NEW DELHI — Actress-environmentalist Juhi Chawla Monday approached the Delhi High Court against the setting up of 5G wireless networks in the country, raising issues related to the radiation impact on citizens, animals, flora and fauna. Justice C Hari Shankar, before whom the matter came up for hearing, transferred the suit to another bench for […]
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India records 1.65 lakh COVID-19 cases, 3,460 more fatalities
NEW DELHI – India recorded a single-day rise of 1,65,553 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 46 days, taking the country’s infection tally to 2,78,94,800, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The daily positivity declined to 8.02 per cent, remaining below the 10 per cent-mark for five consecutive days, while the weekly […]
India records 1,73,790 fresh cases, lowest in 45 days
NEW DELHI – India on Saturday recorded 1,73,790 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the cumulative tally past 27.7 million, as the country recorded less than 200,000 cases for the third time in this month, according to the Union health ministry. The fresh infections of the viral contagion recorded on Saturday are the lowest India has seen […]
MHA invites Indian citizenship applications from non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
NEW DELHI – The Centre on Friday invited non-Muslims like Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists belonging to Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan and residing in 13 districts in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Punjab to apply for Indian citizenship. The Union home ministry issued a notification in this effect for immediate implementation of the order under […]
Most social media firms comply with govt’s IT rules; Twitter yet to follow
NEW DELHI – In response to a Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) request to provide information about compliance with the new IT Rules, most major social media intermediaries have shared the details as required, except Twitter, which is yet to send in details about its chief compliance officer. MeitY had written to all […]
Suspension of scheduled international passenger flights extended till June 30
NEW DELHI – Suspension of scheduled international flights has been extended till June 30, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Friday. The decision comes when India is battling the second wave of the covid pandemic, even though there is a decline in cases over the past few weeks. However the restriction […]
India posts 1.86 lakh new Covid -19 cases in 24 hours, lowest in 44 days
NEW DELHI – India recorded 186,364 case and 3,660 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry’s dashboard on Friday. After Friday’s additions, the overall nationwide tally now stands at 27,555,457, while the death toll has increased to 315,235. For the fifteenth consecutive day, recoveries continued to outnumber the daily new […]
News broadcasters demand exemption from new IT rules
NEW DELHI – The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) Thursday urged the government to “exempt and exclude” the traditional television news media and its extended presence on the digital news platforms from the ambit of the IT Rules 2021, saying it is already “sufficiently regulated” by various statutes, laws, guidelines, codes and regulations. “The Information Technology […]
Delhi hospital reports ‘first-ever’ white fungus case causing severe damage to entire intestine
NEW DELHI – Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) has come across a first-of-its-kind case of white fungus which causes multiple perforations “throughout the intestine” in a COVID-19 patient, doctors said on Thursday. “White fungus (Candida) causing multifocal perforations in the food pipe, small bowel and large bowel in COVID-19 infection has not been reported […]
India reports 2,11,298 COVID-19 cases, 3,847 deaths
NEW DELHI – India’s COVID-19 infection tally climbed to 2,73,69,093 as 2,11,298 more people tested positive for the disease in a day, while the country’s recovery went up to 90 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry on Thursday. The death toll due to the disease rose to 3,15,235 with 3,847 fresh fatalities being […]







