- Friday, April 04, 2025
Delhi hospitals have over 11,000 beds available for coronavirus patients, according to the city government's health bulletin issued on Tuesday. According to the bulletin, Delhi has a total of 15,300 beds and out of these 11,106 are lying vacant. In view of the COVID-19 situation in the national capital, the…
Google is in “advanced talks” to buy a $4 billion stake in the Jio digital platforms business of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, as major tech firms race to tap into the massive nation’s market. The US technology giant has been in talks to invest in…
A doctor at a hospital in Haryana's Panchkula district was thrashed by nurses on Tuesday after one of them alleged that he had sexually harassed her, police said. The nurse, who was posted in the COVID-19 isolation ward, has alleged that the doctor was in an inebriated state when he…
Fans across India prayed on Monday for Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and others members of his movie star family who have fallen sick with the coronavirus as the one-day rise in infections hit a new record without any sign of a peak. Bachchan, 77, and his son, Abhishek, remained in…
Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has renewed demands for cricket rules to give greater weight to TV playbacks over umpires in making LBW decisions. Tendulkar, a long-standing critic of the decision review system (DRS), returned to the fray after multiple LBW calls in the West Indies’ victory over England in the…
India on Tuesday recorded over 28,000 cases for the second consecutive day, taking the tally to 906,752, according to the country’s Health Ministry. The country witnessed a spike of 28,498 fresh cases, with 553 fatalities over the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 23,727, said the ministry data.…
A SECOND coronavirus wave in Britain this winter could see 120,000 deaths in hospitals alone in a “reasonable worst-case scenario”, scientists warned on Tuesday (14). The Academy of Medical Sciences report, commissioned by the government’s chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance, urged immediate action to mitigate a second wave. With hospitals…
INDIA’s IT hub Bangalore will go back into lockdown Tuesday (14) as the number of coronavirus cases in the country surged towards a million with about 500 people dying daily. After imposing one of the world’s strictest lockdowns in late March, India has been steadily easing rules to lessen the…
GOOGLE said on Monday (13) it will invest $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years as it battles rivals like Facebook and Amazon in the vast market of 1.3 billion consumers. Chief executive Sunder Pichai told a virtual Google in India event that its fund would…
A 14-year-old girl was found hanging at a boarding school in UP’s Noida, with her family alleging the she was raped, killed and the body cremated without their consent by the institute management, police said on Monday. The incident allegedly took place on July 3 at the school in Sector…
