Bengaluru, on Saturday registered a count of 149 deaths due to Covid-19, which has been the highest so far, along with another record of the count of 1,000 deaths triggered by Covid-19 infections right in the period of one month.The rising concern with the surge in the cases for the city of Bengaluru is that…
Jalina Porter, US State Department spokesperson on Friday amid a press briefing gave the reaffirmation that US will be involved very closely with India for facilitating movement of essential supplies amid the spike in the Covid-19 cases. While revealing an update over India’s request regarding US position on the embargo over lifting of raw materials…
Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana on Saturday took the oath as the 48th Chief Minister of India in front of President Ram Nath Kovind amid a brief ceremony organized at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. At the ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. Justice Ramana who…
Health Minister of Karnataka, Dr K Sudhakar has urged all the private and government medical colleges to allot all of their beds for the Covid-19 infections patients within a period of three to four days. Although, the reservation can be excluded for cases such as emergency beds, mother and child care and dialysis patients, said…
The Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) has given emergency approval authorisation on Friday for the use of ‘Virafin’, Pegylated Interferon alpha – 2b (PegIFN) for treatment of moderate Covid-19 infections in adults. A single dose of Virafin will accelerate the treatment and make it more convenient.When administered in the early phase during Covid-19, it…
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has commenced the airlifting of big oxygen tankers from their region of utilization to the filling stations throughout the country to accelerate the distribution of much required oxygen, said the IAF on Friday.During the operation, C-17 and IL-76 aircraft of IAF airlifted two cryogenic oxygen containers and another IL-76 aircraft…
India is now planning to import mobile oxygen-generation plants and containers from Germany for deployment at the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) hospitals for treatment of Covid-19 patients considering the severe oxygen shortage in the country. The AFMS has taken a call over importing 23 mobile oxygen-generation plants which will be reaching India in a…
With the weekend lockdown commencing from April 24 in Karnataka, the Namma metro services will not be operational during Saturdays and Sundays. In a press release, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) stated, “Metro services will be closed down for the whole day (on Saturdays and Sundays) in view of the weekend curfew.” The officials have…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday had a dialogue with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, thereby reaffirmed the importance of US-India relationship amid the agreement to coordinate closely for further establishing peace in Afghanistan and restoring democracy in Myanmar. US State Department spokesperson Ned Price shared the information about the talks between the…
Around 10 am on Wednesday morning, a count of 15 ambulances were waiting before the gate of Kundlu crematorium in Bengaluru, along with a few family members in each one of them.Just like other crematoria in the city, it has been busier than ever.Chandru, a staff member from the electric crematorium, experiences severe fatigue and…
