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COVID-19: Mamata urges PM Modi for tax exemption on medicines, medical equ
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 9 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to exempt COVID-related life-saving drugs and equipment from GST and customs duty to eliminate any supply constraints amid the second wave of coronavirus.
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Kohli expresses gratitude towards healthcare and frontline workers amid te
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Sunday expressed gratitude towards healthcare and frontline workers who have helped everyone in difficult times in fighting the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Oxygen Express with 80 MT liquid medical oxygen reaches Kanpur
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 9 (ANI): Kanpur received its first Oxygen Express on Sunday morning with 80 metric tonnes (MT) of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) amid the oxygen crisis across the country due to the second wave of the coronavirus.
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COVID-19: Pope Francis backs vaccine patents waiver
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], May 9 (ANI): Pope Francis has backed growing calls for a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines in a video message for a public concert on Saturday.
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Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh receive fresh stock of COVID-19 vaccines
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): As states are conducting large-scale vaccination drives against coronavirus, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have received fresh stocks of COVID-19 vaccines.
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India logs over 4 lakh COVID-19 cases for 4th day in a row
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 9 (ANI): With 4,03,738 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours, India continued to report more than four lakh daily coronavirus infections for the fourth day on the trot.
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Taxi drivers adversely affected in J-K's Srinagar amid COVID lockdown
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 9 (ANI): As COVID-19 restrictions continue in Jammu and Kashmir, people involved in the taxi business in Srinagar have been facing difficulty due to the lockdown imposed by the government to curb the coronavirus.
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ISKCON Siliguri starts food distribution among COVID-19 patients and their
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], May 9 (ANI): Amid rising cases of coronavirus infections across the state, the International Society For Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) Siliguri has started distributing food among COVID-19 patients.
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Giving demonstration on camera, BJP MLA in UP recommends drinking cow urin
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Balia (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 9 (ANI): As Covid-19 cases continue to surge across India, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Uttar Pradesh has claimed that drinking cow urine 'gaumutra' has protected him from coronavirus and also called on people to drink the same to defeat the dead
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Andhra receives 491MT oxygen, asks for more from nearby plants
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], May 9 (ANI): After the Central government increased Andhra Pradesh's allocation of oxygen to 590 metric tonnes, the state government has requested for more from Chennai and Bellary plants nearby to reduce transport time.
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Not sabotaging farmers protest but won't allow violation of COVID curbs, s
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Chandigarh, (Punjab) [India], May 9 (ANI): While pointing out that there was no question of sabotaging the farmer's agitation against the farm laws, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday reiterated that no violation of the weekend lockdown and other restrictions in the st
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Uttarakhand CM asks officials to speed up COVID-19 vaccination
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], May 9 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat has instructed officials to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination in the state in the wake of rise in coronavirus cases.
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