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French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he speaks to the press with the Estonian prime minister following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on October 28, 2020. (AFP)

COVID-19: France to send oxygen generators, containers to India

Several other countries as well as the WHO and the EU have also announced urgent medical assistance to India

27 April 2021 2:41 PM IST

Why is the Narendra Modi government sending letters to the states that they should have strict enforcement of crowd control when Mr Modi is himself holding giant rallies. (PTI)

Plea in Delhi HC for action against political leaders for violating...

The plea also sought directions to 'ensure compulsory home quarantine of persons who campaigned in the last one week of...

27 April 2021 2:11 PM IST

A member of medical staff inspects the intensive care unit (ICU), which is being prepared for the COVID-19 coronavirus patients, at The Telangana Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (TIMS) at Gachibowli. (AFP FIle)

Covid-19 patients exploited at Telangana's TIMS Hospital

Families say the housekeeping staff and nurses demand money for injections, medicines and other basic duties, citing...

27 April 2021 12:05 PM IST

The first Oxygen Express train for Delhi carrying around 70 tonnes of the life-saving gas reaches Delhi Cantt, Tuesday early morning, April 27, 2021. (PTI/Vijay Verma)

Oxygen Express with 70 tonnes of oxygen reaches Delhi

This oxygen will now be disbursed by the Delhi government to various hospitals, officials said

27 April 2021 9:18 AM IST

Foreign ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi tweeted photos of the equipment being unloaded from a German Lufthansa aircraft in New Delhi. (Image credit: Twitter/@MEAIndia)

First shipment of UK COVID-19 medical aid arrives in India: Govt

Britain, one of several countries to announce sending help as India's health care system buckles under a huge surge in...

27 April 2021 9:09 AM IST

Jagan conducted a review meeting on cooperative sector reforms, multi-purposes centres and milk scheme in his camp office at Tadepalli on Wednesday. (Photo: Twitter@AndhraPradeshCM)

AP villages to get internet access by 2023: Jagan

The Chief Minister called for setting up YSR Village Digital Libraries at village secretariats

27 April 2021 12:46 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will stop running buses towards Bengaluru and also other districts like Bellary, Raichur, Bidar and Tumkur in Karnataka from Tuesday. (Photo: DC)

Karnataka lockdown: AP & TS stop buses

District administrations along the border in AP were alerted over the possible rise of positive cases in villages

27 April 2021 12:46 AM IST

School authorities said they have allotted vacant classrooms to the infected students as students of all other classes were already gone home. (Representational Photo: DC)

14 girl students of Balayogi Gurukul School in Nellore district...

School authorities organised Covid tests for 73 students of Class 10 after noticing the symptoms of Covid-19 among some...

27 April 2021 12:46 AM IST

The Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu (PTI)

Tamil Nadu lets Sterlite to open unit to make oxygen

Sterlite had promised to provide the oxygen produced in the plant free of cost to hospitals in Tamil Nadu

27 April 2021 12:27 AM IST

A bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, hearing a petition on whether there were adequate Covid safety procedures in place during vote counting at the Karur constituency, went so far as to say, Election Commission officers should be booked on murder charges probably. (PTI Image)

Election Commission should be charged with murder: Madras HC

HC has asked for a blueprint on how safety norms will be followed on counting day, mentioning that it could even stop...

27 April 2021 12:21 AM IST

A health worker collects swab samples of passengers for COVID-19 test at Dadar Railway platform, in Mumbai. (PTI)

AP government staff seeks to work from home due to Covid-19

In AP Secretariat, several employees have been infected with Covid-19 and so far five of them breathed their last

27 April 2021 12:08 AM IST

The risk of death due to coronavirus infection is 17 times higher in doctors and 15 times more in healthcare workers, according to the Indian Medical Association. (AFP)

What it is like to be inside a Covid-19 ICU ward as a doctor

The staff in attendance is practising a new regimen of long shifts on slim meals and controlled fluid intake

26 April 2021 1:58 AM IST