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NEW DELHI: With an increase of 86,821 new cases and 1,181 deaths reported in the past 24 hours, India’s Covid-19 count passed the 63 lakh mark on Thursday, according to the Union Ministry of Health. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), the count is 63,12,585 in …

NEW DELHI: Researchers, including those from the government of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, have conducted one of the largest analyzes of Covid-19 epidemiology to date and have found that both cases and deaths due to the disease have been concentrated more in the 40-69 age group in India than …

NEW DELHI: In search of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for US President Donald Trump’s statements that question the credibility of India’s Covid figures, Congressional Leader P Chidambaram asked if the Prime Minister will hold another ‘Namaste Trump’ rally to honor his “dear friend”. During the first presidential debate before the …

Rajasthan Royals player Robin Uthappa appears to have had a moment of mental fade during Steve Smith’s team’s clash against Kolkata Knight Riders in Dubai on Wednesday. Video of Uthappa allegedly applying saliva to the ball after he released KKR’s Sunil Narine on the fifth ball of the third over …

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a PIL presented by retired bureaucrats alleging serious mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country by the government. Lawyer Prashant Bhushan told a bank headed by Judge LN Rao that on February 4, the Ministry of the Interior (MHA) had issued …

NEW DELHI: Active cases of Covid-19 rose in India on Wednesday after recording a decline for two days in a row, even as September turned out to be the worst period for the country during the pandemic, which represents the highest number of deaths in any month. With 1,173 recent …

NEW DELHI: The central government said Wednesday that it will borrow ₹4.34 trillion in the second half of the fiscal year, sticking to its ₹Debt plan of 12 trillion for the whole year as decided in May. The Secretary of Economic Affairs, Tarun Bajaj, in a briefing, said that the …

WASHINGTON: The United States embarrassed the world for nearly 100 minutes with a “presidential debate” that was akin to a mud fight. Current President Donald Trump stomped on Democratic challenger Joe Biden with frequent and intimidating interruptions that often left the latter baffled. But Trump was not necessarily the winner; …

Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Institute that produced the Sputnik V vaccine, told Reuters that the pace of its development was necessary in the “wartime” conditions of a pandemic, but that no corners were being cut. Russia has moved forward with its potential COVID-19 vaccine at full speed with …

NEW DELHI: The drop in the national R-value, which indicates the likely number of people a Covid-positive person can infect, down from 1 in the past week in five high-burden states helped moderate the curve of active infections from India, but the durability of gains depends on continued progress in …