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Health staff conducting door-to-door survey in a village in Warangal. DC Image/Anudeep Ceremilla

Door-to-door fever survey confusing, scaring villagers in AP

Apart from not testing the person for Coronavirus, surveyors are also not carrying thermal scanners or oximeters to...

15 May 2021 11:58 PM IST

Police and rescue personnel evacuate a local resident through a flooded street in a coastal area after heavy rains under the influence of cyclone Tauktae in Kochi on May 14, 2021. (Arunchandra BOSE / AFP)

PM Modi to review preparations to deal with Cyclone Tauktae

Top officers from across government departments, including the National Disaster Management Authority, will attend the...

15 May 2021 11:10 AM IST

PM Modi was speaking at the release of the eighth installment of financial benefits under the PM-Kisan scheme via video conferencing. (Photo: PTI)

COVID-19 spreading to rural India: PM Modi

The Centre, he said, was working on a war footing to check the second wave of infections

15 May 2021 8:30 AM IST

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed concern over the grenade blast and asked DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta to deal with the incident sternly and nab the miscreants at the earliest. PTI

Grenade blast in Assam kills two

The incident comes days after Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's appeal to Ulfa-I commander-in-chief to shun the...

15 May 2021 8:07 AM IST

Relatives (in white) along with workers (in blue) wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) help to place the body of a person who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before cremation in a furnace at the Nigambodh Ghat cremation ground, in New Delhi. (AFP)

Over 2,000 bodies found in Ganga river

Health ministry is in close touch with UP, Bihar govt to ensure immediate check to stop the spread

15 May 2021 8:03 AM IST

Ambulances parked at JC road in Bengaluru during the ongoing total lockdown. PTI photo

Cross-border patients face harrowing time at Telangana borders

Scores of ambulances stranded at interstate borders of Telangana; online permission must for seeking treatment in state

15 May 2021 1:28 AM IST

The weather condition has intensified into a deep depression. It is very likely to further intensify into cyclonic storm Tauktae by Saturday morning. (Image: Twitter @Indiametdept)

Cyclone Tauktae to intensify into very severe storm: IMD

The depression in the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm on May 17 and cross the...

15 May 2021 1:03 AM IST

With 2,27,755 COVID-19 patients cured so far, the recovery rate has further improved to 55.49 per cent among patients. (PTI Photo)

More discharges boost morale of medical staff in Kadapa

Better care and amenities resulting in higher recoveries, low mortality

15 May 2021 1:00 AM IST

Critical COVID-19 patients receive free oxygen at a Sikh Gurudwara, amid the rise in coronavirus cases across the country, at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)

Andhra Pradesh to survey door-to-door for fever from today

The state has itself purchased Covaxin doses for administering second dose to people without waiting for supply of...

15 May 2021 12:51 AM IST

In the Indian monsoon region, initial rains are experienced over south Andaman Sea and the monsoon winds then advance north-westwards across the Bay of Bengal. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Monsoon to make early arrival over Kerala: IMD

The southwest monsoon is likely to arrive over Kerala on May 31

15 May 2021 12:50 AM IST

A cyclonic circulation, which originated along the western coast of India, and is now travelling in the northeast direction, caused the rains that lashed parts of Hyderabad and rest of the state on Friday. (DC file photo)

Lightning kills five, more rains likely in Telangana

On Friday evening, the highest rainfall of 53.3 mm was recorded at Renikunta in Thimmapur mandal in Karimnagar

15 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

One person who recovered from the Covid had developed black fungus in his lungs and died in Bhainsa while six to seven persons are undergoing treatment in private hospitals in old Adilabad district. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Black fungus worries Covid patients in Adilabad

One Covid-recovered man dies of black fungus in Bhainsa, seven others undergo treatment in private hospitals

15 May 2021 12:00 AM IST