India

Petrol had already crossed the ‘milestone’. Now it’s the turn of diesel to hit a ‘century’. For the first time in India, the price of diesel crossed Rs 100 per litre on Saturday. It's at Rajasthan’s Ganganagar that diesel price soared to…

New Delhi: For the first time in 70 days, India reported less than 90,000 daily COVID-19 cases on Saturday. The country logged 84,332 new infections in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative caseload to 29,359,155 on Saturday, the Union…

Paris: France President Emmanuel Macron on Friday asked some G7 nations to lift the export ban on raw materials needed to produce COVID-19 vaccines to India. “I will take just one example, India. India, in particular Serum Institute of…

New Delhi: India reported 91,702 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the infection tally to 2,92,74,823 on Friday, the Union Health Ministry reported. Incidentally, this is the lowest single-day rise in infections in around…

New Delhi: India reported 86,498 new COVID-19 infections in 24 hours on Tuesday. The count of less than one lakh cases was recorded for the first time in 66 days, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry. This is also the…

New Delhi: The country recorded 1.14 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, which is the lowest in two months, the Union Health Ministry reported on Sunday. This was also the 10th successive day when the country registered less…

New Delhi: India must quickly prepare to deal with the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic that could impact the younger population more, feels Niti Aayog member VK Saraswat. The second wave, which caught India unawares and hit the country…

New Delhi: India has overtaken the US in the number of people who have been given the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the government said on Friday. “The vaccination data put out by Our World in Data shows that India has administered the…

New Delhi: Questions have been asked in several quarters as to how everyone in India can be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of this year ever since Union Minister Prakash Javadekar made that claim last week. On Wednesday, another…

New Delhi: A possible third wave of COVID-19 pandemic can’t be predicted but can be prevented, and so India must work towards that. That’s the view of World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia regional director Dr Poonam Khetrapal…