New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): With the highest single-day spike of 38,902 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's total COVID-19 tally on Sunday reached 10,77,618, informed the Union Health Ministry. The fatality rate dropped below 2-5 per cent.
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI: For the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday informed that India's Case Fatality Rate (CFR) has dropped below 2.5 per cent.
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) [India], July 19 (ANI): Nandita Haripal, daughter of a tailor father and domestic help mother, who topped the arts stream of Jharkhand Academic Council Class 12 exams, said she aspires to become a journalist.
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of a father and son, who are accused of being part of an unlawful assembly and rioting in the Khajuri Khas area during the northeast Delhi violence in February this year.
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 18 (ANI): The 10 police personnel, arrested in connection with the alleged custodial death of a father and son in Thoothukudi, were on Saturday quested by a team of the Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission at Madurai Central Prison.
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 18 (ANI): A first-year college student was stabbed to death by a man at her residence in MR Garden after she allegedly turned down his proposal, police said on Saturday. Her father too was injured when he tried to intervene.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 18 (ANI): The number of coronavirus cases in Pakistan has surged to 261,917 while the fatalities related to the virus has reached 5,522.
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 18 (ANI): As peace talks between the government and the Taliban seem to be imminent, President Ashraf Ghani said that the peace process will be unable to move forward until the fate of the security forces personnel who are being held by the Taliban, is made clear.
Washington D.C. [USA], July 18 (ANI): Combining Western diet and antibiotic use may become a risk factor for pre-irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), suggests a recent study.
New Delhi, [India], July 18 (ANI): The Union Health Ministry has directed the government of Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Assam to take necessary steps to suppress COVID-19 transmission as well as to keep case fatality rate below 1 per cent.