
Railways has transported more medical oxygen to Karnataka as it faces growing demand amid the Covid surge, an official said on Friday. The 6th Oxygen Express, carrying 73 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen, arrived at the inland container depot near Whitefield station from Jamnagar (Gujarat), a South...

With 52,581 patients discharged in a day, recoveries outnumbered 32,218 new Covid cases in Karnataka, while 353 succumbed to the infection across the state, said the state health bulletin on Friday. "Recoveries shot up to 18,29,276 till date, with 52,581 discharged in the day,...

Following a dip in the number of Covid-19 cases in Gurugram, the number of containment zones in the district has come down from 165 on May 13 to 107 now. According to a revised order on containment zones issued by the Gurugram administration on Friday, 107 areas under 21 health centres in the district are ...

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 165.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.43 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

Commonwealth health ministers, led by India, have called for swift and equal access to Covid-19 vaccines for everyone around the world....

Mumbai Police has lodged an FIR invoking charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the master of the Barge Papaa-305 and others in connection with the vessel tragedy in the Arabian Sea which left at least 60 dead and many more missing, officials said on Friday....

With 2,57,299 fresh cases of Covid-19, India on Saturday witnessed the lowest rise in infection since April 21, even as 4,194 people died due to the pandemic in last 24 hours, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry....

People are bidding as high as $2.8 million for a 10-minute experience on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's aerospace company Blue Origin's space tourism mission New Shepard, the media reporte...

The coronavirus pandemic claimed more than 3 million excess deaths, or 1.2 million more than officially reported, in the year 2020, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation on Friday....

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said as daily Covid cases are coming down, it has been decided to lift the 'triple lockdown' imposed in four districts, save from Malappuram, but the state-wide lockdown has been extended till May 30. ...