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Friday, October 4, 2024
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Topic: COVID-19

Mamata Banerjee’s brother Ashim dies after battling Covid-19 for a month

The West Bengal chief minister's brother died at a hospital in Kolkata this morning, said family members. He had tested positive for Covid-19 nearly a month ago and was admitted since then.

India can get out of this Covid ‘mess’ but it will mean setting aside differences first

From the government and opposition to the public, Aakaash Singh holds everyone accountable for the surge in cases.

RECOVERY trial finds plasma doesn’t improve survival in hospitalised Covid patients: Lancet

The study cautions against the use of plasma therapy due to insufficient evidence on its efficacy.

Delhi Police registers 17 FIRs, arrests 15 people for posters critical of PM Modi

Giving details, police said three FIRs were registered in northeast Delhi and two persons were arrested from the area.

Covid-positive and pregnant? The risk to your child is low

Babies born to Covid-positive women do not need to be separated from their mothers at birth.

PM Modi chairs high-level meeting on India’s Covid-19 situation, vaccination drive

The prime minister has been holding regular review meetings on the pandemic situation. The second wave of surge in infections started from March.

India records 3.26 lakh new Covid-19 cases, 3,890 deaths

The active cases have reduced to 36,73,802 and comprise 15.07 per cent of the total infections, according to Union health ministry data.

Total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses given in India crosses 18 crore

According to the health ministry, there have been over 42 lakh beneficiaries in the age group of 18-44 years since the country's third phase of the vaccination drive began.

Indian Americans on high alert for news from families about Covid. And then our call came

Never had we imagined moving to the US would include this experience—a desperate son watching his PPE-clad mother and sister light the pyre of his father in India.

West Bengal registers highest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases, death toll rises to 12,993

The death toll increased after 136 more people, including five eminent doctors, succumbed to the infection. According to the health bulletin, total number of cases are over 10.9 lakh.

On Camera

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

India’s manufacturing workers saw prices rise faster than incomes even as their productivity fell

Latest Annual Survey of Industries 2022-23 shows large segments of India’s manufacturing workforce are employed in low-productivity work, value added per worker has contracted.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?