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Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded six more Covid-19 deaths that pushed its toll to 412 while Ghaziabad had another three, pushing its fatality count to 405, official data showed on Friday.

Calling it a total failure on part of the central and state governments, former minister U T Khader questioned why vaccines were sent to Pakistan and Bangladesh when people of India were not given the shots.

Former speaker of the Karnataka legislative assembly Krishna, popularly known as KR Pete Krishna, died at his Mysuru residence on Friday, sources close to him said. Krishna (80), suffering from cancer, had undergone treatment at a private hospital in Chennai.

​​​​Daimary had submitted his nomination on Thursday in presence of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and BJP state president Ranjeet Kumar Dass in the assembly secretariat.

Tribal people of some rural pockets in the state do not have exposure to several information sources, but Community Radios try to give updates on Covid-19 issues and sensitize them about the preventive steps to keep the second wave of pandemic at bay.

After being hit hard by Covid-induced lockdowns last year, Assam’s tea industry is reeling from rainfall deficit this year, and as a result tea production till May is projected to drop by about 60 million kg as compared to the same period in 2019.

With rising Covid-19 cases, there is also an increase in frauds in the name of the virus. To combat this, a group of advocates from across India led by Kishlaya Mishra have launched Covid Legal Relief and are spreading awareness on Instagram and Facebook.

Gurwinder Singh, former sarpanch of Sheetalpur village near Jalandhar, said that after levelling his fields and removing any traces of weed, he is experimenting with sowing by just throwing the seeds ( Chhitta) as is done with wheat. “I have already done this on three acres and would do it on two acres more. On the remaining 25 acres, I shall do seeding on beds,” he said.

Defunct ventilators coupled with lack of technicians to handle them are giving doctors at the taluk Covid hospitals a tough time.

Covid-19 isolation centres set up at government schools and institutions in villages of Haryana’s Jind district are an eyewash, according to residents of six villages in Uchana Kalan constituency which TOI visited earlier this week.

Various industries’ associations and corporate houses have sought the state government’s help in vaccinating employees and their family members. A meeting between such associations, PSUs and corporate houses was held on Wednesday to discuss the issue in which the government agreed to help the corporate houses facilitate direct purchase of vaccines from the open market.

In what may set the alarm bells ringing for the state prisons authorities, as many as 96 inmates of the special jail in Jharpada here have tested positive for Covid-19. The cases were from among the 195 swab samples collected in the last 24 hours, thereby registering an alarming test positivity rate of 49.23%. The development comes in the wake of the ongoing decongestion of jails following a Supreme Court directive. At least 775 prisoners have been released on bail and parole in the state between May 1 and 15.

Odisha on Thursday reported 25 Covid deaths, the highest in one day since the beginning of the pandemic last year, taking the officially confirmed toll to 2,403. While positive cases in the second wave is now almost equal to that in the first, the number of deaths reported is less than one-third so far. Government figures said 1929 Covid patients (0.58%) died last year — 1876 of Covid and 53 Covid patients died due to other reasons. This year, however, only 527 have died of Covid (there is no report... Читать дальше...

With the Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) unable to conduct examinations owing to the pandemic, the state government is all set to promote Class IX and Class XI students to the next session. The government pointed out that the session has already been delayed.

Soon after taking charge as the new Assam Accord Implementation minister, Atul Bora stepped into the office of the All Assam Students' Union (Aasu) at Swahid Nyas Bhawan Uzanbazar here on Thursday to meet the top office bearers of the student body, including chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya, his old comrade in arms.

The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) has elected senior leader and Nazira MLA, Debabrata Saikia as its leader in the assembly. He was unanimously elected as the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader by the party MLAs.

The Odisha government has asked a committee doing death audit of covid patients to expedite the process to early assess the virus death toll correctly amid reports that the deaths may be underreported.

An Indian-origin Human Sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford has been declared the winner at the end of a Student Union (SU) byelection.

Pavithra’s day starts at 6am with a cup of coffee she brews herself. While her family is sound asleep, she quietly goes about her routine household chores even as she wages a battle against the clock. She then dons her pink ‘work’ sari and a face mask she had fashioned from a grocery bag and heads out to work by 7.30am.

In a span of just 12 days, tragedy struck the Mohapatra family here, known for stone sculpting, thrice – while noted sculptor and Rajya Sabha MP Raghunath Mohapatra died of Covid infection on May 9, the virus killed his eldest son on Thursday, within 24 hours of snuffing the life out of his second son who passed away on Wednesday.