Covid-19: Record Daily Jump Of 83,883 In Infections
India reported another record daily jump of 83,883 coronavirus infections on Thursday, taking its tally to 3.85 million, just 100,000...
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India’s Covid-19 Case Tally Nears 3.8 Mn As Country Reopens
India’s novel coronavirus infections rose to almost 3.8 million on Wednesday, as states continued to relax rules on movement despite...
India Reports Record Rise In Coronavirus Cases
India reported a record daily jump in the number of novel coronavirus cases on Friday as Chennai locked down following...
COVID-19: Criticism Mounts As Delhi Hospital Beds Run Out
India’s capital is fast running out of hospital beds amid a surge in coronavirus cases and is struggling to contain...
India Records Biggest Single-Day Jump In Covid-19 Cases
India reported its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases on Saturday, adding 11,458 confirmed infections and taking its total count...
Mumbai Braces For Monsoon Diseases Amid Pandemic
For doctors and healthcare workers in India’s financial capital Mumbai who are grappling with surging coronavirus infections, the onset of...
Delhi Reserves Hospital Beds For Residents As Virus Cases Surge
The city of New Delhi on Sunday ordered many of its hospital beds to be reserved solely for residents of...
Yamuna Regains Sparkle As Lockdown Banishes Waste
The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna river flowing through New Delhi, India’s capital, residents say, after decades of filthy...
Doctors Go Online To Treat Patients Amid Covid-19 Outbreak
As India’s health system grapples with the coronavirus, doctors are increasingly going online to consult with patients suffering less critical...
Inside A COVID-19 Hospital, Doctors See No End In Sight
It was barely noon on Thursday when the metal doors of the mortuary at a hospital in south New Delhi...
Indian Economy Slows Rapidly In March Quarter
Gross domestic product data out later on Friday is expected to show India’s economy grew at its slowest pace in...
Biggest 24-Hour Rise In Virus Cases As Lockdown Eases
India registered some 6,000 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Friday, the country’s biggest jump in 24 hours, as...
Outbreak At Factory Shows Challenges Of Easing Lockdown
Chinese smartphone maker OPPO suspended operations at a recently re-opened plant in India after workers tested positive for the coronavirus,...
Why India’s Migrant Labourers Give Me Hope
by ANONYMOUS I have lived in India for the past five years. When I left my country to work in...
India To Privatise State-Run Companies & Halt Fresh Insolvencies
India said on Sunday it would privatise state-run companies in non-strategic sectors and stop fresh insolvency cases for a year,...
India Extends Lockdown To May 31, To Relax Rules In Some Areas
India on Sunday extended a nationwide lockdown to May 31, as cases exceeded 90,000 and further clashes erupted between police...
Clogged Cooling System Likely Cause Of Gas Leak In AP: Investigators
A clogged cooling system was the likely cause of a temperature surge in a storage tank which led to a...
Huge Aid Package For Covid-19-Hit Indian Economy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would provide 20 trillion rupees ($266 billion) in fiscal and monetary...
Guidelines Issued For Post-Lockdown Factory Restarts
India has issued guidelines to ensure the safe restart of manufacturing facilities, after a weeks’ long nationwide lockdown aimed at...
Migrant Workers In Gujarat Clash With Authorities
Hundreds of migrant workers in Gujarat have clashed for a second day with authorities, hurling stones at police personnel trying...
No Warning, No Escape As Deadly Gas Swept Through AP Village
When gas began leaking from a nearby chemical factory and drifting towards his house in southern India, there were no...
Train Kills 14 Workers Laid Off In Covid-19 Lockdown
A train killed 14 migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the track on Friday while they were heading back...
As Families Bury Covid-19 Victims, A Gravedigger Watches On
Belonging to the third generation in a family of Indian cemetery workers, Mohammad Shameem had little other choice in life...
Petrol, Diesel Become More Expensive
The government late on Tuesday increased its taxes and duties on petrol and diesel instead of passing on the benefit...
70% ‘Corona Tax’ On Alcohol To Deter Large Crowds
Officials in capital New Delhi imposed a special tax of 70% on retail liquor purchases from Tuesday, to deter large...
