Tue, 18 May 2021 14:58:03
Padma Shri awardee and eminent cardiologist Dr KK Aggarwal has died of COVID-19, a statement posted on his Twitter handle said.
Aggarwal (62), who was the former national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), was admitted to the AIIMS here and was on ventilator support since last week.
According to the statement, he passed away at 11.30 pm on Monday after a "lengthy battle with
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:54:36
The Cyclone Tauktae has affected 48 villages in coastal taluks of Uttara kannada, according to the Revenue Minister R Ashoka.
Speaking to presspersons during his visit to cyclone-affected areas in Bhatkal on Tuesday, he said, Giving the initial reports, one person was lost due to cyclone.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:49:53
Four people were killed in Gujarat as cyclone Tauktae pounded parts of the state and left behind a trail of destruction along the western coast, officials said on Tuesday.
The landfall process of the eye of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae, which hit the Gujarat coast in Saurashtra region between Diu and Una, ended around midnight, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:48:15
Supreme Court judge Justice B R Gavai on Tuesday recused himself from hearing a plea filed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking transfer of all inquiries against him to an independent agency outside Maharashtra.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:46:01
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is developing guidelines to treat black fungus or Mucormycosis, sources said on Tuesday.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:43:25
India's COVID-19 death toll climbed to 2,78,719 with a record 4,329 fresh fatalities, while the single day rise in coronavirus cases stood at 2.63 lakh, the lowest in 28 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
The country reported 2,63,533 new cases in a span of 24 hours, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,52,28,996, the data updated at 8 am showed.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:40:42
Senior journalist Mathew Samuel whose brainchild was the Narada sting operation, on Monday said he is satisfied after the CBI arrested two Trinamool Congress ministers, an MLA and a former party minister in connection with its probe into the scam.
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:36:05
A 30-year-old Muslim man was allegedly killed and two others were allegedly wounded in an attack by a group of armed men, police said.
Asif Khan of Nuh’s Kheda Khalilpur and his two cousins were allegedly followed by at least 15 men on motorcycles and beaten near a plywood factory in Nuh’s Atta village, police sources said. His cousins managed to escape, but Khan, a gym trainer, was taken to th
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Tue, 18 May 2021 14:31:48
Days after pointing out that scientists are facing "stubborn resistance to evidence-based policymaking", Jameel quit as the head of INSACOG, a central government panel that conducts genome sequencing of coronavirus.
An official said the virologist did not give any reason for his decision.
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