According to official data, 203 new cases were added to the active case count. The cumulative COVID-19 deaths in the country since January this year have increased to 32.
Experts accuse the country of under-reporting cases as Twitter sees satellite images and videos from China of crowded crematoriums and bodies being burnt on the streets.
The Shanghai Deji Hospital estimates 5.43 million positive Covid cases in the city and 12.5 million will get infected in China's main commercial hub by the end of the year.
Civil Registration System data implies India didn't see sharp spike in the number of deaths registered in 2020 compared to 2019. But no estimate given for level of death registration.
Global deaths due to Covid could be as high as 1.82 crore, about three times the official figures, according to analysis of excess deaths by University of Washington researchers.
Trailing behind the US and Brazil, the country took 217 days to reach 5 lakh deaths from 4 lakh recorded on July last year, the longest time taken to record 1 lakh fatalities.
Study by IIM-Ahmedabad & University of Toronto used independent survey of 1.4 lakh individuals, as well as government data, for the study, published in 'Science' Thursday.
This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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