West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday arrived at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) office here on Monday, soon after Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, MLA Madan Mitra were brought to the CBI in connection with the Narada scam.TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee, Former Mayor Sovhan Chatterjee's wife Ratna, and MP Santanu Sen also arrived at the CBI office.Earlier today, Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, MLA Madan Mitra were brought to the CBI in connection with the Narada scam.Along with the TMC leaders, former Kolka

State Health Minister Anil Vij on Saturday said black fungus has now been declared a notified disease in Haryana.He further said Post Graduate Institute Rohtak Senior Doctors will conduct a video conference with all doctors of the state regarding dealing with coronavirus and its treatment."Black Fungus declared Notified Disease in Haryana. Now Doctors will report to CMOs of the District of any Black Fungus case detected. Post Graduate Institute Rohtak Senior Doctors will conduct a video conference with all Doctors of the State dealing Corona about its treatment," Anil Vij said in a tweet.It ha

Foreign nations continue to pour in support to India in its fight against the deadly wave of coronavirus. More flights from countries including Qatar, Canada, Kazakhstan and South Korea arrived in India with medical supplies. Flight from South Korea arrived with 10,000 rapid testing kits and 100 negative pressure carriers. Kazakhstan sent over 5.6 million masks/respirators.Meanwhile, Qatar gifted 200 oxygen concentrators, 40 ventilators, and 4,300 Remdesivir vials to the country. Canada also sent 300 ventilators to India.

Senior plastic surgery specialist Major General SK Singh was appointed as the new head of the Indian Army's Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment on Thursday.Till now, Major General SK Singh was posted at Military Hospital in Lucknow where he was looking after COVID-19 treatment of military personnel and ex-servicemen along with the running of medical facilities for civilians created by DRDO.

As India is witnessing an exponential surge in COVID-19 cases and burden on medical infrastructure, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press conference on May 11 informed that WHO has launched an initiative 'Together for India' to raise funds in order to support the country in this fight against pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, "Today WHO is launching an initiative 'Together for India' to support WHO's work in India, including the purchase of oxygen, personal protective equipments and medicines." Calling it a perilous situation on the

Scores of dead bodies have been found floating down the Ganges River in eastern India as the country battles a ferocious surge in coronavirus infections. Authorities say they haven't yet determined the cause of death. Health officials working through the night Monday in Bihar state retrieved 71 bodies. Images on social media of the bodies in the river prompted outrage and speculation that they died from COVID-19. Authorities performed post mortems on Tuesday but said they could not confirm the cause of death due to decomposition of the bodies. More corpses were found floating in the river on

India registered 3,66,161 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, said the union health ministry on Monday morning. With this, the cumulative count of the cases has gone up to 2,26,62,575.As many as 3,754 people succumbed to the disease in the country in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative death toll to 2,46,116.As per the government data, a present there are 37,45,237 active cases of COVID-19 in the country.The country also witnessed as many as 3,53,818 recoveries taking the cumulative recoveries to 1,86,71,222.Meanwhile, the total doses of the COVID-19 vaccine administered stand at

Amid second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, a special flight carrying medical supplies from Thailand arrived at the Delhi airport on May 08. 200 oxygen cylinders and 10 oxygen concentrators have been sent by Thailand government. While 100 oxygen cylinders and 60 oxygen concentrators have been donated by Indian community in Thailand. Several countries including US, Germany, Begium, Dubai have extended their support to India as country is battling with the severe second wave of COVID-19 pandemic.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar questioned the safety of common people in West Bengal after the attack on the convoy of Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan who was visiting Paschim Medinipur after post-poll violence was reported in several parts of the state. "If a minister's convoy can be attacked, then, who is safe in Bengal? This is state-sponsored violence. We condemn violence in Bengal. Special measures should be taken to bring the culprits to justice," said Union Minister Javadekar.