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Medical supplies from the United Kingdom reach Delhi Airport, in New Delhi on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (PTI file photo)

US to send COVID-19 supplies worth $100 million to India

The first shipment includes 960,000 rapid tests, which can detect Covid in 15 minutes, and 100,000 N95 masks for...

29 April 2021 9:44 AM IST

The new Act makes Delhis elected government virtually toothless and hands over sweeping powers to Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal who now controls nearly 80 departments and can even stall a Bill enacted by the Assembly, officials said. (Photo: PTI)

L-G in-charge of Delhi, MHA notifies Act

The Delhi government will have to take permission from the LG before taking any action on subjects that had so far been...

29 April 2021 4:29 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | CVC ups ante, asks ministries to sort plaints within 3...

The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has run into a wall of bureaucratic denial

29 April 2021 4:18 AM IST

$Students waving flags of the Communist Party as they prepare to watch a movie \The Founding of a Party\ in Yangzhou, in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. (Photo: AFP)$ Opinion

Claude Arpi | China's new weapon is political archaeology'

In February this year, the Communist Party of China (CPC) started a new campaign called Party History Learning and...

29 April 2021 4:10 AM IST

CoWin system collapsed several times on the day it opened for public registration.

Covid-19 vaccine website crashes

The CoWIN site is getting almost 27 lakh hits a minute. More Appointment slots will soon be offered, said government...

29 April 2021 1:02 AM IST

Vaccine manufacturers have been asked to supply 50 per cent of their stock to the Centre, and split the rest 50 per cent between state governments and the open market. (Photo: AP)

Serum Institute cuts vaccine price for states to Rs 300/dose

Bharat Biotech which priced its Covaxin shots at â‚¹600 for states and â‚¹1,200 for private hospitals is yet to announce...

29 April 2021 1:00 AM IST

A woman collects water from a tap near a collapsed wall at an apartment building in Guwahati on April 28, 2021, after a strong earthquake hit Assam in northeastern India, damaging buildings, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. (AFP)

Series of earthquakes jolt Assam and most of the Northeast

The impact was felt in almost the entire Northeastern region, parts of West Bengal, Bhutan and Bangladesh

28 April 2021 3:01 PM IST

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP)

India's Covaxin found to neutralise 617 variant of COVID-19: Dr Fauci

'So, despite the real difficulty that we're seeing in India, vaccination could be a very, very important antidote...

28 April 2021 1:24 PM IST

Multiple funeral pyres of those who died of COVID-19 burn at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for the mass cremation of coronavirus victims, in New Delhi, India. India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday, April 28, 2021 of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms health care systems on the brink of collapse. (AP)

With 3,293 fresh fatalities today, India marks a grim milestone of two...

The country saw a record single-day rise of 3.6L cases, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.12 per cent

28 April 2021 1:07 PM IST

Four cryogenic oxygen containers have arrived in India at Panagarh Air Base from Singapore. The containers were air lifted in an IAF C-17 aircraft from at Changi airport, Singapore. (PTI)

IAF airlifts 9 cryogenic oxygen containers from Dubai, Singapore

IAF has been airlifting empty oxygen tankers and containers to various filling stations to speed up the distribution of...

28 April 2021 9:29 AM IST

Family members of COVID-19 patients wait outside an oxygen-filling centre to refill their empty cylinders, as demand for the gas rises due to spike in coronavirus cases, at Naraina, in New Delhi, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Sunanda K. Datta Ray | Caring governance vital to save lives & India's...

The devastating second wave might not have struck so ferociously had it not been for the government's triumphalism

28 April 2021 7:23 AM IST

Election Commission bans victory rallies on May 2

Election Commission bans victory rallies on May 2

A recent media survey on Tuesday showed the steep spike in Covid-19 cases in the poll-bound states

28 April 2021 6:50 AM IST