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7-Month-Old Boy Survives Covid, 15cm Chest Tumour

7-mth-old couldn’t feed well because of tumour

Just Under A Lakh Get Jabs In State

Mumbai: The crisis at the vaccination centres and the chaotic scenes outside are likely to persist on Thursday.

Unsung Footsoldiers Step In To Ease The Woes Of Patients & Kin

Mumbai: These days, Wadivale Chiran Chinappa (42) doesn’t switch off his cellphone at all. On Monday, he got a call around 11 pm. A family from Andheri wanted to cremate the body of their relative who died due to Covid. Chiran drove an ambulance to the hospital in a PPE kit, took custody of the corpse and drove to the crematorium in Oshiwara. It’s not his job, but Chiran is doing this as a social obligation he has taken upon himself.

80,000 People Forced To Abandon Their Homes Due To Post-Poll Violence: Nadda

Kolkata: BJP national president J P Nadda complained that more than 80,000 people had to abandon their homes in the wake of post-poll violence in Bengal.

Deliveries Of +ve Women At Nair Hosp Cross 1k

Mumbai: BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central achieved a remarkable feat by performing 1,001 deliveries of Covid-19-positive women—possibly the first by any public-run institution in the country amid the pandemic.

More Pvt Vax Centres Open But Cost Up To ₹1,250/dose

Mumbai: A day after HN Reliance and Apollo in Navi Mumbai, Vile Parle’s Balabhai Nanavati hospital became the third private facility to start Covid vaccination for all above 18 years on Tuesday. Hospitals are charging Rs 700Rs 900 for a dose of Covishield and Rs 1,250 for Covaxin, giving rise to demands for price uniformity.

Sickly System, Healthy Democracy

Elections held during deadly pandemic surge expose India’s real flaws and strengths

Arranging Overseas Travel Is Now Board's Biggest Headache

Mumbai: Now that the IPL has been indefinitely postponed, the top worry is how to find overseas players the safest possible way home.

I Haven't Had Any Plastic Surgery, It's All Cosmetic Procedures: Shama Sikander

Having been trolled for her‘ changed’ looks, the Yeh Meri Life Hai actress Shama Sikander says that although she doesn’t owe an explanation to anyone, yet for the record, she hasn’t gone under the knife.

Why No Arrests Yet In Sunrise Hosp Fire, Victims' Kin Ask DGP

Mumbai: It has been more than a month since the FIR was filed in the fatal Sunrise Hospital fire at Bhandup, but there have been no arrests yet, the families of the victims complained to director general of police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey on Monday.

‘Ventilators Switched Off, Non-MBBS Docs Didn't Know How To Use Them'

Mumbai: The day-to-day experience of a young doctor at a Covid care centre on the outskirts of Mumbai shows rapid upgradations in facilities have been a far from smooth process.

Mum Records 2,624 Cases, Down From 11,000-Plus In Early April

Mumbai: Almost a month after Mumbai logged its worst single-day tally of 11,206 Covid-19 cases, the graph dipped sharply on Monday, with 2,624 cases detected in a 24-hour period. While the 23,542 tests done to detect these cases were lower than the city's daily average of 44,000 (in April), officials said the worst appears to be over as far as the second wave is concerned.

SC Upholds Raj Law On Regulating Fees In Private, Unaided Schools

New Delhi: In a significant order, the Supreme Court on Monday favoured a Rajasthan law which regulates fees in private unaided schools to stop profiteering by the management besides making parents a part of the process to decide on the fee structure.

City's 1st Drive-In Vax Centre Opens Today; Seniors, Differently Abled Can Get Jab In Car

Mumbai: In a first for the city, the multi-storey Kohinoor parking lot in Dadar has been turned into a civic vaccination centre with a drive-in facility. It will open its doors on Tuesday.

