Indian Civil Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri today revealed more details, including the number of flights, their routes as well as ticket prices, related to the air evacuation of Indians stranded abroad in the aftermath of the worldwide Coronavirus lock-down. National carrier Air India will conduct 64 flights between May 7 and May 13 to […]
Kerala government today announced that the total number of Coronavirus patients in the state has fallen to just 34, after 61 people recovered today and no new cases have come to light. With this, the state has reported no new COVID-19 cases in three out of the last four days. The state still has 372 […]
The Bihar state government has, at the last moment, refused permission to Indian Railways to transport an estimated 4,500 laborers staying at relief camps in Kerala. These workers are among the tens of thousands of migrant laborers staying at special relief camps set up by the Kerala government for the last 40 days. Besides those […]
The Managing Director of Xiaomi, India’s No.1 smartphone maker, today clarified that his company does record a list of the websites visited by anyone using their apps, but but was doing so to make the user experience better. “The usage data that is logged is used to make your experience better,” Manu Kumar Jain said […]
For the first time in 45 days, Kerala reported no new Coronavirus cases today, even as 9 more people recovered fully from the infection. The last time Kerala was able to report no new Coronavirus case was on March 17. With this, the total number of COVID-19 patients in Kerala has fallen to 102. The […]
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that if the nationwide lock-down is lifted next week, his state would face an unwelcome situation of having to deal wtih Coronavirus-positive travelers from other parts of the country. His comments come in the wake of the Goan government urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday to extend the […]
Kerala, which seemed to be on track to more or less eliminate Coronavirus 2019 by mid-May, could be seeing the beginnings of a ‘third wave’ of COVID-19 infections, starting with districts that share a border with other states. The worst affected in the new wave seem to be Palakkad and Idukki districts, both of which […]
After oil producers, metro rail operators, pipeline operators, power distributors and railways, it is the turn of cable operators to feel the impact of the AGR judgment of a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra last year. In October last year, the bench had ruled that any company that took a license from […]
India is now making a substantial number of essential medical supplies such as personal protection equipment (PPE), N95 masks and ventilators, the central government said today. Medical professionals in India were hit by a dangerous shortage of PPE kits and N95 masks till about two weeks ago, leading to at least some nurses taking to […]
Even as the number of new COVID-19 cases has not showed any signs of coming down despite the imposition of a national lock-down, the move has helped the healthcare sector in India to brace itself for any large-scale outbreak as is being seen in other countries, according to government’s empowered group on COVID-19. Without this […]
Five states in India have so far ‘flattened’ the Coronavirus curve in India, while the situation in nine states continues to be cause for concern. In all, four states are seeing strong daily increases in COVID-19 numbers. These are Maharashtra and Gujarat — the most worrisome — as well as Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (see […]
Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of Kerala — a region with one of the highest success rates in arresting Coronavirus spread anywhere in the world — today warned the people of the state about a possible famine-like situation if the infection gets out of hand in other parts of India. Kerala, with one of the highest […]
With an addition of 127 cases so far today, the western Indian state of Gujarat has dislodged the national capital Delhi as the state with the second highest number of Coronavirus 2019 cases in India. The state, which also crossed the 2,000 patient milestone today, also has the highest death rate — along with Madhya […]
Palghar Police said it has arrested 110 people belonging to a local tribal community as part of the investigation into the lynching of two Hindu sanyasis (monks) on their way to Gujarat. Multiple videos of the incident have started circulating on social media. The police also warned rumor mongers to desist from attempting to give […]
Indian Council of Medical Research, India’s top body for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, said it will start a new trial next week to study the efficacy of anti-TB vaccine BCG in preventing mortality in COVID-19. The statement comes even as the World Health Organization has said that there is no evidence […]
Five lakh rapid test kits for COVID-19 have arrived in India from China, but these will not be used for diagnosing suspected cases, Indian Council of Medical Research said today, adding that these will be used only for monitoring overall trends in the general population. India has, this week, got delivery of around 5 lakh […]
Health authorities in Kerala are in a state of surprise, if not shock, due to a new trend showing NRIs who have been in quarantine for 25 days or more starting to show COVID-19 symptoms. The new findings fly in the face of the widespread assumption that Coronavirus infected persons will show symptoms within 14 […]
Former information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari today called on the government to issue an advisory to media companies not to take advantage of the ongoing COVID-19 lock-down to lay off journalists and other employees. The request comes in the wake of widespread reports on social media about lay-offs in various media houses. “I am […]
Union health ministry today said that the country is ready to face any “exponential rise” in the number of Coronavirus cases and has, as of now, nearly 63 times the number of hospital beds at its disposal as is required to treat present COVID-19 cases. Luv Agarwal, spokesperson for the ministry of health and family […]
Even as other states continued to report high levels of new COVID-19 cases, Kerala reported a net decline of 20 in its tally of Coronavirus patients. While 7 new cases were reported, 27 existing patients tested negative and were discharged from the hospital. The number of new cases reported today is the lowest in nearly […]
