Tag Archives: COVID-19

To boost consumer spending during the holiday season, the Delhi government announced on Thursday that its employees can take the cash equivalent of the Leave Travel Grant (LTC) if they opt for it. “Taking into account the difficulties of the employees due to the COVID pandemic and the shutdown, the …

Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said Thursday that as soon as the vaccine for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is ready, it will be given to the people of the state for free. The announcement comes on a day when Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while publishing the Bharatiya Janata …

Election rallies rarely follow social distancing, the poll panel noted. New Delhi: The Electoral Commission has said that political parties have been putting candidates and the general public at risk of COVID-19 infection by not following the guidelines issued by it. The voting panel had issued these rules in August, …

Actor Hrithik Roshan’s mother, Pinkie Roshan, has confirmed that she contracted the coronavirus virus some time ago and is in isolation. In an interview, she said that she is asymptomatic. It seems that the Roshan family that had been together during the lockdown period are now in different locations. While …

Bihar Chief Deputy Minister Sushil Kumar Modi said today that he has tested positive for coronavirus infection. The deputy prime minister posted on Twitter that all parameters are normal and that he suffered from a mild fever for the past two days. “Admitted to AIIMS Patna for better follow-up, CT …

A sarcastic editorial in Shiv Sena’s spokesman, Saamana, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech to the nation on Tuesday was the best in the past seven to eight months. He said the prime minister spoke as a “concerned guardian” and that the speech was on a “spiritual level.” Furthermore, he …

Obama’s appearance filled a void left by Biden, who has been staying home in Delaware since Monday for meetings and preparations ahead of his Thursday debate with Trump in Nashville, Tennessee. The drive-in was held in the parking lot of Citizens Bank Park, the ballpark in Philadelphia, the city skyline …

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) poll manifesto for Bihar’s upcoming assembly elections on Thursday. He said that once a vaccine to treat the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is available for large-scale production, it will be provided free of charge to everyone in Bihar. “As vaccine candidates …

In this illustration, taken on September 9, 2020, a test tube labeled with the vaccine is seen in front of the AstraZeneca logo. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration The Federal University of Sao Paulo, which is helping coordinate phase 3 clinical trials in Brazil, said separately that the volunteer …

Coronavirus: India is the country with the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. New Delhi: India’s coronavirus count has touched 77.06 with a jump of 55,839 cases in the past 24 hours, government data shows. 702 deaths in the past 24 hours have brought the total death …