Wed, 19 May 2021 12:50:11
India registered a 13 per cent decrease in new COVID-19 cases in the past week but the number of fresh infections was still the highest around the world, the WHO has said.
The number of new cases and deaths continued to decrease with just over 4.8 million new cases and just under 86,000 new deaths reported globally in the past week, a 12 per cent and 5 per cent decrease respectively compared t
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:41:24
Karnataka Minister for Revenue R Ashok on Tuesday said that Rs 106 crore was available with the district administrations of Uttara Kannada, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada for undertaking relief works in cyclone-hit areas.
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:36:54
The operation to lift the tug vessel ''Alliance'' that sank off the coast here on Saturday and ran aground near Padubidri beach in Udupi district, began on Tuesday.
The operation is being monitored by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), which had contracted the vessel owned by Underwater Services Company Limited.
The company has given the contract to Yojak company for the o
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:32:47
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that more pharma companies should be allowed to manufacture the COVID-19 vaccine in the country during the pandemic to scale up production.
While addressing a meeting via video conferencing Gadkari said, "If the demand of vaccine is more than the supply, it creates the problem. So, instead of one company, let 10 more companies be given the license to
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:28:45
Battling extreme weather, the Indian Navy and Coast Guard have so far rescued 317 people on board two barges that went adrift in the Arabian Sea near Mumbai hours before Cyclone Tauktae made landfall on the Gujarat coast, but 390 more remain stranded or missing from offshore facilities, an official said on Tuesday.
Three barges and an oil rig with 707 personnel on board had gone adrift on Monda
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:22:54
The government will consider including India's first indigenous anti-COVID drug 2-DG in the national COVID-19 treatment protocol after examining the data of the medicine, officials said Tuesday.
At a press conference, NITI Aayog member (health) Dr V K Paul said Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has granted permission for emergency use of the drug after looking at the data.
The drug 2-
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:11:47
The All-India Muslim Law Board and the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board on Tuesday alleged that the administration in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki pulled down a mosque and demanded a judicial probe into it.
Meanwhile, the authorities said they demolished an illegal structure on court orders.
"The century-old Garib Nawaz mosque in Ram Sanehi Ghat tehsil was demolished by the administration without an
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:08:33
Uttar Pradesh Minister of State for Revenue and Flood Control Vijay Kashyap died from coronavirus at a Gurgaon hospital on Tuesday.
Kashyap (56), who was an MLA from Muzaffarnagar's Charthawal Assembly seat, died at Gurgaon's Medanta Hospital.
He is the third UP minister who has succumbed to the virus.
Last year, Uttar Pradesh ministers Kamal Rani Varun and Chetan Chauhan had died from th
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Wed, 19 May 2021 12:06:58
Former South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis has revealed that he and his wife received death threats after a mix-up with AB de Villiers led to the latter's run out during their 2011 World Cup semifinal defeat to New Zealand.
Played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka, South Africa lost the match by 49 runs to be knocked out of the tournament, which was won by co-hosts India.
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