid hospital in the national capital with 500 oxygenated beds within three days to cater to the growing deman