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Dose of reality: India’s faltering Covid-19 vaccination drive tracked to 21 states Dose of reality: India’s faltering Covid-19 vaccination drive tracked to 21 states Delhi is leading the chart in the list of states with a maximum proportion of population vaccinated in the age group of 18-44. Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Jharkhand follow Delhi in the list. advertisement UPDATED: May 28, 2021 01:25 IST On the positive side, Assam and Delhi saw a jump in the average daily vaccination rate. (F...

While India didn't announce a national lockdown to tackle the second wave of Covid-19, the citizenry appears to have delivered remarkable compliance with the stay-at-home guidance when almost 98% of the country was under some sort of restriction.

Second wave of infections leads to surge in Covid deaths, experts say casualties preventable In absolute numbers, India is reporting more than 3,000 new deaths everyday. This translates into roughly 125 deaths an hour, sometimes even more. Then there is underreporting. advertisement UPDATED: May 5, 2021 21:40 IST Mass cremation of Covid-19 victims on the outskirts of Bengaluru on April 30, 2021 (Photo Credits: PTI) HIGHLIGHTS There has been a seven fold increase in deaths reported in the last o...

Reducing oil dependence? India’s crude oil production on slippery slope The government has attributed the fall in oil production to exhausted fields and reservoir issues in the past. There are however many other reasons contributing to the slide. advertisement UPDATED: February 24, 2021 20:25 IST The ageing of the existing fields and low response for new projects have made the path more difficult for indigenous oil production. (Photo: DIU/India Today) The spike in petrol and diesel prices in ...

Maximum state, maximum districts: Fresh surge in Maharashtra’s Covid cases Maximum state, maximum districts: Fresh surge in Maharashtra’s Covid cases Amravati and Nagpur districts show alarming jumps in daily new cases since the beginning of this month. advertisement UPDATED: February 24, 2021 11:09 IST Maharashtra is the worst-hit state in India and has recorded the maximum number of deaths due to coronavirus. Maharashtra’s rising Covid-19 cases has forced the state government to contemp...

Centre Plans Crackdown on Spam, Scam Calls and Texts, Jamtara & Mewat Emerge as Hotspots FOLLOW US ON: The Centre is planning to take down spam and financial frauds that are carried out over phone calls and text messages, the communications ministry said in a statement on Monday, announcing work on a new platform to report unsolicited calls and messages and a new Data Intelligence Unit that will help coordinate between law enforcement agencies, banks and service providers. The announcement was ...

Budget 2021: Govt’s ambitious project to provide Internet to all falls short of target Four out of every 10 persons in rural India have no access to a basic cell phone. advertisement UPDATED: January 28, 2021 15:59 IST In 2020, the government had exponentially raised the budget for the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. (Photo for representation: Reuters) The government aims to bring broadband to every village to promote ‘Digital India’ but a major chunk of rural India...

In the first five days since the vaccination began, nearly 11 percent of 61 lakh health workers in India have taken a shot of either Covaxin or Covishield.

India lost seven times more doctors than soldiers in 2020 India lost seven times more doctors than soldiers in 2020 At least 734 doctors died in their line of duty while 106 personnel of the security forces made supreme sacrifices in the last year. advertisement Guwahati: An artist paints murial depicting doctor saving lives of people amid Covid-19 pandemic | PTI The bigger battle in the year 2020 was fought in hospitals, where several frontline health workers lost their lives in the line of d...

Pandemic death toll worldwide swells with the onset of Covid-19 vaccination Even as countries around the globe are in a haste to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, data shows that the pandemic is far from over. Covid-19s average daily death toll has almost doubled since its peak of the first wave in mid-April. Nearly two million people have lost their lives across the world, since January 2020. advertisement UPDATED: January 14, 2021 10:23 IST Even as countries around the globe ...