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The right-wing organization felt that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not being provided adequate information regarding the COVID crisis and asked the team in his office to be replaced.
With this, petrol is now priced at Rs 91.63 a litre and diesel Rs 86.48 a litre in Kochi. In Thiruvananthapuram, the petrol costs Rs 93.51 per litre and diesel costs Rs 88.25.
Officials said most of those killed were schoolgirls. Some families were still searching hospitals for their children.
In the past 18 days, India's daily Covid tally has risen by over three lakh cases and over 3,000 casualties have been reported for the last 12 days.
Responding to a question, Dr Fauci said that India needs to immediately build makeshift field hospitals like what China did a year ago.
The development comes following a Supreme Court directive asking the Centre to reconsider its prices on Covid vaccines to ensure it withstands the scrutiny of Articles 14 (equality before law) and Article 21 (protection of life and personal liberty).
The news of Vohra's death comes just a day after he posted on Facebook saying he could have been saved had he received proper treatment and he will be born again soon.
In wake of rising COVID-19 cases, the governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka has imposed total lockdown in their states from May 10 to 24.
Veteran leaders such as Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim, Jyoti Priya Mallick, Moloy Ghatak, Aroop Biswas, Dr Shashi Panja and Javed Ahmed Khan are expected to be made cabinet ministers.
Some 400 medical officers are expected to serve on contract for a maximum of 11 months.
Currently, domestic supplies and commercial imports of vaccines attract a 5 per cent Goods and Services Tax, while it is 12 per cent in case of COVID drugs and oxygen concentrators.
Police in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district, have appealed to the ultras, who contracted the virus, to return to the mainstream and seek treatment.
BJP's lead strategist in northeastern states and party's senior leader Himanta Biswa Sarma would be the next Chief Minister of Assam as he on Sunday was elected the leader of the BJP legislature party by the newly elected MLAs.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said although COVID-19 cases have come down in the last few days, any slackness would squander the gains achieved so far.
Registering a steady increase, the active cases have increased to 37,36,648, comprising 16.76 per cent of the total infections.
The CPI may forgo one of its seats and the post of the Chief Whip with cabinet rank, if it would help in solving the issue rising out of single-MLA parties’ demand.
Parts of the Long March 5B re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 a.m. Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed at a location with the coordinates of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north.
The IMA has been insisting for a complete and well-planned national lockdown to ramp up health infrastructure and replenish both material and manpower.
The National Task Force will formulate a methodology for allocation of oxygen to states and union territories for saving lives of COVID-19 patients and to facilitate a public health response to the pandemic.
The establishment of the Task Force will provide the Union Government with inputs and strategies for meeting the challenges of the pandemic on a transparent and professional basis, in the present and in future, the bench said.
In a significant directive to states and Union Territories, the Union Health Ministry on Saturday said a positive COVID-19 test report is not mandatory for admission to a health facility.
Modi has been interacting with various chief ministers over telephone for the last couple of days to take stock of the pandemic situation in their states.
It said clinical trials of the drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) showed that it helps in faster recovery of hospitalised patients and reduces supplemental oxygen dependence.
Both incumbent Chief Minister Sonowal and Health Minister Sarma were on Friday called to New Delhi by the BJP central leadership, apparently to discuss the leadership issue in Assam.
The top court took note of its March 23, 2020, order by which it had directed all states and UTs to constitute high-powered committee (HPC) to consider releasing on parole or interim bail prisoners and the under trials for offences entailing up to 7-year jail term to decongest prisons in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.
The state-run liquor outlets operated by Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC), all bars, spas, gyms, beauty parlours, saloons, auditoriums, cinema theatres, recreation clubs and amusement and zoological parks will be shut during this period.
The national COVID-19 recovery rate has dropped to 81.90 per cent, the data updated at 8am showed.
Indian-Americans have been raising millions of dollars and have been sending life-saving health care equipment and medicines to India.
K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, said the 'insidious asymptomatic transmission' can be stopped if the guidance about precautions, surveillance, containment, treatment and testing is followed.
The development came in the wake of an alarming rise in COVID cases and related fatalities.
The Centre's decision to allocate these doses to 21 states and Union territories (UTs) came after Prakash Kumar Singh, director, Government and Regulatory Affairs at Pune-based Serum Institute of India, recently wrote to the Union health ministry seeking permission for the same.
A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said the high court order of May 5 is a well calibrated, deliberated and judicious exercise of power.
WhatsApp had faced severe backlash over user concerns that data was being shared with parent company Facebook.
Issuing his first set of orders after taking over as CM, Stalin also announced bringing covid treatment in private hospitals under a government insurance scheme, to provide succour to such people.
Addressing the virtual meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party, she said the Congress Working Committee (CWC) would meet soon to review the assembly poll results.
Two days ago, the top court had stayed the contempt proceedings initiated by Delhi High Court against central government officials for non-compliance of direction to supply 700 MT of oxygen for COVID patients to Delhi, saying putting officers in jail would not bring oxygen and efforts should be made to save lives.
Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) meeting virtually, she said the battle against the pandemic transcends political differences and everyone has to fight it together as a nation.
Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Rangasamy. He took the oath in Tamil and in the name of God.
Patents reward innovation by preventing competitors from simply copying a company's discovery and launching a rival product.
This new feature will be applicable only for citizens who have done an online booking for a vaccination slot.
Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year old Stalin, for whom this would be the first stint as CM.
Senior leader Kapil Sibal demanded the leadership to seriously examine the factors that had led to the party’s rout.
The death toll has increased to 2,34,083 with 3,915 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
