Published On: April 21, 2021 09:19 AM NPT By: Reuters
INDIA, April 21: Authorities said hospitals in the Indian capital of Delhi would start running out of medical oxygen by Wednesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country faced a coronavirus "storm" overwhelming its health system.
Published On: April 21, 2021 08:55 AM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, April 21: Seema Gandotra, sick with the coronavirus, gasped for breath in an ambulance for 10 hours as it tried unsuccessfully to find an open bed at six hospitals in India’s sprawling capital. By the time she was admitted, it was too late, and the 51-year-old died hours later.
Published On: April 20, 2021 01:14 PM NPT By: Reuters
MUMBAI, April 20: India reported 1,761 deaths from COVID-19 overnight, its highest daily toll, with large parts of the country now under lockdown, as the country battles a second wave that has left people fighting for hospital beds, oxygen and medicines.
Published On: April 20, 2021 09:17 AM NPT By: Reuters
WASHINGTON DC, April 20: Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died on Monday at age 93, his family said.
Published On: April 19, 2021 02:31 PM NPT By: Associated Press
NEW DELHI, April 19: New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed the India’s capital’s health system to its limit.
Published On: April 19, 2021 01:31 PM NPT By: Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan, April 19: An outlawed Pakistani Islamist political group freed 11 policemen almost a day after taking them hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid violent clashes with security forces, the country’s interior minister said Monday.
Published On: April 19, 2021 08:51 AM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April 19: Half of all adults in the U.S. have received at least one COVID-19 shot, the government announced Sunday, marking another milestone in the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign but leaving more work to do to convince skeptical Americans to roll up their sleeves.
Published On: April 19, 2021 08:38 AM NPT By: Reuters
EGYPT, April 19: Eleven people were killed and 98 injured on Sunday in a train accident in Egypt's Qalioubia province north of Cairo, the health ministry said in a statement.
Published On: April 18, 2021 11:06 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SEOUL, April 18: The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before President Joe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue.
Published On: April 18, 2021 09:55 AM NPT By: Reuters
COLOMBIA, April 18: Some 14 rebels and one Colombian soldier have been killed in combat between guerrillas and the Andean country's military, army sources said on Saturday.