The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,435 and the number of cases to 1,12,359 in the country today, registering an increase of 132 deaths and 5,609 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Author: PTI
Cycling almost 1,200 km with a debilitated person riding pillion could be a daunting task even for professional athletes, leave alone an ordinary teenager and that too amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this case, the heavily-stacked odds against Bihar girl Jyoti Kumari were no match for her grit.
Two BSF personnel were killed when militants fired upon them in Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said.
About 6.39 per cent of the total number of active Covid-19 cases in the country needed hospital support, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
War of words between Congress and the Uttar Pradesh government is esclating. The Yogi Adithyanath government on Tuesday asked Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to provide buses for carrying migrants to the district magistrates of Ghaziabad and Noida.
Six people were killed and one was injured when a pickup van was hit by a speeding truck at the Bakewar vegetable market here, police said today.
The Pakistan Army today opened fire and heavily shelled forward areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in two sectors of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, drawing retaliation from the Indian Army, a defence spokesperson said.
Cyclone ‘Amphan’ lay centred about 240 km south of Digha in West Bengal on today morning as an extremely severe cyclonic storm, the Met department said here.
Invasive technique should not be adopted for forensic autopsy in COVID-19 death cases as mortuary staff are exposed to potentially dangerous health risks due to organ fluids and secretions even after taking the highest precautions, the ICMR has said.