India

CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi has ensured Jalandhar’s blind cricketer Tejinderpal gets his Rs.2 Lakh award money released. The amount was stuck for six long years.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the New Year, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Thursday imposed a night curfew in Delhi, disallowing celebrations and the assembly of over five people at public places in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the new strain of the virus.

NEW DELHI: A total of 25 people in the country have tested positive for the new UK variant genome of SARS-CoV-2 so far, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Total of 20 persons have been found with the mutant variant of SARS- CoV-2 virus reported from UK. These include the six persons reported earlier (3 in NIMHANS, Bengaluru, 2 in CCMB, Hyderabad and 1 in NIV, Pune). 107 samples were tested in the 10 labs as indicated in the …

NEW DELHI: India has reported 20,549 new COVID-19 cases and 286 more deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 1,02,44,852 and the death toll to 1,48,439.

CHANDIGARH, DECEMBER 29: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will give free Wi-Fi facility to the farmers protesting against the centre’s black agriculture laws at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border, to address the problem of internet, so that they can respond to the anti-struggle campaigners. The announcement was made by AAP Punjab …

NEW DELHI: Till now, the government was calling the farmers who were against the new agricultural law misguided, but now a farmer leader has said that the government itself is misguided about the agricultural reforms.

NEW DELHI: India has reported its first six cases of the new coronavirus strain. A total of 6 samples of 6 UK returnees were found to be positive with the new UK variant.

NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Safdarjung recorded 3.6 degrees Celsius temperature at 8:30 am on Tuesday which is likely to fall by 2 degrees Celsius during the next 24 hours, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

NEW DELHI: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has launched India’s first indigenous pneumococcal conjugate vaccine ‘Pneumosil’, developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII).