Bollywood producer Anil Suri, who had backed films like Raaj Kumar-Rekha starrer Karmayogi and Raaj Tilak, passed away due to coronavirus. He was 77.
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Five employees of the Union Health Ministry, including a director, an under-secretary have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last seven days, prompting the authorities to carry out a ‘major and comprehensive disinfection and sanitisation’ of office premises from 6-7 June.
Questioning the government’s lockdown strategy to counter COVID-19, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi compared India’s disease graph to other countries to say this is “what a failed lockdown looks like”.
India went past Italy to become the sixth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic with the country registering a record single-day spike of 9,887 cases which pushed the nationwide tally to 2,36,657.
The authors of the research linking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and increased death risk during COVID-19 treatment have retracted The Lancet study they published as they were unable to share the full data set for an independent peer review.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea filed by the CBI seeking review of its verdict granting bail to senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media corruption case.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday praised an RPF constable who ran behind a moving train to deliver a milk packet for a four-month-old baby.
A âdraconianâ but porous lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19 has ended up âflattening the wrong curveâ and left the economy with the âworst of both worldsâ, industrialist Rajiv Bajaj said on Thursday, in a severe criticism of the Centreâs handling of the pandemic.
Significant headway has been made in the investigation into the recent gory death of a pregnant wild elephant in a suspected man-animal conflict in a forest area in Palakkad district in Kerala, the Forest department said.