NEW DELHI, India -- India has sharply criticised a forthcoming World Health Organization study which reportedly claims coronavirus killed four million people nationally, the latest analysis suggesting a significant undercount of the pandemic's death toll. The New York Times reported last week that...
NEW DELHI, India -- At least 14 people were killed and many others injured after heavy rains, lightning and storms lashed India's northeastern state of Assam, officials said Sunday. "Eight people were killed on Friday and six deaths were reported on Saturday," said an official at Assam State...
NEW DELHI, India -- India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,042,097 on Sunday as 1,150 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, four deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the death toll to 521,751....
NEW DELHI, India -- India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,038,016 on Wednesday, as 1,088 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, as many as 26 deaths due to the pandemic since Tuesday morning took the total death...
NEW DELHI, India -- The prices of Covishield and Covaxin vaccines have been slashed in India, the companies announced Saturday. Both vaccines will cost 2.96 U.S. dollars per dose. India's federal health ministry Friday announced that those above the age of 18 years, nine months after the...
NEW DELHI, India -- India's Covid-19 tally rose to 42,951,556 on Friday, as 6,396 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 201 deaths from the pandemic since Thursday morning took the total death toll to...
NEW DELHI -- India's COVID-19 tally rose to 39,237,264 on Sunday, as 333,533 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. This is the fourth consecutive day when over 300,000 new cases were registered in a day in the...
NEW DELHI, India – India Sunday reported 159,632 new COVID-19 cases, which is over a five-fold increase since the beginning of the new year. On Jan. 1, the total number of new cases was only 27,553. The virus continues to spread at an unprecedented pace, largely driven by the highly...
NEW DELHI, India -- Over 400 Indian parliament staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, local media reports said Sunday. According to officials, the employees were subjected to random testing from Tuesday to Saturday, and most of the infected cases were found to be asymptomatic, reports...
NEW DELHI, India – Haunted by the specter of last year's crisis, India is bracing for a deluge of Covid-19 cases, with authorities of various megacities bringing in restrictions in a bid to keep infections in check. Case numbers have yet to match the enormous figures seen last spring when...
NEW DELHI -- India on Monday morning started vaccinating children aged 15 to 18 against COVID-19 amid fears of a surge in infections of the Omicron variant. India's federal health minister Mansukh Mandaviya shared photographs of children getting vaccinated to mark the beginning of the inoculation...
The beauty queen inspires the youth to believe in themselves and use their voice to make the world a better place NEWLY CROWNED QUEEN Ms. Harnaaz Sandhu in her official portrait as Miss Universe 2021 In our current era, technology is like a magical genie that allows us to have everything we ever...