Amid an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases in India, Google will be providing funding of Rs 135 crore for medical supplies and to help communities in general, informed CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday. CEO of Google and Alphabet, Pichai tweeted, “Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs […]

Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, the Sikkim government has decided to close down all educational institutions till May 31, according to a notification issued by the Education Department on Sunday. Out of 672 samples tested in the last 24 hours, 148 tested positive for COVID-19, taking the Himalayan state’s overall tally to 7,306. East […]

The United States is determined to “help” India as it faces unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, said US President Joe Biden. In a tweet, Biden acknowledged last year’s assistance from India to America when the latter was facing a healthcare crisis. Last year during the first COVID-19 wave, India shipped 50 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine to the […]

Amidst the devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India reported 3.52 lakh fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest single-day spike registered since the onset of the pandemic. A total of 3,52,991 new COVID-19 cases, 2,812 related deaths and 2,19,272 recoveries were reported in the last 24 hours, taking […]

India has become the fastest country to administer 14 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine in just 99 days, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday. The ministry said that the country has administered more than 24 lakh vaccine doses administered till 8 pm on April 24. “The cumulative number of COVID19 […]

Mizoram capital Aizawl will be on the railway map in the next two years as construction of the 51.38 km long stretch of the broad gauge railway line between Sairang and Bairabi on the Mizoram-Assam border is expected to be completed by December 2023, a railway official said. Sairang is about 20 km from Aizawl. […]

Two women pugilists from Manipur, Thokchom Sanamacha Chanu and Naorem Babyrojina Chanu, were among the seven Indian boxers who bagged gold medals at the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships 2021 in Kielce, Poland on Thursday. The historic victory of the women boxers has once again proved the might of Manipur in sports, particularly in boxing. […]

Former Mizoram minister and Congress leader PC Zoramsangliana succumbed to COVID-19 infection on Saturday. He was 65. Zoramsangliana passed away at 5:20 pm on Saturday evening. He had tested positive for Coronavirus on April 14 and was undergoing treatment at the Zoram Medical College in Aizawl. He was later moved to the intensive care unit […]

A 17-year-old girl from the North Garo Hills district in Meghalaya was allegedly bludgeoned to death by her stepfather on Friday. As per reports, the girl was allegedly raped on multiple occasions by her stepfather who would, on the pretext of assisting her, sexually assaults the young girl as often as not. While superintendent of […]

With India suffering a major crisis of oxygen supply amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, the central government has decided to import oxygen concentrated from abroad. “An order of ten thousand oxygen concentrators has been placed and oxygen concentrators import will start from next week from United States America (USA),” government sources told ANI. To fulfill […]