Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Jammu & Kashmir, which is experiencing an increase in Covid cases as part of the Covid surge nationwide, has added 27 oxygen generating plants in the past six months as part of its efforts to improve its medical infrastructure and its preparation. Ten more plants will be added this month and another 40…
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NEW DELHI: Amid rising Covid-19 cases, a storm is brewing in the Punjab Y Haryana superior court where the HC Bar Association has passed a resolution demanding the transfer of the Chief Justice RS Jha and has decided to boycott his court, forcing the highest regulatory body of defenders, Council of Lawyers of India, to…
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Former Maharashtra Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh NEW DELHI: The Directorate of Execution has launched an investigation into extortion charges against former Maharashtra interior minister Anil Deshmukh as part of an investigation under the Anti-Money Laundering Act that will also look at the role of the former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param One Singh, the accuser in…
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Stock Photo PATNA / BUXAR: A day after dozens of decomposed and half-burned corpses floated through the Bargain dumped ashore in the village of Chausa in Buxar, officials from Bihar and neighboring UP participated in a blame game over which state was responsible for dumping bodies into the river. The Bihar government said 71 bodies…
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PANAJI: Minister of Health of Goa Vishwajit rane made a surprising announcement on Tuesday: that many Covid patients were dying due to oxygen supply problems in the early hours of each morning in Goa College of Medicine, and that 26 had died between the same hours of Tuesday. The minister asked the Bombay High Court…
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SRINAGAR: Three Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists hiding in a house in Kokernag, in the southern Kashmir district of Anantnag, were shot dead by security forces on Tuesday after they rejected an offer to surrender and opened fire on the advancing team, J&K police said. Villagers caught in the crossfire were safely evacuated after the joint police team,…
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NEW DELHI: Coronavirus variant B.1.617, also known as ‘double mutant’, leads to loss of antibody neutralization, but is modest, Anurag Agrawal, director of the Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology, said Tuesday, noting that the vaccines are effective against it. The research, of which Agrawal was a part, also suggested that vaccines are likely to…
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NEW DELHI: On Tuesday, Congress responded to BJP chief JP Nadda for his letter to party president Sonia Gandhi, accusing Rahul Gandhi of duplicity on the Covid-19 situation, saying that the communication It reeked of arrogance and denial and the total failure of the government to handle the coronavirus situation. Congressional spokesman Ajay Maken refuted…
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NEW DELHI: After days of unfolding horror unleashed by the second wave of Covid, there is a glimmer of hope. India is finally seeing an early trend of decline in new cases and also in the number of deaths due to the virus, according to the government. And this decline is being led by states…
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SRINAGAR: Three local Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists were killed in the Vailoo village in the Kokernag area of the Anantnag district in southern Kashmir during an encounter on Tuesday, police said. The police, who acted with specific information about the presence of three terrorists in a residential house in the town of Sheikhpora, Kokernag, launched a joint…
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