Home » Nation » Current Affairs

Current Affairs - Page 1770

A file photo of the doctors from Osmania General Hospital who were vaccinated ( Image Source: DC Image)

AP to get 4,500 house surgeons for Covid duty

There are 30 government and private medical colleges in the state with an intake of 4,660 students

23 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

7 teachers at OU, JNTU die of COVID, work from home still not an...

Faculty members working in the colleges and autonomous college, especially in the varsity, are not being given holidays

22 April 2021 11:54 PM IST

Workers sort medical oxygen cylinders meant for Covid-19 patients, before dispatching them to hospitals, amid surge in coronavirus cases, at BMTC bus stand in Bengaluru, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (PTI)

Karnataka asks Centre for 1,500 tonnes of oxygen, one lakh vials of...

On Wednesday, the state reported 23,558 fresh COVID cases and 116 deaths while the active cases in the state has gone up...

22 April 2021 12:32 PM IST

A health worker collects swab sample from a person for COVID-19 test, near Kashmere Gate in New Delhi. (PTI)

Over 3.14L new COVID-19 cases in India, world's biggest single-day...

The death toll increased to 1,84,657 with a record 2,104 new fatalities

22 April 2021 12:18 PM IST

Sitaram Yechury, CPIM general secretary (PTI file photo)

Sitaram Yechury's son dies of COVID-19 in Gurgaon hospital

The CPI(M) Politburo issued a statement announcing the death and offering its condolences to the family

22 April 2021 12:04 PM IST

A health worker takes a mouth swab sample of a woman to test for COVID-19 at a hospital in Hyderabad, India. (AP)

Telangana reports 23 COVID-19 deaths, highest ever tally in a single...

5,567 fresh COVID-19 cases were recorded on Wednesday, pushing the tally to over 3.73 lakh, while the total death toll...

22 April 2021 11:58 AM IST

Swab testing being done for police Personnel at ulsooor gate police station following rise in Covid cases In Bengaluru on Monday. Photo Satish B

Andhra Pradesh nears 10,000-mark in Covid cases, 38 deaths

For the first time, all 13 districts recorded over 100 infections on the daily count Wednesday

22 April 2021 8:00 AM IST

India now has the worlds fastest-growing Covid-19 caseload, adding more than 250,000 new infections every day for the past week or so. (Photo: PTI)

One Covid death nearly every hour in Telangana

One out of every 19 people tested on April 20, ended being Covid-19 positive in the state, while it was one out of 33...

22 April 2021 12:05 AM IST

KCR is learnt to have taken this decision ostensibly not to bank on any sympathy factor, which failed to work in the Dubbak Assembly by-election last December. (Photo: Twitter @TelanganaCMO)

New pay scale for employees promised by KCR delayed

It is likely that the employees have to wait till June 1 to get the new pay scales along with the April arrears

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

With more and more of the cases and people lining up for Rt-PCR tests, the system is now overwhelmed. The health department said on Tuesday evening that 6,242 test results were pending in the state. (Photo: DC)

Chaotic conditions at hospitals and testing centres in Telangana

Many who lined up in hundreds at the Covid-19 testing centres were sent away as the centers ran out of test kits

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A woman cries after her husband died of a leakage in the oxygen plant of a hospital in Nashik. (Photo: AP)

24 Covid patients die after oxygen tank leak in Nashik hospital

Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray announced Rs 5 lakh compensation each to the heirs of the deceased

22 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A medical worker inoculates a policeman with a Covishield Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination camp, in Chennai. (AFP)

Covishield to cost Rs 400 a dose for states, Rs 600 for private...

SII will serve 50% of the total production to the GoI vaccination program, and remaining will be for State governments...

21 April 2021 1:55 PM IST