NEW DELHI – The University Grants Commission has asked universities not to conduct offline exams in May and decide on conducting online exams after assessing local conditions. The commission stressed in its letter to all universities and colleges that during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health and safety of everyone is most important. Online exams are […]
NEW DELHI – The Union Health Ministry has issued revised guidelines for home isolation for patients with mild or asymptomatic symptoms. The new revised guidelines said, “Patient under home isolation will stand discharged and end isolation after at least 10 days have passed from onset of symptoms (or from date of sampling for asymptomatic cases) […]
NEW DELHI – India set a new global record Thursday after the country registered its biggest single-day rise in coronavirus cases of over 412,000 in the last 24 hours. The Health Ministry reported 412,262 new cases, taking the country’s total number of infections to over 21 million. With a record 3,980 new fatalities, the death […]
UNITED NATIONS – The tragic” COVID-19 situation in India should raise the alarm bells for all of us and there will be reverberations across the region and the world in terms of virus-related deaths, virus mutations and supply delays unless the world steps up and helps the country now, the head of the UN children’s […]
AMRITSAR (PUNJAB) – Dal Khalsa on Wednesday expressed grief over the demise of Chairman of Theerek-e-Hurriyat Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai at Jammu hospital. Leaders of Dal Khalsa as per a statement issued to the news agency Kashmir News Observer expressed their condolences on Sehrai’s death. They said he was a man of principles and commitment. They […]
NEW DELHI – A record 3,780 fresh COVID-19 fatalities were registered in a single day in India taking the death toll to 2,26,188, while 3,82,315 few coronavirus infections were recorded, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. With the fresh cases, the total tally of COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to […]
HYDERABAD – National Covid-19 Supermodel Committee has said that it could not predict the exact nature of the second wave of the pandemic in India. The panel, however, is continuing its efforts to better estimate its future trajectory. The committee comprising three scientists working on the SUTRA model for charting the trajectory of Covid-19, denied […]
NEW DELHI – More than half of the people are upset, angry and depressed or worried about the way the second wave of Covid-19 is handled by the government while opinion is split on whether the country is on the right track in controlling the pandemic, a survey has claimed. At the same time, a […]
NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court on Monday said educational institutions must reduce fees as their running costs have come down considering the COVID lockdown since last year due to which the campus’ have remained closed. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari, according to a report by ToI, said the management […]
NEW DELHI – India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the 2 crore mark with 3,57,229 infections being reported in a day, while the death toll increased to 2,22,408 with 3,449 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The total tally of COVID-19 cases in the country has climbed to […]