The first US Air Force carrier with Covid-19 relief supplies, reached India on Friday. The shipment included 440 oxygen cylinders and regulators, generously donated by the state of California, USAID said.
The former Attorney general and legal luminary Soli J Sorabjee passed away on Friday. He was 91 and survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons. Sorabjee and his wife had tested positive for Covid some days back, sources said. While wife is recovering well, Sorabjee succumbed as he had many co-morbidity. He led India to victory in IIC against Pakistan in Atlantique downing case.
Rudy Giuliani sought to discredit the federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine on Thursday, a day after agents raided his home and office.
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was among four people who pleaded guilty on Friday of participating in an illegal assembly on June 4 last year to commemorate the 1989 crackdown on protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Brazil on Thursday became the second country to officially top 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month, as some health experts warn there may be gruesome days ahead when the Southern Hemisphere enters winter.
India on Friday posted a record daily rise of over 3.86 lakh new Covid-19 cases and continued to post over 3,000 deaths for the third consecutive day, as per Union health ministry data updated at 8 am. The death jumped by 3,498 over the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll to 2,08,330. With 386,452 new cases, India's tally of total Covid-19 cases now stands at 1,87,62,976.
Former attorney general and legal luminary Soli J Sorabjee passed away on Friday. He was 91-years-old and is survived by wife, a daughter and two sons. Sorabjee and his wife had tested positive for Covid-19 some days back, sources said.
Given India’s growing strategic importance, its wave of infections risks not only the fledgling recovery in Asia’s third-largest economy, but attempts to tamp down Covid-19 and recuperate globally. The nation is now the main hotspot of the pandemic, despite being home to the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer.
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had thronged to the Galilee tomb of 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for annual Lag B'Omer commemorations that include all-night prayer, mystical songs and dance.
The exit polls will begin shortly after voting for the eighth phase in West Bengal will conclude tomorrow.
Polling began at 7am on Thursday for 35 seats in the eighth phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal amid the surging second wave of Covid-19. " In line with the Covid-19 protocols, I call upon people to cast their vote and enrich the festival of democracy," PM Modi said in a tweet.
The United States will be delivering Covid-19 relief materials worth over $100 million to India in the coming days, the White House said as the first flight carrying urgent health supplies left for the country. The flight took off from the Travis Air Force Base on the world's largest military aircraft on Wednesday night, the US Agency for International Development said.
President Joe Biden took aim at China in his first speech to Congress on Wednesday, pledging to maintain a strong US military presence in the Indo-Pacific and promising to boost technological development and trade.
Countries around the world have been rushing to help India alleviate the crisis. India's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
Polling began at 7 am on Thursday for 35 seats in the eighth phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal amid the rampaging second wave of Covid-19. As many as 283 candidates are in the fray for 35 seats in four districts. Ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP are contesting on all 35 seats. Congress, the Left parties and the Indian Secular Front (ISF) have made a coalition.
An affidavit filed by the Centre in the Supreme Court on Tuesday shows how an initial estimation of Karnataka’s demand for liquid medical oxygen by April 30 was only at 111 tonnes/day — at least 10 times lower than the state’s current projection. This has raised concerns over a demand-supply mismatch in the coming days.
An earthquake of magnitude 2.7 on the Richter scale struck Assam's Sonitpur in the early hours of Thursday morning, said the National Center for Seismology. This is the sixth earthquake that occurred in Sonitpur on Thursday after 12.00 am. According to the NCS, the quake occurred at 2:38 am. The epicentre of the quake was 38 kilometres West-Northwest of Tezpur at a depth of 11 kilometres. Earlier today, earthquakes of magnitude 2.6, 2.9, 4.6, 2.7, and 2.3 on the Richter Scale had hit Sonitpur at 12.24 am, 1.10 am, 1.20 am, 1.41 am and 1.52 am respectively.
The Supreme Court batted strongly for more systemic protection to disabled and caste oppressed women and said they lived under a constant threat of violence, both physical and sexual, that curtailed their constitutionally guaranteed right to lead a full and active life.
May 1 was to be a ‘hope day’ for the country, beginning a big bang inoculation drive for the youth. But, on Wednesday, when the registration process began, most states put off their plans, faced with vaccine shortage while many beneficiaries could not get dates for inoculation.
India on Wednesday reported a record rise in Covid-19 deaths over the last 24 hours, taking its total fatalities past the 200,000 mark with total tally of cases at 1.8 crore. With 3,293 new deaths, India's total number of fatalities now stands at 201,187. The country recorded 3,60,960 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours taking the total tally of cases to 1,79,97,267.
The proposal will now be sent to the attorney general and must be approved by parliament to become law. The government holds a majority in parliament and the proposal could easily be passed.
The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19 first found in India had as of Tuesday been detected in over 1,200 sequences uploaded to the GISAID open-access database "from at least 17 countries".
"This is something where we're still gaining data on a daily basis. But the most recent data, was looking at convalescent Sera of Covid-19 cases and people who received the vaccine used in India, the Covaxin. It was found to neutralise the 617 variants," America's top pandemic expert Dr Anthony Fauci said.
The United States is sending a whole series of help that India needs in its battle against Covid-19, President Joe Biden said, reiterating that New Delhi had done the same when his country was in need last year.
If medical oxygen demand is an indicator of the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centre’s affidavit before the Supreme Court predicts a harder time for seven populous states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi and Chhattisgarh — where demand for oxygen is estimated to increase significantly by April 30.
The 10-year expansion was significantly slower than the previous decade, when the population grew by 9.7 percent, and was barely above the record low of 7.3 percent over 1930-1940, when the United States and the world were mired in the Great Depression.
The announcement came as the country recorded its highest daily death toll in recent days since the start of the pandemic, and officials said the health care system was nearing its breaking point.
A WHO spokeswoman said that it was not clear at this point to what extent the variant was responsible for the rapid increase in cases in India in recent months. There are many factors that could have contributed to this, she said.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a February 1 coup, shunting the country back into junta rule. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since then, with the junta charging her under six cases -- including for sedition and having unlicensed walkie-talkies.
Over the weekend, defense secretary Lloyd Austin said he is working closely with other US agencies to rapidly deploy oxygen-related equipment, rapid testing kits, personal protective equipment, and other essential materials to Indian partners.from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3BoPIAm
