Even as the Madhya Pradesh is reeling under a shortage of anti-viral drug Remdesivir, 850 vials of the injection were stolen from Bhopal's Gandhi Medical College on Friday. Police said the grill of the storage unit, situated on the first floor of the hospital building, was cut open to steal the via...

THE second Covid surge has touched states where there are no elections and so linking it to polls is 'not right,' Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Friday, adding that the situation, as of now, doesn't warrant a 'lockdown in a hurry.' He added that a 'full-fledged' fight was on and that he was con...

Kerala Saturday reported an all-time high of 13,835 fresh Covid cases after testing was ramped up as part of a two-day mass testing programme. The test positivity rate also shot up to 17.4 per cent—from 14.5 per cent just before the drive—for the first time since October. On Friday, 1.3...

Three people, including a panchayat member from the Bharatiya Janata Party, were arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday in an extortion case. The arrest took place in Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramulla district. According to a police statement, the complaint was filed by a man named Mu...

Fearing a spurt in Covid-19 cases, multiple states have announced restrictions on those returning from the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. The Sunday Express takes a look at the announcements: Delhi: The Delhi Disaster Management Authority has directed all residents who visited the mela to upload their det...

Kalyan Ray, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday assured the high burden states to supply nearly 1.17 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccines by next week and more than 6,300 ventilators to fight the unprecedented second surge of the epidemic. At a review meeting with state ministers and offici...

In booth after booth, a lack of social distancing, no temperature checks, incomplete mask compliance, and barely any seriousness on compliance. That was the scene as West Bengal voted on Saturday. If the Assembly polls in Bihar held in October 2020 were in the middle of a previous wave of the pande...

After BJP leader and Bharuch MP Mansukh Vasava lashed out at 'government-appointed officers' over 'diverting' the few available doctors from Narmada district amid the pandemic and the 'lack of medical facilities' in the tribal district, the Rajpipla Civil Hospital is set to get 15 new ventilators...

Several politicians and bureaucrats have tested positive for the virus over the last few days, including at least two chief ministers, a Union Minister, leaders of the opposition and the Chief Election Commissioner, among others. Union Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Minister K...

Get email alerts for your favourite author. Sign up here Two questions first. Who is to blame for our alarming shortage of vaccines? Why have they not already been sacked for criminal negligence? Having said this, let me honestly admit that in this very space a month ago, I wrote that our governmen...

Four Covid patients died of suffocation and another due to burn injuries when a fire broke out on the third floor of a private hospital in Raipur. Nine patients were inside Rajdhani Hospital's Covid ward where the fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, allegedly due to a short circuit. Raipur SP Aj...

You have been working on West Bengal since 2016. What has changed since then? When I started in 2016, we did not have an organisation here. We worked hard from 2016 to 2019 to build up an organisation. I started seeing glimpses of the people's adulation and following for (Narendra) Modiji, his po...

As new Covid cases in Gujarat remain on a steep upward slope daily — 9,541 cases and 97 deaths were reported on Saturday — harried patients continue running from pillar to post, with hospital beds occupied to nearly full capacity. Also, an increasing test positivity rate, now at nearly ...

AFP, Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday bid farewell to her late husband, Prince Philip, at a royal funeral like no other, restricted by coronavirus rules but reflecting his long life of military and public service. The Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 at age 99, was interred in the Royal Vault a...

The Hotel and Restaurant Association of Western India (HRAWI) and the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Gujarat (HRA-Gujarat) have submitted a representation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow takeaway and home delivery services till 12 am for hotels and restaurants in the state. 'The food ...

The department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has notified the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for ACs and LED lights and said that selection of companies to avail the incentives would be done to support manufacturing of components that are not currently manufactured ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet as soon as Monday, the US space agency reported, following a delay of more than a week due to a possible technical issue....

Get email alerts for your favourite author. Sign up here When I first campaigned in an election in 1977, the situation was not ugly. There were some undesirable things in that election but not the ugly things that we see today. Year: 1977. State: Tamil Nadu. Indira Gandhi had called an election, fr...

Mumbai police summoned a director of Bruck Pharma, a Daman-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company that manufactures Remdesivir for questioning about a huge quantity of the drug stored in Mumbai. The person, who the police did not identify, was let go from the Vile Parle police station where he ...

The Surat police on Saturday arrested six persons, including a laboratory technician, laboratory owner, medical store owner and a medical representative, as part of a crackdown on rackets involved in black marketing of Remdesivir injtections. A total of 12 vials of the antiviral injections were sei...

Ladakh schools closed till April 30. Shrikant Balasaheb Suse, Chairman, district disaster management authority, has issued a notice, asking all government and private schools along with coaching centres to remain closed till April 30 amid the Covid-19 outbreak across the country. Excerpts from Ladak...

The NCLAT has dismissed the petition by Deccan Value Investors challenging the NCLT approval to its resolution plan for debt-ridden Amtek Auto without execution of a lease of a property. A three-member National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) Bench also imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the US-...

President Joe Biden played golf for the first time in his presidency Saturday, hitting the fairways in his home city of Wilmington -- and taking a page from his golf-obsessed predecessor Donald Trump's book....

The percentage of senior citizens among those getting infected and succumbing to Covid-19 in Maharashtra has increased from last year, data from public health department shows. In 2020, 3.23 lakh people or 15.94 per cent of total infections in Maharashtra were of people aged more than 60 years. In ...

