Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Congress defeated BJP in 10 local body p | Bengaluru, April 30 (TIWN) The opposition Congress in Karnataka has trounced the ruling BJP by winning 120 out of the 263 wards in 10 local bodies across eight districts that went to the polls on April 27. | 30-Apr-2021 |
| 'Clampdown on citizen seeking COVID-19 h | NEW DELHI, April 30 (TIWN): The Supreme Court on Friday said there should not be any clampdown on citizens communicating their grievances related to COVID-19 on social media. The bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud is hearing a suo motu case on issues related to the oxygen supply, drug supply, and vaccine policy in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. | 30-Apr-2021 |
| Park turned into cremation ground in Del | AGARTALA, April 30 (TIWN): In a move that reflects the severity of the COVID-19 crisis in Delhi, a public park has been converted into a cremation ground in south-east Delhi. Pyres are likely to start burning at the ground from Monday as bodies pile up across the city and designated crematoriums struggle to keep pace. | 30-Apr-2021 |
| Indian famous TV journalist Rohit Sardan | NEW DELHI, April 30 (TIWN): TV journalist and anchor Rohit Sardana on Friday succumbed to Covid infection. | 30-Apr-2021 |
| West Bengal Exit Poll results: TMC walks | West Bengal exit polls 2021 highlights, April 30 (TIWN): An all out high-octane campaign by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may fail to fetch power for it in Bengal, exit polls showed. The ruling TMC, led by Mamata Banerjee may grab 152-64 seats, according to ABP-Cvoter survey. According to a poll of polls by NDTV, TMC is winning 156 seats and the BJP will be limited to 121 seats in the Assembly of 291 seats. | 30-Apr-2021 |
| Hat-trick for Mamata in Bengal, indicate | New Delhi, April 29 (TIWN) Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is set to retain power in West Bengal, all exit polls, except two, indicated after the month-long, eight-phase Assembly polls ended on Thursday. | 29-Apr-2021 |
| BJP gaining votes across Bengal, shows e | New Delhi, April 29 (TIWN) The BJP may not form the government in West Bengal, but the party has made its presence felt by increasing its vote share across the state, according to the CVoter Exit Poll for Times Now/ABP News. | 29-Apr-2021 |
| India’s coronavirus infections cr | New Delhi, April 29 (TIWN) Airtel Africa plc has announced Olusegun Ogunsanya as its next MD and CEO. | 29-Apr-2021 |
| 577 teachers on panchayat poll duty died | Lucknow, April 29 (TIWN) The various teachers' unions in Uttar Pradesh have claimed that 577 teachers and support staff died while on panchayat poll duty in the state. | 29-Apr-2021 |
| Evening curfew imposed in Bihar 9 PM to | Patna, April 28 (TIWN) In the wake of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the state, the Bihar government on Wednesday refused to impose a complete lockdown in the state. | 28-Apr-2021 |
| Railways mobilises 22 more Covid care co | New Delhi, April 28 (TIWN) The Railways has mobilised 22 additional Covid care coaches for use in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra and 191 isolation coaches in use in different parts of India now. | 28-Apr-2021 |
| COVID-19, Assembly Polls: EC issues deta | Kolkata, April 28 (TIWN) Considering the alarming spike in the number of Covid cases in the country, the Election Commission of India has made it mandatory that no candidate/agent will be allowed inside the counting centres without undergoing RT-PCR/RAT test or without having taken two doses of vaccine against Covid-19. | 28-Apr-2021 |
| Earthquake with 6.4 magnitude jolts Nort | Guwahati, April 28 (TIWN): A major earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted Northeast India on Wednesday morning. The earthquake originated in Assam and tremors were felt across Assam, North Bengal and other parts of the Northeast. | 27-Apr-2021 |
| Covid spike on in Kerala with 32,819 new | Thiruvananthapuram, April 28 (TIWN) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said that the spread of Covid in the state is continuing with a high daily tally being reported. | 28-Apr-2021 |
| Maha Covid deaths touch new high of 895, | Mumbai, April 27 (TIWN) In another stunner, Maharashtra Covid-19 fatalities rose to a new peak on Tuesday with deaths crossing the 66,000 mark and case tally shooting past the 44 lakh level, health officials said here. | 27-Apr-2021 |
| Section 144 imposed in Haryana | Chandigarh, April 27 (TIWN) Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday said that prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC are to be imposed throughout the state. | 27-Apr-2021 |
| EC restricts movement of Trinamool leade | Kolkata, April 27 (TIWN) Anticipating violence, the Election Commission of India on Tuesday restricted the movement of Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal, the president of the party's Birbhum district unit. | 27-Apr-2021 |
| Delhi hospitals struggling amid rising C | New Delhi, April 27 (TIWN): The healthcare system in the national capital seems to be on the edge due to a massive increase in the number of patients following the second wave of Covid-19. | 26-Apr-2021 |
