NEW DIGITAL RULES: IT MINISTRY DEMANDS COMPLIANCE REPORT FROM SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES The Ministry for Information and Technology asked social media platforms to submit a compliance report to its controversial new digital rules—a development after Facebook-owned Whatsapp su
RECOVERY RATE AT 90% OR ABOVE IN 14 STATES, UTS 14 states and UTs have now reached a Covid recovery rate of 90% and above. This has also significantly brought down the total active caseloads across the country to less than 26 lakh on Tuesday, from a peak of 37 lakh earlier this month. The hig
HEALTH MINISTER’S COVID BRIEFING As many as 5,424 cases of mucormycosis or black fungus have been reported from 18 states, with a majority of them in Gujarat and Maharashtra, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday.
INDIA’S COVID TOLL TOPS 3L, 50,000 DEATHS IN 12 DAYS More than 3 lakh people have succumbed to Covid-19 in India’s official records. It took just 12 days to go from 2.5-lakh to 3-lakh mark.
BIDEN URGES 'DE-ESCALATION', NETANYAHU SAYS WILL PRESS ON WITH GAZA ATTACKS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to press ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, pushing back against calls from US President Joe Biden to wind down the ope
WEEKLY COVID CASES FALL FOR FIRST TIME IN 2ND WAVE For the first time during the course of the second Covid wave, India logged fall in cases in the week ended Sunday as the infection eased in many parts of the country. On Sunday, daily cases reported in the country fell below th
PM NARENDRA MODI PAYS EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO COVID VICTIMS Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid an emotional tribute to over 2.91 lakh Indians who have succumbed to Covid-19.
INDIA WILL BE IN POSITION TO VACCINATE ALL ADULTS BY YEAR END: CENTRE The union Health minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said yesterday that 51 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses will be made available by July and 216 crore more between August and December.
1.8% OF INDIA AFFECTED BY COVID, 98% STILL VULNERABLE: GOVT India's reproduction value (R) for COVID-19, which shows how fast the infection is spreading, is below one now which means that the pandemic is shrinking, the government said on Tuesday even as it cautioned that 98 per
CYCLONE TAUKTAE MOVES INTO GUJARAT, AFTER MUMBAI BATTLES HIGH WINDS, HEAVY RAIN A very severe cyclonic storm with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour began making landfall on the Gujarat coast Monday night, after dumping heavy rains on Mumbai, forcing the evacuation of over 1.5
