Category: Breaking News

In this unprecedented situation around 35 people in Noida had to spend three days in the COVID-19 ward of a hospital after they were wrongly tested of Coronavirus by private labs.     According to news reports, the Noida administration has sent notices to these labs. Further, one lab has also been charged in a First Information Report filed by the police.    These 35 people had complained of mild fever, cough and cold. On advice of their respective doctors, they took Coronavirus tests, a probe into the matter revealed. Their…

Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari today announced further extension of the validity date of motor vehicle documents till September this year. Accordingly, the Ministry of RTH has issued an advisory to all States and UTs to this effect.   Earlier, MoRTH had issued an advisory on the 30th March, 2020 to all States and Union Territories wherein it was advised that the validity of Fitness, Permit (all types), Driving License, Registration or any other concerned document whose extension of validity could not or…

Pfizer continues to focus on applying science to successfully make available a vaccine that can help save the lives of millions across the world from this massive pandemic. We in India, have been actively fighting this pandemic by way of our CSR initiatives. As a part of our efforts, we are supporting the State and Central government and other healthcare institutions to bridge the gap and enhance the current healthcare infrastructure for treating the increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Support has also been provided for the frontline healthcare workers and…

Amid ongoing global pandemic and number of increasing deaths daily, New Zealand  declares it has zero remaining cases of coronavirus, Professor Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington has said in comments provided by the country’s Science Media Centre, regarding the expected move to Level 1 restrictions.   New Zealand has no active diagnosed cases of COVID-19 for the first time since 28 February, health officials say.   It has now been 17 days since the country last recorded a new case of the coronavirus.    Ardern…

The Memorandum of Understanding on Indo-Denmark Energy Cooperation between the Ministry of Power, Government of the Republic of India and the Ministry for Energy, Utilities and Climate, Government of the Kingdom of Denmark  to  develop a strong, deep and long-term co-operation between two countries in the power sector on the basis of equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit was signed on 5th June , 2020.   The MoU was signed by Mr. Sanjiv Nandan Sahai, Secretary (Power) from the Indian side and Mr. Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark to India from…

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will undergo the COVID-19 test on Tuesday, as he is down with fever, sore throat and cough since Sunday afternoon. Kejriwal has undergone quarantine, and has had all his meetings cancelled. Officials said that the Chief Minister was feeling unwell since Sunday afternoon and the doctor has advised him to go for COVID-19 test on Tuesday.   He was last seen while briefing the media on Sunday afternoon where he announced measures that hospitals run by the Delhi government and private entities will only treat Delhiites during…

The Uttar Pradesh school teacher, Anamika Shukla was arrested in Kasganj, was reportedly working simultaneously in 25 schools and earning over ₹1 crore as salary in 13 months the police said. She was arrested when she had gone to the office of Basic Shiksha Adhikari – Anjali Agarwal to tender her resignation fearing arrest after her fraud was reported in the media.   Speaking to the media, Kasganj basic education officer Anjali Aggarwal said, “Anamika sent her resignation to my office on Saturday afternoon through a friend who was detained…

Jodhpur police was claimed to kneel on a man’s neck, and the video regarding the same went viral. The police claimed that the man was not following the rules, and was roaming without a face mask and turned violent when confronted by them.   The man, identified as Mukesh Kumar Prajapat, 38, allegedly attacked the policemen when they stopped him in the city’s Chopasni Housing Board area and questioned him for not wearing a mask. The government has made it mandatory for citizens to wear a mask at public places…

Global leaders united to counter China threat amid rising tensions, since it has proved that the Novel coronavirus is human-made, A research team in Australia has come out with a murky origin theory of the novel coronavirus that caused COVID-19 pandemic.    A team led by Nikolai Petrovsky, Professor of Medicine at Flinders University, has suggested that SARS-CoV-2 was likely genetically engineered that led the virus naturally evolving in an animal subject to be effective at attaching to human cells.   Refuting the thinking the new coronavirus distributed and spread  from the famous wet…

Gurugram-based Yatra Online has filed a lawsuit against Atlanta-based , Ebix Inc. in a US court over breaches of merger agreement a little less than a year after the firm agreed to acquire the Indian online travel services company in a cash-and-stock deal.   Yatra said that it sent a notice of termination of the pending merger with Ebix and filed litigation in a court in the State of Delaware. The complaint seeks to hold Ebix accountable for breaches of its representations, warranties and covenants in the merger agreement and an ancillary extension…