Jitin Prasada said if there was one party in the country that talks in national interest then it is the BJP. Congress leader and former Union minister Jitin Prasada, who joined the BJP on Wednesday, has said there was no point being in a party “if you cannot help the people”. Jitin Prasada joined the…
Waterlogging has been reported at several places in Mumbai after heavy rain lashed the city on Wednesday morning. Mumbai local train services between Kurla and CSMT have also been halted. The south-west monsoon arrived in Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday, the IMD announced as heavy rains lashed the…
Dr Aruna Khilanani was invited by Yale University’s School of Medicine to give a talk at a weekly forum on mental health. The audio of her address, released recently, has sparked outrage online over a digression in which she describes in graphic, expletive-laden detail her fantasies of shooting white people dead. The…
Mahatma Gandhi’s great-granddaughter, Ashish Lata Ramgobin has been sentenced to seven years in prison in a six-million rand (Rs 3.22 crore) fraud and forgery case. Ashish Lata Ramgobin, the 56-year-old great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, has been jailed for seven years in a six-million rand (Rs 3.22 crore)…
What is constant is that epidemiological triad of agent, host and environment. The interaction between these three is important in understanding how this disease spreads faster. It was 1918 when the Liberty Loan Parade was organised in Philadelphia to economically support the soldiers who fought in World War I. It was…
The Opposition has claimed that its concerted pressure for centralised procurement of vaccines and the Supreme Court’s rap on the Centre’s knuckles was behind the change in policy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back in the hot seat to drive India’s Covid-19 vaccination efforts, eight weeks after the…
In Mumbai, the petrol price changed to Rs 101.52 per litre on Monday. The cost of diesel advanced to Rs 93.58 a litre. The oil marketing companies (OMCs) hiked the prices of petrol and diesel by 27-28 paise per litre on Monday. The fuel rates were also hiked on Sunday. Accordingly, the price of petrol and diesel…
“Our first target is to produce 300 MT of oxygen for us to become self-reliant even when the number of daily patients go past the 14,000-mark,” Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said. The Gujarat government has initiated the process to set up more than 75 oxygen plants to produce additional 300 MT of the…
All private hospitals and nursing homes have been told not to administer Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine to those who are coming in for their first jab. Covaxin in Delhi will be administered only to those in the 18-44 age group who need the second dose, the Delhi government said in a statement on Sunday. All…
Live Updates: Experts have warned that a possible third wave can bring as much devastation as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic if enough people are not vaccinated against the virus. The screening of children for clinical trials of Covaxin will start at AIIMS in Delhi soon, days after similar trials started…