Suvendu Holds On To His ‘Adhikar' In Biggest Poll Battle

On December 19 last year, when Suvendu Adhikari walked into the embrace of Union home minister Amit Shah at a rally in Midnapore, the Nandigram MLA was by far the most important Trinamool leader to jump ship ahead of the Bengal assembly polls. On Sunday, as TMC swept the Bengal political landscape, Nandigram’s “ghorer chhele” was back with a bang, handing his former boss a defeat he had predicted long ago.

Nandigram El Clásico Goes Down To The Wire

Cliffhanger Culminates In Mamata Losing To Former Aide Adhikari By 1,956 Votes

BMC To Set Up 2 Oxygen Refilling Plants To Plug Supply Diversion

Mumbai: With Mumbai facing a shortage of oxygen that is supplied in cylinders through refilling plants as almost 50% of the oxygen is diverted to Thane and Navi Mumbai, the BMC has decided to set up its own refilling plants in Mumbai.

Comrade Vijayan Is Captain & Now Doubly Certified CM

In Kerala, a political front has had a successive rerun in office only twice, the first time after the Emergency, and this time in anticipation of one. In 1977, the United Front merely benefited from hindsight but in 2021 Pinarayi Vijayan’s masterstroke was to conjure what lay ahead — an ‘undeclared emergency’ created by the coronavirus and fear of virulent Hindutva politics — to the voters.

Cong Again Emerges An Also-Ran But Still Claims Only It Can Unite Country

The impact of Congress's failure to win in Kerala, allowing the Left Front to buck the “pendulum politics” of the state, threatens to be vastly disproportionate to the state’s size and the marginal space it occupies in the national political firmament.

HC Asks State Why₹50L Cover For Frontline Staff Not Extended

Mumbai: Bombay high court has questioned the state government as to why it has not extended Rs 50 lakh insurance cover for Covid frontline workers who die while performing their duty, beyond December 31, 2020.

Why 15 People Isolated In A Cave For 40 Days

Fifteen volunteers have emerged from a cave in the southwest of France after spending 40 days without clocks, phones, or sunlight for a human isolation experiment.

‘State Must Prepare For Pediatric Covid Surge'

Mumbai: The state’s Covid task force member and medical education director TP Lahane on Saturday said the entire healthcare machinery should be prepared for an “unpredicted” pediatric Covid-19 surge, in terms of infrastructure, medicines, equipment specific to the pediatric age group, standard operating procedure and high-level training to medical staff.

Aguero Takes City On Brink Of Title

London: Manchester City is on the brink of clinching the Premier League title after a 2-0 win against Crystal Palace, while Brighton virtually assured their survival with victory over Leeds on Saturday.

Global Virus Cases Reach New Peak, Driven By India And South America

Daily Rate Of Cases Now Above 8L For Over A Week

Nair Hospital Sees More Deaths Of Pregnant Women In Second Wave

Mumbai: The BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central has seen a higher number of deaths among Covid-positive pregnant women in the second wave compared with the previous year.

Only 6 States To Begin Jabs For 18+ From Today

Only six states will be able to start vaccination for the 18 to 44 age group when the nationwide drive to inoculate the younger lot kickstarts on Saturday.

Punjab Raise The Brar

Left-Arm Spinner’s 3-19, Rahul’s 91* Ensure PBKS Win

April Deaths Raise An Alarm, Trend May Persist For A While

Mumbai: Even as Mumbai's positivity rate has started to slide, high number of deaths in April has become a cause for concern. In absolute numbers, fatalities have increased nearly 200%—from 166 in the first week of April to 490 in the last week. Compared to March (215), there is a near seven-fold rise in April (1479).

Help people in ‘once in a century crisis': Modi

New Delhi: Emphasising that the recent surge in Covid infections marked a “once in a century crisis” and “a big challenge for the world”, PM Narendra Modi on Friday asked his ministers to help people in their respective regions.

MI's Campaign Back On Track

De Kock, Chahar And Bumrah Star In Facile 7-Wicket Triumph Vs Royals