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    \Weve sent seven air shipments, including health supplies, oxygen, oxygen supplies, and 95 masks, rapid diagnostic tests and medicine\, said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. (AP/Evan Vucci)World
    US has provided over USD 500 million in COVID relief to India, says...

    The Biden administration, she said, is now working to extend that assistance to other South Asian countries that have...

    20 May 2021 10:22 AM IST

    April-May, the pre-monsoon months, usually witness formation of cyclones on the eastern as well as the western coast. (Photo: PTI)India
    Cyclone Yass likely to hit West Bengal, Odisha coast by May 27

    A low pressure area is very likely to form over north Andaman Sea and adjoining east-central Bay of Bengal around May 22

    20 May 2021 10:04 AM IST

    PM Modi was welcomed by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. (Photo: Twitter/@vijayrupanibjp)India
    Cyclone leaves 72 dead in Gujarat, Maharashtra

    Saurashtra worst affected; Navy pressed into service

    20 May 2021 9:24 AM IST

    People rescued by the Indian navy from a barge that sank in the Arabian sea walk out from Indian naval ship INS Kochi in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The barge carrying personnel deployed for offshore drilling sank off Mumbai as a deadly cyclone blew ashore this week. (AP /Rajanish Kakade)India
    49 from barge still missing, Navy continues search on 4th day

    Mumbai police said they will conduct a probe as to why the ill-fated barge remained in the turbulent area despite...

    20 May 2021 9:14 AM IST

    A motorist and a woman wade through a waterlogged street after heavy rains in Ahmedabad, India, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. Cyclone Tauktae, the most powerful storm to hit the region in more than two decades, packed sustained winds of up to 210 kilometers per hour when it came ashore in Gujarat state late Monday. (AP/Ajit Solanki)Opinion
    AA Edit | In Tauktae's path

    Weather events like annual tropical storms in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea are bound to get more severe as time...

    20 May 2021 8:09 AM IST

    Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. (PTI)Opinion
    AA Edit | Pinarayi springs surprises, Kerala gets new-look govt

    Explanations apart, the new team will have to compete against the record of its predecessor and prove its mettle

    20 May 2021 8:06 AM IST

    A medical worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Bengaluru, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (PTI)Science
    When to get the second dose if you test positive after the first?

    NEGVAC's fresh recommendations are based on the evolving situation of the pandemic and emerging global scientific...

    19 May 2021 8:08 PM IST

    PM Modi was welcomed by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. (Photo: Twitter/@vijayrupanibjp)India
    PM Modi reaches Gujarat to review situation after cyclone

    After the survey, the PM is scheduled to hold a review meeting at Ahmedabad

    19 May 2021 1:11 PM IST

    A medical worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Bengaluru, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (PTI)World
    Sudan bans travellers from India, imposes other COVID-19 restrictions

    Sudan's health emergency committee also warned that cases country could top 100,000-mark by mid-June if restrictions...

    19 May 2021 12:37 PM IST

    Medical staff wearing PPE suits (Personal Protection Equipment) transfers a body of a patient who died of Covid-19 coronavirus into a ambulance at mortuary in New Delhi on May 18, 2021. (Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)World
    India logs 13 per cent fall in new COVID cases in week; still highest...

    Globally, despite a declining trend, the incidence of cases remains at some of the highest levels since the start of the...

    19 May 2021 12:10 PM IST

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