India

The farmers have added multivitamin and zinc tablets as supplements to improve their immunity, but are resolved not to yield ground until their demands are met.

India has been badly hit by the second wave of coronavirus infections and hospitals in several states are reeling under shortage of health workers, vaccines, oxygen, drugs and beds.

Chief Minister Amarinder Singh video-called 10-year-old Vansh Singh and ensured free education for him and promised a grant of Rs 2 lakhs for the family.

The national capital also the lowest number of Coronavirus deaths since April 21 with 273 fatalities. Positivity rate falls to 21.67 per cent.

According to the Union Health Ministry data released India recorded 4,03,738 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the country's cumulative tally to 2,22,96,414, while the death toll climbed to 2,42,362 with 4,092 daily deaths.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,83,17,404 with 3,86,444 patients recovering in a day, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.09 per cent.

Modi has been interacting with various chief ministers over telephone for the last couple of days to take stock of the pandemic situation in their states.

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Notably, this is the fourth time in the last 5 days that Delhi logged in less than 20,000 Covid active cases.

Speaking at the meeting, Stalin said that the Covid-19 infection rate has come down but still not under control.

All personnel on board have been accounted for and no major damage has been reported.

The passenger trains on Bandra, Bhusaval, Ahmedabad, Gandhidham, Jodhpur among other stations have been cancelled till further orders

A wanted criminal, who fled from custody last month and carried a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, was arrested here on Friday after an encounter with police, officials said. The encounter took place in Madhotanda forest area, they said.

elhi got just 577 metric tonnes of oxygen on May 6, which is 59 per cent of the total requirement of 976 MT, AAP leader Raghav Chadha said on Friday.

The situation is being monitored and the treatment for mucormycosis is available, he said.

Rajkumar Pal said winning a gold medal at Tokyo Olympics is the ultimate goal for the Indian men's hockey team and he and his teammates are working relentlessly towards ending the 41-year-old drought.