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PM lauds doctors’ role, discusses vaccine plan and black fungus

May 18, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with doctors from across the country about their experiences and also to take their suggestions on fighting Covid-19, vaccination exercise and also black fungus. He spoke to doctors from various regions, including the Northeast, and Jammu and Kashmir, through video-conferencing. The Prime Minister...

BLEEDING, CLOTTING EVENTS FOLLOWING VACCINATION ‘MINUSCULE’: GOVT REPORT

May 18, 2021

The number of bleeding and clotting events following a Covid vaccine jab in India is “miniscule”, a panel on National Adverse Event Following Immunisation (AEFI) told the Union Health Ministry on Monday. The panel said it had studied 498 (of 700) “serious and severe events” and found that 26 had...

INDIA REPORTS DIP IN INFECTIONS BUT NOT OUT OF THE COVID WOODS YET

May 18, 2021

India’s daily spike of coronavirus cases remained below the 3 lakh mark for the first time in nearly 26 days as only 2,81,386 fresh infections were recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data on Monday. Out of the 2,81,386 new cases registered in 24...

JAIPUR’S MATHURADAS MATHUR CHARITABLE TRUST DONATES OXYGEN CONCENTRATORS TO GURDWARA

May 17, 2021

The Managing Trustee of Mathuradas Mathur Charitable Trust, Vishal Mathur, observed the auspicious day of Avtar Divas by donating oxygen concentrators to Shri Gurdwara Sahab in Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, amid the Covid-19 crisis. “Our Sikh brothers and sisters always come first to serve the people of India whenever there is...

HISAR VARSITY SENDS MEDICINES TO FIVE VILLAGES TO FIGHT COVID

May 17, 2021

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar donated medicines for Covid to five villages, as part of its initiative to help during the pandemic period. The university has adopted five villages, namely Bahbalpur, Satrod Kala, Mirzapur, Nangthala and Deva. Vice Chancellor Prof. Tankeshwar Kumar said that it is very...

SITHARAMAN’S ‘ONCE-IN-A-CENTURY’ BUDGET FACES BIG CORONA ROADBLOCKS

May 17, 2021

The Union Budget was hailed as “once-in-a-century” budget when introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in February this year, but the second wave of Covid-19 threatens to derail the move, if a Reuters report is to be believed. “The budget aimed to revive Asia’s third-largest economy via investing in infrastructure...

Lockdown extended by another week as Delhi records 6,456 new Covid cases

May 17, 2021

Lockdown in Delhi has been extended by another week even as the national capital sees a decline in the Covid-19 cases for the past few days. The lockdown in Delhi has been extended till May 24, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday. “We are extending the lockdown by...

CENTRE ISSUES GUIDELINES AS COVID HITS HINTERLAND

May 17, 2021

Amid the reports of a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases in rural India, with the country reporting 311,170 new infections and 362,437 recoveries in the last 24 hours, the Centre on Sunday issued new guidelines for containment of the coronavirus. The new SOP advised that peri-urban and rural areas plan...

AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT IN MALDIVES TO LAND BACK HOME ON MONDAY

May 17, 2021

Thirty-eight members of the Australian contingent stranded in the Maldives will be reaching back home on Monday. The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season was postponed on May 4 due to a rising number of Covid-19 cases and the entire Australian contingent had travelled to the Maldives due to a...

JOFRA ARCHER’S PARTICIPATION IN NZ TEST SERIES IN DOUBT AFTER ELBOW INJURY RESURFACES

May 17, 2021

Sussex coach Ian Salisbury said that pacer Jofra Archer’s sore elbow stopped the England pacer from bowling against Kent in the County Championship match on Saturday. Archer made a comeback on Thursday as he played his first-class match for Sussex since September 2018. However, the England pacer didn’t bowl in...

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