Dengue: Centre Sends Expert Teams To 9 States, UTs Reporting High Number Of Cases
The Union health ministry has sent expert teams to nine states and union territories, which are reporting a high number of dengue cases. The expert teams will support the states in public health measures for control and management of the dengue disease. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya during a review meeting on the dengue situation […]
China’s push on multiple fronts rattles Pentagon
WASHINGTON: China’s growing military muscle and its drive to end American predominance in the Asia-Pacific is rattling the US defence establishment. American officials see trouble quickly accumulating on multiple fronts — Beijing’s expanding nuclear arsenal, its advances in space, cyber and missile technologies, and threats to Taiwan. The pace at which China is moving is […]
Bypolls 2021: TMC Winning Bengal, BJP Assam And MP; Good News For Congress In Himachal And Rajasthan
Counting trends in the by-elections in three Parliamentary and 30 assembly constituencies across the country suggest that All-India Trinamool Congress has solidified its hold in West Bengal, while the BJP remains the dominant force in Assam. The BJP, which won 38-percent votes in Bengal – compared to 47 percent of the TMC – in the […]
Man with knife injures 17 passengers on Tokyo train
TOKYO: A man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said. The Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were injured, including three seriously. Not all of […]
Covid-19: India Records 12,514 New Cases; Active Cases Lowest In 248 Days
12,514 people tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday. India’s total tally of Covid-19 cases rose to 3,42,85,814, while the active cases declined to 1,58,817, the lowest in 248 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. 251 fresh fatalities were recorded as the cumulative death toll stood at 4,58,437 , according to the data updated at 8 […]
US hits Iran drone programme with sanctions
WASHINGTON: The United States has issued a fresh round of Iran-related sanctions tied to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone programme that it said threatened regional stability, the Treasury Department said on Friday. US officials, in a statement, said the IRGC has been providing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones for use by Iran-backed […]
Active Covid cases in country increase to 1,61,555
With 14,313 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India’s total tally of Covid cases rose to 3,42,60,470, while the active cases were recorded at 1,61,555, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll climbed to 4,57,740 with 549 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. […]
Moscow starts nonworking period to stem coronavirus infections
The Russian capital on Thursday started a nonworking period intended to stem coronavirus infections as new daily cases and deaths from Covid-19 surged to all-time highs. The government coronavirus task force reported 1,159 deaths in 24 hours, the largest daily tally since the pandemic began. The country’s official death toll from the pandemic, by far […]
Aryan Khan may go home by Friday evening
Even as the Bombay High Court has granted bail to actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, who was arrested in drugs-on-cruise case, his lawyers will have to wait till they get the high court’s operative order for taking further steps towards securing his release from jail. Once the high court gives the order copy […]
Chinese hypersonic test like a ‘Sputnik moment’: US general
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s top general said on Wednesday that China’s recent test of an earth-circling hypersonic missile was akin to the Soviet Union’s stunning launch of the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, which sparked the superpowers’ space race. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed for the first time the Chinese […]