| Election Commission Singularly Responsib | CHENNAI, April 26 : The Madras High Court on Monday strongly pulled up the Election Commission of India for allowing political rallies even as the country is battling a deadly second wave of COVID-19. Madras HIgh Court Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee reprimanded the Election Commission up for failing to ensure COVID-19 norms were followed during rallies, remarking that Election Commission is “singularly responsible†for the second wave of COVID-19. | 26-Apr-2021 |
| Centre issues advisory to States on how | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) The Union Government has advised States and Union Territories (UTs) to take intensive actions in well defined Geographies (cities/districts/areas) with more than 10 per cent test positivity or 60 per cent bed occupancy. | 26-Apr-2021 |
| PM appeals to Bengal voters to cast vote | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged people of West Bengal to use their franchise for state assembly polls following all Covid protocols. | 25-Apr-2021 |
| Centre bans use of liquid oxygen for all | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) To ensure that there is no lack of oxygen in the Covid-19 hospitals across the country, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Sunday banned use of liquid oxygen for any non-medical purpose while directing its manufacturing units to maximise production and make it available to the government for medical purposes only. | 26-Apr-2021 |
| 551 Oxygen plants to be setup through PM | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) In line with Prime Minister's direction to boost availability of oxygen to hospitals, the PM CARES Fund has given in-principle approval for allocation of funds for installation of 551 dedicated Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen generation plants inside public health facilities in the country. | 26-Apr-2021 |
| Lockdown extended in Delhi till May 3 | New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday extended the lockdown in the national capital for one more week till May 3 amid the surge in the coronavirus cases. | 26-Apr-2021 |
| Highlights: West Bengal logs 14,281 fres | NEW DELHI, April 25 (TIWN): Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues to affect Indians as people cope with news of increasing deaths and rising numbers of infections in large parts of the nation. Major cities in India reel from crumbling hospital infrastructure as lack of medical oxygen and hospital beds drive families of those infected to despair. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held two review meetings with chief ministers of states which have been adversely affected in the second wave. He also held another virtual meeting with leading oxygen manufacturers to address the oxygen shortage in several cities. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Covid-19: Daily cases touch 3.5 lakh; 2, | NEW DELHI, April 25 (TIWN): There seems to be no respite for India as cases crossed 3 lakh for the fourth day in a row. For the fifth consecutive day, the country reported over 2,000 daily deaths. The case and death count for Saturday stood at 3.49 lakh and 2,760 in that order. The past 3 days alone saw over a million new cases and over 7,500 fresh deaths. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Gujarat reports record single-day spike | Gandhinagar, April 24 (TIWN) Shattering all previous records, Gujarat on Saturday reported a record single-day spike of 14,097 new Covid-19 cases, taking its overall tally to 4,81,737, while 152 deaths in the past 24 hours mounted its death toll 6,171. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Kejriwal writes to all States' CMs, urge | New Delhi, April 24 (TIWN) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday wrote to all the Chief Ministers, requesting them to provide spare oxygen to the national capital. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Union govt's procured vaccine to be give | New Delhi, April 24 (TIWN) A day after Chief Ministers raised about price uniformity of the vaccine to be administered from May 1, the health ministry has issued clarification on the issue. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Centre asks states to set up Panels ensu | NEW DELHI, April 24 (TIWN): Holding a meeting on Covid-19 situation with Chief Ministers of 11 states and Union Territories that reported the maximum number of cases recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged the states to set up a high-level coordination committee to carry oxygen to different hospitals of the state. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Out of 8.9 lakhs Global COVID cases, Ind | NEW DELHI, April 24 : Fresh cases once again touched a new peak of 3.46 lakh in a single day in India while deaths hit a grim new record of 2,600 on Friday. India has now reported close to a million new cases (9.94 lakh) in just three days, while Friday was also the fourth day in a row in which India reported more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours. | 24-Apr-2021 |
| Covid positive municipal poll candidate | Panaji, April 23 (TIWN) A municipal poll candidate in Goa backed by the ruling BJP, Arthur D'Silva, was booked on Friday by the state police under the Epidemic Act for campaigning and soliciting votes on polling day despite being Covid positive. | 23-Apr-2021 |
