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COVID-19 Played Havoc With My Metabolic Health: Megha Gupta

Megha Gupta has had a rather challenging time recovering from COVID19 after testing positive on April 29. What made it tougher was the fact that she is a Type One diabetic.

Field Hospitals Evacuated, Upgrade Likely Before Covid Patients Return

Mumbai: The three Jumbo centres or field hospitals at Dahisar, Mulund and BandraKurla Complex (BKC), that have helped the city tide over the second Covid wave, will stay shut for the next 10-15 days as they are taken up for repairs and upgrades. It will render over 4,000 beds out of circulation. More than 600 patients were moved out of the facilities over the weekend and shifted to eight hospitals ahead of the cyclone.

India Loses $3 Bn Bet, Iran Says No To Deal On Farzad-B Gas Field

New Delhi: India has lost its $3 billion bet on Iran, with Tehran showing the door to New Delhi in the Farzad-B gas field after a decade of negotiations with a consortium of Indian state-run oil companies that discovered the asset in 2008.

12 Days Of Curbs In Nashik Hit Veggie Supply To Mumbai

Nashik: Vegetable supply to Mumbai from Nashik has been severely hit due to the enforcement of 12 days of strict restrictions by the Nashik district administration. Nashik, which is an agricultural hub, is known as the “Kitchen of Mumbai”.

Battled Anxiety For 10-12 Years: Tendulkar

Mumbai: With mental health no more being a taboo subject in India, more and more top cricketers are opening up on how the stressful environment of international cricket challenged them psychologically. If in 2019 Virat Kohli spoke about how he felt as the loneliest individual in the world after failing on the England tour in 2014, Sachin Tendulkar in 2021 has revealed that he experienced “very high levels of anxiety” in the first half of his career.

BMC Vaccination Centres On Cyclone Holiday Today

Mumbai: In response to the warning about cyclone Tauktae, the BMC on Sunday cancelled the vaccination drive for Monday at all public centres. The three-day walk-in-only drive of the BMC will now commence on Tuesday and continue till Thursday. Senior citizens and differently-abled persons may walk in for the first dose of Covishield on these three days.

Centre Sends States Technical Fix Guide After Ventilator Complaints

States have also been asked to routinely change key consumables like flow sensors and oxygen sensors

From Hosp, She Helped Dharavi Celebrate Eid

Mumbai: A few days before Eid, Shaheen Jamadar’s phone began buzzing non-stop. A bunch of people from Dharavi was desperate to know where she was. It was festival time and they needed ration and clothes that she had been organising through an NGO ever since the lockdown began, reports Nitasha Natu.

It's Complicated: Grief In The Age Of Covid-19

Even as Covid keeps us isolated, loss surrounds us all. Some are seeking support from helplines and support groups

Despite crunch, India will have to send vaccines to neighbours

Govt Tracking Situation In Other Nations

A ‘one-way' wedding: In U'khand red zone, brides come to wed grooms

Pithoragarh: In a Covid-hit village of Uttarakhand without medical facilities or doctors, two weddings have set an example. Instead of the groom going to fetch the bride and then returning, which would have caused people — baratis — moving out twice, the brides came to their new home with less than five persons, wed the grooms and stayed put in the village. Tradition? Well, it had to be tweaked a bit keeping in mind the current crisis.

Swift op helps Taloja oxy plant bring vital spare part from Guj

Mumbai: A technical snag in a Taloja oxygen plant on May 10 resulted in officials across departments in the state and the Union government working their phone lines and carrying out an operation for over 16 hours to ensure that the snag did not affect oxygen manufacture. Linde India plant at Taloja supplies about 243 metric tonnes of oxygen daily to hospitals in the state.

Showers lash parts of city, up to 80kmph winds expected today

Mumbai: Several parts of Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai began to experience showers late on Saturday on account of Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea. It was expected to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” in the next 12 hours.

UP Police Deploy Cams To Check ‘Water Burials'

Form 34 Teams To Keep Watch On People

K'taka Sees 7 Deadliest Days Of The Pandemic

Toll 3,500 From May 7-13, Up 107% From Wk Before

America Unmasks With Idea Of Driving More People To Get Shots

The smiles are returning. Commerce and close-contact engagement is coming back.

City's 1,660 Cases Lowest In 63 Days, State Tally Under 40k; Deaths Still High

Mumbai: Maharashtra reported 39,923 cases on Friday, the first time it has dipped below 40,000 since March 31 (39,544), if one discounts the 37,236 cases recorded on Monday (May 10) as testing is usually much lower on Sundays. Fatalities, at 695, were 20% down from the 850 deaths on Thursday.

Govt Hopeful Of Vaccinating Entire Adult Popn By Dec

Current Vax Crunch Likely To Ease By July. Vax availability estimates dynamic

‘States must have power to identify, declare SEBCs'

Centre Seeks Review Of SC Judgment; Says Minority Verdict is Correct

Will Not Arrest Param Bir Till May 20, State Tells HC

Former city police commissioner Param Bir Singh will not be arrested till May 20 in connection with an FIR based on a complaint by police officer Bhimrao Ghadge, the state government told the Bombay high court on Thursday.

Mantralaya Staffer Takes On 4 Armed Robbers In Local, Nabs 1

A 53-year-old Mantralaya employee turned the tables on a gang of four robbers, including a woman, armed with a knife and razor blades, inside a Central Railway train compartment on Wednesday morning.

Navi Mum Complex First Off Blocks In Holding Vax Camp With Pvt Hospital

The upscale NRI complex at Seawoods here is kicking off an in-house vaccination drive for all its adult residents in collaboration with a private hospital, becoming probably the first housing complex in the entire Mumbai Metropolitan Region to take this route to inoculate all its residents at a time when vaccine shortage is convulsing the drive.

BJP Lists Measures Taken To Halt Surge

‘PM Warned CMs During 6 Meetings’

Fisherman snips net as 1,500kg whale rocks boat to set self free

A 1,500 kg whale shark caught in a fishing net off Uttan, Bhayander (west), was rescued and released by a fisherman on Wednesday after a two-hour struggle to let it go. The fisherman, David Garya, damaged his net and will seek compensation from the fisheries department.

Get Vaccines & Give Them Free To All, Says Opposition

Repeal Farm Laws And Stop Work On Central Vista: 12 Parties

India Tells China To Stop Price Gouging

India has protested against rampant price gouging of Covid material by Chinese suppliers with the consul general in Hong Kong, Priyanka Chauhan, in an unusual comment telling the South China Morning Post that New Delhi expects China to keep a handle on prices of products bought to battle the current Covid-19 surge.

Rumours Of Trouble In Karan Mehra And Nisha Rawal's Marriage, Nisha Denies It

There are rumours that TV couple Karan Mehra and Nisha Rawal, who have been married for nine years now, are going through a rough patch.

India Celebrated Prematurely, Lowered Covid Guard: Fauci

Learning From India’s Laxity, US Lining Up Booster Shot For Its People

Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai Is All Set To Woo The Audience

Salman Khan’s much-awaited film Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhaiis all set for its release today. The entire world is facing unprecedented tough times during the pandemic.

‘Curbs on gatherings needed to limit spread'

Night Curfew Has Not Been Effective: Govt