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Covid-19 becomes handy excuse to totally suppress Janmashtami festivities in Maha, politicians spar
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Token festivities marked the birthday of Lord Krishna -- celebrated as 'Janmashtami' and 'Dahi-Handi' -- owing to rains in most parts of Maharashtra coupled...
Over 1 lakh kids orphaned or lost a parent amid Covid: NCPCR
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The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has informed the Supreme Court that over a lakh children have either been orphaned, lost...
UK records another 35,847 coronavirus cases
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Another 35,847 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 6,590,747, according to...
US child Covid cases reach record levels since winter surge
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Confirmed Covid-19 cases among children in the US have reached record levels since the 2020 winter surge, according to the latest report from the...
Kerala Covid model once the cynosure of all eyes, now laughing stock
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Last year, Kerala was the cynosure of all eyes when the then State Health Minister K.K. Shailaja had dozens of journalists from international media...
With 23L jabs a day, Uttar Pradesh keeps adding records
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Uttar Pradesh administered 23 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine to people across the state in a single day, creating a record of sorts, officials...
Kerala fails to find answers for consistently high Covid TPR
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Kerala on Thursday saw yet another day of high Covid test positivity rate (TPR) with 21,445 people turning positive after 1,45,582 samples were sent...
Karnataka bans processions during Muharram and Ganesha festivals
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Amidst fears of the onset of a third wave of Covid in the days to come and back-to-back festivals lined up in the auspicious...
“Vaccines contain microchips, cause miscarriage”: misinformation rises in US amidst Covid surge
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The surge in Delta variant cases in the US has also fueled misinformation regarding vaccines in social media, increasing vaccine hesitancy, media reports said.
According...
Covid ravages Kerala even as the Pinarayi regime fiddles
A test positivity rate of around 13% and daily deaths rising even as other states have contained the virus has crushed Kerala. The regime...