Israel on Monday blocked fuel shipments for the Gaza power station, said Raed Fattouh, Head of the Coordination Committee for entry of goods in the Gaza Strip. This move by Israel comes when the airstrikes have extensively damaged the region's infrastructure. On Monday, local media reported that t...

Fake promised giveaways by celebrities such as Elon Musk are being used by scammers to cash in on interest in cryptocurrencies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday in noting a jump in complaints about cryptocurrency fraud since October....

Image Source : PTI The entire medical system in villages and small cities of Uttar Pradesh is at God's mercy ("Ram bharose"), the Allahabad High Court said on Monday while hearing a PIL over the coronavirus spread and the condition of quarantine centres in the state. A High Court Bench of...

Image Source : PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be interacting with field officials from states and districts to converse about their experience in handling the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday at 11 am. According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), officials from Karnataka...

Coronavirus in India LIVE Updates 18 May 2021: Even as coronavirus cases begin to show a dip in the second wave, India became the second country after the US to cross 25 million covid infections since the beginning of the pandemic. The death toll in many states continues to be alarming. India's COVI...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be interacting with field officials from states and districts to know about their experience in handling the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday (May 18) at 11 am. A statement issued by the Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) said that officials from Karnataka, Bihar...

Mumbai: The Supreme Court will on Tuesday hear a fresh plea of former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh seeking shifting of all departmental inquiries against him to an independent agency outside Maharashtra like the CBI. Singh, a 1988-batch IPS officer, was removed as Mumbai Police Commissioner o...

New Delhi: The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines appear to protect against COVID variants B.1.617 and B.1.618 first identified in India, researchers have reported in a new pre-print paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, CNN reported. Based on lab experiments involving cell cultur...

Cyclone Tauktae LIVE: The extremely severe cyclonic storm which had hit the Gujarat coast last night has started weakening into a ‘Very’ severe cyclonic storm, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Tuesday. The weather department said that the landfall process of the eye...

Japan's health ministry is set to authorize the use of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine later this week. Currently, the Pfizer vaccine is the only one being used as Japan inoculates the elderly and others. Applications for the Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines have been filed with the ministry, follow...

PTI, Despite the second coronavirus wave entering rural areas and lockdown in several states, the demand for work under rural employment scheme MGNREGA is on the rise, according to the data released by Rural Development Ministry on Monday. As many as 1.85 crore people have been given work in May so...

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday (May 18, 2021) morning said that the 'Cyclone Tauktae' is continuing to show a weakening trend after it wreck havoc in coastal states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. The IMD informed that the very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae la...

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States is surging exports of Covid vaccines to other countries to reclaim "American leadership" in the global fight against the pandemic, dismissing rival efforts by China and Russia....

DH Web Desk, The single-day rise in new coronavirus infections in India was 2.81 lakh on Monday. This takes the country's total caseload to 2,49,65,463 according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. Coronavirus in India: Total number of positive cases (including deaths): 2,74,39...

The Army Air Force and Navy and have mobilised their assets for emergency response measures to Cyclone Tauktae which made landfall in Gujarat on Monday. While the Navy has kept diving teams and ships with relief material on standby, the Army has launched two columns to Diu. The Air Force has also d...

Assuring the High Court of Bombay at Goa that facilities at Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) are among the best Goa, the Advocate General (AG) of the state on Monday said patients are delaying coming to the hospital following media reports, to which the court said this may be due to the even...

International New York Times, In early April, Payal Raj accompanied her family to India to renew the visas that permit them to live in the United States. She and her husband waited until they had been vaccinated, carefully preparing their paperwork according to the advice of their immigration lawye...

The United States will continue to provide a range of assistance to India, as its "important partner" continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House said Monday....

The Ministry of Women and Child Development issued a notice on Monday urging the general public to 'refrain'' from circulating messages on social media for the adoption of children who have been orphaned due to Covid-19. Raising concerns that such unregulated 'adoptions' could even lead to child t...

Delhi Police has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for any information that leads to the arrest of wrestler Sushil Kumar, who is on the run in connection with Chhatrasal stadium murder case....

Jeevan Shiyal, a young fisherman, sat frustrated in the lobby of Parekh and Mehta High School in the coastal Jafrabad town in Amreli district on the Saurashtra coast Monday afternoon. Inside, in one of the rooms, his wife Shobha sat on a mattress spread on the floor, breastfeeding their six-month-o...

By ANI NEW DELHI: As Cyclone Tauktae continues to impact several states on the Western Coast including Gujarat, damaging structures, electricity lines, and uprooting trees, the India Meteorological Department on Tuesday informed that the cyclone is continuing to show a weakening trend. "Extr...

May 18 will be the Shukla Paksha Shashthi Tithi of Vaishakha Maas in Vikram Samvat 2078. The Shashthi tithi will remain up to 12.32 pm. The day will be Mangalwar (Tuesday). The day Mangalwara is dedicated to Lord Hanuman who is believed to the 11th Rudra avatar of Lord Shiva. Lord Hanuman was born ...

US President Joe Biden, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, expressed his support for a ceasefire in the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, the Palestinian military group in Gaza. "The President expressed his support for a ceasefire and discussed US eng...

