Year: 2020

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia was handed over an additional charge of Health Ministry and other departments. The change was done after Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain who underwent COVID-19 test was declared positive, an official said.   Jain was admitted to Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital early Tuesday after running high fever and suffering a sudden drop in oxygen level. The 55-year-old leader’s test result came positive on Wednesday evening after a second test.   Jain will remain the cabinet minister without any portfolio in the Kejriwal government until…

For patients on ventilators, the treatment was shown to reduce mortality by about one third, and for patients requiring only oxygen, mortality was cut by about one fifth, according to preliminary findings shared with WHO.   The benefit was only seen in patients seriously ill with COVID-19, and was not observed in patients with milder disease.   “This is the first treatment to be shown to reduce mortality in patients with COVID-19 requiring oxygen or ventilator support,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “This is great news and I congratulate the Government…

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who was admitted to a hospital due to high-grade fever, will be tested again for COVID-19 today, a senior official said.   The 55-year-old minister was brought to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) past midnight and was administered a test for novel coronavirus on Tuesday morning.   “He still has fever. The minister though tested negative for COVID-19 today, will again undergo the same tests after 24 hours of the first test,” the senior official confirmed.   Doctors at the hospital said his…

After the city suffered a major outbreak of Coronavirus that affected more than 130 cases, the city officials have urged residents not to leave the city, and several provinces have quarantined travellers from Beijing in recent days.   The new cases have raised fears of a second wave of infections as China had largely brought its domestic outbreak under control.   City authorities on Tuesday had also announced a travel ban for residents of “medium- or high-risk” areas of the city, while requiring other residents to take nucleic acid tests…

Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon, on Monday, who was hospitalized has been put on elective ventilator support, as informed by Lucknow’s Medanta Hospital. Tandon has been undergoing dialysis due to problems in his lungs, kidney, and liver.   The MP Governor was admitted to the hospital on 11 June complaining of difficulties in breathing, urination, and fever. The hospital issued a medical bulletin stating that the governor was kept under supervision of doctors and was treated as per CT guided procedure.     Subsequently, Tandon developed internal abdominal bleeding after…

President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday said, Russia will soon be in a position to counter hypersonic arms deployed by other countries, adding that Moscow was ahead of the United States in developing new types of weapons.   Hypersonic glide vehicles can steer an unpredictable course and manoeuvre sharply as they approach impact. They also follow a much flatter and lower trajectory than ballistic missiles.   Washington and Moscow have been expanding their defense capabilities as some Cold War-era arms control agreements collapsed during worsening of Russia’s ties with the…

Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has tweeted a tampered video of Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the BJP has alleged, in which the MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is heard promoting consumption of liquor. The Bhopal Crime Branch on Monday registered an FIR against Digvijaya Singh in connection with the circulation of an alleged “edited” video of CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s old statement on liquor.   In their complaint to the crime branch, the BJP leaders said that Chouhan had given a statement against the liquor policy of the then Kamal Nath…

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder condemns the killing of George Floyd as a “horrific racist act,” and calls on protesters to remain nonviolent in expressing their legitimate anger.    “Like most Americans, I was sickened by the sight of a Minneapolis police officer murdering a young African-American man in a horrific racist act reminiscent of the worst moments in our nation’s history. But the answer to racism and bigotry must never be rampant violence. I join leaders on all sides of the political spectrum in calling for calm…

The country’s foreign exchange reserves crossed the half-a-trillion mark for the first time after it surged by a massive $8.22 billion in the week ended June 5, according to the latest data from the RBI.   The reserves rose to $501.70 billion in the reporting week helped by a whopping rise in foreign currency assets (FCA).   In the previous week ended May 29, the reserves had increased by $3.44 billion to $493.48 billion.   In the week ended June 5, FCA, which is a major component of the overall…