Following the series of violent protests by the radical Islamist party, the provincial government in Pakistan's Punjab on Saturday placed Saad Rizvi, the chief of the banned party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), on the country's fourth schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), Geo News reports. ...

Trent Boult and Rahul Chahar took three wickets apiece as Mumbai Indians claimed their second victory of the 2021 Indian Premier League against winless Sunrisers Hyderabad. (HIGHLIGHTS | SCORECARD | POINTS TABLE | FULL SCHEDULE) Mumbai posted a modest 150-5 from their allocation on Saturday with t...

Live Streaming Cricket Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2021 The misfiring Kolkata Knight Riders will look to bring their campaign back on track when they take on table-toppers Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2021 at Chepauk stadium on Sunday. In the battle between the...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has warned WhatsApp users in India of multiple vulnerabilities it detected in the instant messaging platform, which could lead to breach of sensitive user data and personal information. In a 'high' severity rating advisory, the CERT-In said that...

After declining for two consecutive weeks, the forex reserves jumped by $4.34 billion to reach $581.21 billion during the week ended April 9, according to data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The rise in forex reserves comes alongside the continuing high global liquidity and fund flow into th...

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has directed all the residents of Delhi, who have visited the Kumbh at Haridwar from April 4 till date, to upload their details in the Delhi government website and go for compulsory 'Home Quarantine' for 14 days. If anyone violates the directive, he or...

Accusing the BJP government of 'colossal mismanagement' of the fight against the pandemic, the Congress on Saturday said the Centre has failed on multiple fronts, including in creating public awareness that a waning pandemic could be precursor to a deadlier second wave and rapidly scaling up the pr...

The Bombay High Court on Friday allowed a woman to terminate her 30-week pregnancy after a medical board appointed by the court found that the child might not survive and continuation of the pregnancy would be dangerous for petitioner's life. The court also said that as the petitioner and her husba...

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On the sidelines of the fifth phase of polling in West Bengal, marked by sporadic violence, the Trinamool and BJP on Saturday clashed over an audio tape purportedly featuring Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee talking about taking out rallies with bodies of those killed in firing by security forces dur...

Anticipating shortage of beds in Mumbai, BMC has indicated that additional beds from private hospitals, besides what is mandated, will be used to accommodate Covid-19 patients. According to norms, 80 per cent of beds in private hospitals are at present kept aside for Covid-19 patients. Officials fr...

A total of 60.71 per cent voting was recorded in three Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan where by-polls were held on Saturday, the Election Commission said in a release. Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta said that according to preliminary information, the highest voting percentage was regist...

Amid an alarming surge in coronavirus cases, at least 78.36 per cent of voters turned out to exercise their franchise during the fifth phase of polling in 45 Assembly constituencies spread in six districts of West Bengal till 5 pm on Thursday. Jalpaiguri (7 seats) recorded 81.73% turnout, followed ...

Holding the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) responsible for the second wave of coronavirus in India, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said that the virus spread across the country more rapidly from those states, where polls were either held recently...

In a major boost to the state's health machinery, a Wardha-based critical care injection manufacturing company has been granted the licence to manufacture 30,000 vials of remdesivir injection per day. The development came on Saturday following an initiative taken by Union Transport Minister and N...

A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to Punjabi actor-activist Deep Sidhu, arrested in connection with the violence at Red Fort on Republic Day, saying that the prosecution had sought to make an example of him since he was popular, but that this 'hazards a failure of justice', and that his continued...

MI vs SRH IPL 2021 HIGHLIGHTS, Match 9 CRICKET UPDATES Hello and welcome to our live coverage of VIVO IPL, match 9 of the 14th edition of the lucrative T20 tournament will be played between Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Trent Boult and Rahul Chahar pi...

After the first US-Japan in-person summit in Washington on Friday, Taiwanese foreign policy experts have predicted that more action would be taken by the Joe Biden administration in relation to the defence of Taiwan. Both Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the leader's summit have...

Gangsters from Delhi, Haryana and Punjab have reportedly moved to locations such as Dubai, Thailand and Canada from where they are operating gangs in India. Their inspiration, police sources say, is underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company. A team of the Special Cell's Counter Intelligence Unit s...

Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases in Delhi, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has decided to reopen a medical facility near the Delhi airport. As per the DRDO officials, medical teams from Armed Force Medical Service (AFMS) and two doctors from Central Armed Police Forces (CRPF) ...

Yet again, Sunrisers Hyderabad batting imploded from a position of strength, twice on the spin now. Yet again, Mumbai Indians snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Against Royal Challengers Bangalore three days ago, Sunrisers had slipped from 115/2 at one stage, chasing 150 for victory. Against...

Sunrisers Hyderabad's middle-order continued to misfire as spinner Rahul Chahar and pacer Trent Boult fashioned Mumbai Indians to a 13-run win in their IPL match at Chepauk on Saturday. Defending 150 on a tricky surface, leg-spinner Chahar - 3/19 - stifled the middle-order before Boult - 3/28 - poli...

Amid surge in Covid-19 cases across the state, the bypoll to the Pandharpur assembly constituency in Solapur district reported a provisional 64 per cent voter turnout on Saturday. Officials from the Chief Electoral Officer's office said the final figures of the voter turnout will arrive on Sunday. ...

At least five persons were killed after a fire broke out in Raipur's Rajdhani hospital on Saturday....