Tag: covid

The Centre on Friday notified 40 questions that respondents will be asked during the second phase of the Census, the population enumeration phase, with caste and the place of Covid vaccination among them. The exercise is set to begin from September 1 in snow-bound areas, according to a government ...

#Pakistan News The World Bank slashed on Thursday its global ​growth forecast for 2026 to 2.5% due to the war in the Middle East, warning growth could slow to just 1.3% if energy supply disruptions prove more severe and come with substantial stress in financial ⁠markets. Global growth reached ...

LoP in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during the second part of the Budget Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, on March 24, 2026 | Photo Credit: PTI “India’s foreign policy is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal policy and is being considered as a universal joke,” Leader of ...

Except the 15 players who are representing India at the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, there are 40 cricketers — dispersed across multiple teams — who share some form of connection with India.The recurring theme, on most cases, is that of how lack of opportunities and an ...

Scenes like this continue to play out across South Asia, where public health workers fight not just disease, but a parallel epidemic of misinformation that undermines every evidence-based effort. Their tools aren’t just medicines and diagnostics, but trust, patience, and relentless education.Health misinformation takes many forms—from vaccine hesitancy to ...

NEW DELHI, June 2: India’s active COVID-19 cases climbed to 3,961 as of Monday morning, marking a steady rise from 3,758 reported just days earlier, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The total number of COVID-19-related deaths since January 2025 has now reached 32, with four ...

A criminal who stole millions from British taxpayers as part of a Covid fraud gang was previously sentenced to death in Pakistan. Sajid Hussain was one of nine men jailed for a total of nearly 50 years for their part in a Birmingham group who swindled small business grants, bounce ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It’s dawn at the mpox treatment site at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of the city of Goma, and Congolese medics are already hard at work, calmly and efficiently screening, isolating and caring for patients infected with the disease. Two days prior, ...

Traditionally, Muslims bury their dead facing Mecca. Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhists are typically cremated, as are Hindus.Muslim representatives in Sri Lanka welcomed the apology, but said their entire community, accounting for about 10 per cent of the island’s 22 million population, was still traumatised.Family members look at the funeral ...

Students from various organisation protest over the NEET-UG and UGC-NET examinations issue outside Ministry of Education in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP NEET-PG postponed, CBI to probe NEET-UG allegations, NTA chief removed, as panel set up for agency overhaulWith questions being raised about the “integrity of ...