| Maha: Covid deaths rocket to record 773, | Mumbai, April 23 (TIWN) The Covid death toll in Maharashtra zoomed to a new high on Friday with 773 persons succumbing to the virus, while the state's caseload breached the 41 lakh-mark though the active case tally witnessed a marginal decline, health officials said. | 23-Apr-2021 |
| Covid-infected woman fails to get bed in | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) The situation in the national capital is constantly deteriorating due to the rapid surge in Covid-19 cases. Doctors are not admitting patients suffering from the virus due to lack of oxygen cylinders in the hospitals as well as due to the non-availability of beds. | 23-Apr-2021 |
| Vijayan again calls for free vaccines, K | Thiruvananthapuram, April 23 (TIWN) With the daily number of Covid positive cases reaching record highs in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday reiterated that vaccines should be provided free of cost by the Centre. | 23-Apr-2021 |
| 25 Covid patients die in Ganga Ram Hospi | New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) Around 25 Covid-19 patients have died in the last 24 hours in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, the hospital authority said here on Friday. | 23-Apr-2021 |
| State Govts free to purchase vaccines fr | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) The Centre on Thursday said that state governments are free to procure vaccine doses from the manufacturers as per the "Liberalised Pricing and Accelerated National Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy." | 22-Apr-2021 |
| Delhi still needs more oxygen, facing to | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) Amid sharp spike in Covid cases and high demand of Oxygen supply in the hospitals, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the capital is still facing oxygen crisis. | 22-Apr-2021 |
| India reports 3.14 lakh new Covid cases, | New Delhi, April 22 (TIWN) India reported 3,14,835 Covid-19 new cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike since the onset of the pandemic early last year, taking the overall infection tally to 1,59,30,965 on Thursday, according to data from the Union Health Ministry. | 22-Apr-2021 |
| 'Beg, borrow, steal, it’s your jo | NEW DELHI, April 22 (INDIAN EXPRESS): Underlining that it is the government’s responsibility to provide oxygen to medical facilities, the Delhi High Court came down strongly on the Centre on Wednesday, saying it seemed that “human lives are not that important.. for the stateâ€. | 22-Apr-2021 |
| Andhra DGP recommends 'Dasa Sutras' for | Amaravati, April 22 (TIWN) At a time when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is raging across the country, Andhra Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP), Gautam Sawang, on Wednesday directed all the district police officers to follow a 10-point guideline framework chalked out by a state police officer to avoid the virus. | 22-Apr-2021 |
| Tamil Nadu reported highest wastage of C | New Delhi, April 21 (TIWN) While several states claimed a shortage of Covid vaccine, it has been learnt that many states have wasted huge quantities of it. Tamil Nadu, Haryana and Punjab are three top states that reported the highest wastage of vaccines. While Kerala, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh were the states which reported zero wastage of Covid vaccine. | 21-Apr-2021 |
| Pregnant women to get admission without | Lucknow, April 21 (TIWN) In a major relief to pregnant women, the Lucknow District Magistrate Roshan Jacob has said that such women will be admitted in hospitals and given medical care without waiting for the mandatory Covid report. | 21-Apr-2021 |
| Covishield to be sold at Rs 400 to State | New Delhi, April 21 (TIWN) Covishield will be sold at Rs 400 per dose to the state government and Rs 600 to private hospitals, Serum Institute of India (SII) said on Wednesday. Covishield is known as AstraZeneca vaccine across the world. | 21-Apr-2021 |
| Oxygen crisis leaves Lucknow gasping for | Lucknow, April 21 (TIWN) The oxygen crisis in Lucknow is now leaving Covid patients gasping for breath, literally. | 21-Apr-2021 |
| EC to deploy 779 companies of central fo | Kolkata, April 21 (TIWN) The Election Commission has decided to deploy 779 companies of central forces for the sixth phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal in which voters of 43 constituencies across four districts will exercise their franchise on April 22. | 21-Apr-2021 |
| Govt ensuring oxygen for the needy: Modi | New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on the Covid situation on Tuesday evening, saying that the government is working to ensure oxygen supply for Covid patients who need it. | 20-Apr-2021 |
| SC to take up only urgent matters from A | New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that with effect from April 22, only urgent matters will be listed for hearing amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. | 20-Apr-2021 |
| Manmohan Singh's condition stable: Healt | New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in a stable condition at AIIMS. | 20-Apr-2021 |
| Put money into migrants accounts as they | New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has demanded that the government should transfer money into the accounts of the migrants who are compelled to go back home due to the lockdown and pandemic. | 20-Apr-2021 |