US President Joe Biden, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, expressed his support for a ceasefire in the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, the Palestinian military group in Gaza. "The President expressed his support for a ceasefire and discussed US eng...

Two African-American half-brothers who spent 31 years in prison in the southern US state of North Carolina for a crime they did not commit have been awarded $84 million, their lawyer said Monday....

The Supreme Court on Monday directed that rebel YSRCP MP Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju, who was arrested last week by Andhra Pradesh CID on sedition charges and allegedly assaulted in custody, be medically examined at the Army Hospital in Secunderabad, Telangana, and admitted there for medical c...

Indian Coast Guard Ship Samarth responded to a distress call and rescued 15 crew from a fishing boat named Milad, off Goa coast on Monday as a very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour began making landfall....

The CBI Monday arrested four TMC leaders, including two ministers in the newly former West Bengal government, in connection with the Narada sting operation case. The CBI said the four leaders — Ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra, Sovan Chatterjee — were arrested a...

Moving against hoarders, the Centre Monday reviewed the action taken by states and Union Territories for 'disclosure' of pulses stocks by millers, importers, and traders. The review was done at a meeting in which Consumer Affairs Secretary Leena Nandan, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey, Agriculture ...

The face-off between the Centre and the state in the wake of the election results deepened Monday with the CBI arresting two ministers in the West Bengal government and two other Trinamool Congress leaders in the five-year-old Narada sting operation case. They were granted interim bail by the court...

Sagar Choudhary watched the fire burn at the Harish Chandra Ghat of Varanasi. Around him were five bodies. Three burning on metal stands, another on the ghats, and one wrapped in a saffron cloth. Choudhary is a Dom, and has helped people conduct last rites for two decades. But he says he cannot for...

As Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched the first batch of the adjunct Covid therapy drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), developed by DRDO on Monday, he also reviewed the efforts of armed forces in assisting the administration across the country in tackling Covid-19 cases. Singh stressed that the gov...

The Indian Navy on Monday night evacuated 60 people out of 400 onboard two barges off the Mumbai coast in a challenging sea condition as Cyclone Tauktae roared up the western coast, officials said....

Almost two months after several European countries temporarily paused the use of the Oxford- AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of rare blood clots, the Health Ministry Monday said 26 potential thromboembolic events, or formation of clots in blood vessels, had been reported across the country follow...

The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines appear to protect against COVID variants B.1.617 and B.1.618 first identified in India, researchers have reported in a new pre-print paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, CNN reported. Based on lab experiments involving cell cultures, the...

India on Monday dropped convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) from its national clinical management protocol for Covid-19. The therapy uses blood plasma from people who have recovered from Covid-19 to help others recover. The decision by the AIIMS-ICMR Covid-19 National Task Force and the Health Minist...

UNION EDUCATION Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Monday held a meeting with school education secretaries of states and UTs to discuss strategies adopted for online and offline learning in schools during the pandemic so far, and the way forward. The minister announced that the Centre has released Rs 5,2...

The Allahabad High Court Monday observed that the 'entire medical system' of Uttar Pradesh 'pertaining to the smaller cities and villages can only be taken to be like a famous Hindi saying, Ram Bharose (at the mercy of God)'. The court made the observation over the matter of a 64-year-old patient, ...

The Israeli army said it launched artillery towards Lebanon on Monday in response to rocket fire from the neighbouring country that failed to hit the Jewish state....

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said the resurgence of Covid has dented but not debilitated economic activity in the first half of the first quarter of 2021-22. Although still extremely tentative, the overall assessment is that the loss of momentum is not as severe as it was at this time ...

More than 130 people in Switzerland have contracted the coronavirus after receiving both shots of the vaccine, with 12 cases being fatal, according to the latest data provided by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) on Monday. From January 1 to May 14, 134 vaccinees were infected with the de...

US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that he backs having a ceasefire in the bloody exchanges between Israelis and Palestinians, but he stopped short of openly demanding a truce....

Padma Shree awardee and former national president of the Indian Medical Association Dr KK Aggarwal passed away after a long battle with Covid at New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday. The 62 year old was admitted to AIIMS for the past several days and was on ventilator suppo...

(Written by Anurag Kundu) Those succumbing to Covid-19 and those requiring hospitalisation are the most visible victims of this catastrophic pandemic, which has seen over 2.7 lakh deaths so far. The loss of livelihood and prevalent hunger are its other visible manifestations. But there are many i...

The CBI's move to arrest two West Bengal ministers and a Trinamool Congress MLA in Kolkata on Monday prompted the Opposition to close ranks behind Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and attack the BJP-led Centre. The opposition parties asked the BJP to reconcile with its defeat in the Assembly election...

The Gujarat High Court on Monday said it was concerned about cases of mucormycosis, also known as black fungus, emerging in the state and asked the government to prepare for the new challenge....

On May 13, Gregory Raymond Raphael and wife Soja, both teachers at St Thomas School in Meerut, received a call saying their 24-year-old son Joefred Varghese Gregory had passed away due to Covid. Joefred's twin Ralphred was at the same hospital battling for his life, and the parents say when they ta...