A 150-bed Covid care centre with oxygen supply was opened at the Bengaluru airport on the city's northern outskirts to treat asymptomatic patients with mild hypoxia, said the operator on Wednesday. ....

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday reviewed the public health response to Covid-19 and progress of vaccination with West Bengal and the eight northeastern states, and expressed concern about the situation there. ....

Maharashtra's new Covid-19 infections suddenly shot above 30,00 level, but fatalities decreased while the state death toll crossed the 84,000 mark, health officials said on Wednesday. ....

In a gruesome tragedy, at least 22 persons on board the drifting Barge Papaa-305 met a watery end in the stormy Arabian Sea in the aftermath of the Cyclone Tauktae, officials said here on Wednesday. ....

A day after Rajiv Pratap Rudy, the BJP MP from Saran held a media conference in Delhi, the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) claimed that it (the presser) was his confession pertaining to ambulance theft. The Bihar government should register an FIR and arrest him. ....

The city has reported first suspected death due to black fungus infection (Mucormycosis). ....

In a dramatic turn of events, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Law Minister Moloy Ghatak and MP Kalyan Banerjee have been made parties in the petition submitted by CBI seeking transfer of the Narada bribe case to any other state. ....

India has set another landmark by conducting highest ever -- 20 lakh tests in a single day -- a global record, Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. ....

Hours after India recorded highest death due to Covid in a single day, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi slammed the government saying vaccines are decreasing while deaths are increasing. He said, the government's policy is to divert attention and spread lies. ....

A fast track court in Mapusa town on Wednesday deferred its judgement in the rape case filed against former Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal to May 21, even as the North Goa town has been without electricity for the third day running, following heavy rain and stormy winds in the wake of the Cyclone Tauktae. ....

The Congress on Wednesday once again slammed the BJP over the alleged tool kit shared by BJP National Spokersperson Sambit Patra on the central vista project of the government and said that he should use his degree to save the lives of the people instead of indulging in theatrics. ....

Shri Prahlad Singh Patel highlights importance of museums and cultural spaces in bringing our cultural wealth to the masses on the occasion of International Museum Day 2021 today ....

A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said a new strain of COVID-19, which is suspected to affect more children, had been detected in Singapore, external affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said his remarks were "irresponsible" and that the Delhi CM did not speak for India. ....

The Indian Navy (IN) and Indian Coast Guard (ICG) continued their search for missing 89 personnel from a barge with 273 people which went adrift and later sank near the Bombay High Fields unable to withstand the fury of Cyclone Tauktae, officials said here on Wednesday. ....

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has now issued fresh directives, allowing a maximum of 25 people to take part in weddings and other functions in view of the Covid pandemic. ....

India broke its own previous record of Covid deaths in 24 hours after the the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday said the nation recorded 4,529 deaths -- the highest number of fatalities from Covid infection. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a day-long visit to his home state Gujarat and the Union Territory of Diu to take stock of the situation after the devastation caused by severe cyclonic storm 'Tauktae'. ....

Clinical trials to test Covaxin vaccine's efficacy in children between two to 18 years of age will begin in 10-12 days, top officials said on Tuesday. ....

In one of the biggest search and rescue operations in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Navy (IN) and Indian Coast Guard (ICG) rescued 314 people stranded and struggling for survival on two barges that were engulfed by Cyclone Tauktae, officials said here on Tuesday. ....

Day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi released Rs 2,000 each to 9.50 crore farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sanman Nidhi Scheme on May 14, the peasantry was hit by an unexpected bolt from the blue. ....