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Bengaluru, May 11 : Taking a leaf out of Chennai NGO Oxygen on Wheels’s playbook, Karnataka on Tuesday launched its own version – OxyBus service – to aid Covid patients during emergencies.After the Covid second wave hit the state in mid-March and in…

Thiruvananthapuram, May 11 : Necessity is the mother of invention is the common saying, but for Satish, Sherry, Feroze and Shyam, presently in Thrissur, Muscat, Boston and New York respectively, founded GrainEd as a not-for-profit organization in 20…

Gurugram, May 11 : Following the guidelines given by the Gurugram district administration to open small Covid care centres in the residential society premises, around 48 Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) in Gurugram have expressed a desire to ope…

Panaji, May 11 : Oxygen is aplenty in Goa’s hospitals, but the shortage occurs only because the cylinders cannot reach the patients in time, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday, after personally inspecting facilities in the Covid ward of the…

New Delhi, May 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart Lotay Tshering on Tuesday discussed Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on both the countries and their efforts against the recent wave of the virus.Both the leaders discussed the …

Panaji, May 11 : The Bombay High Court bench in Goa on Tuesday slammed the district administration for modifying its order on making Covid negative certificates mandatory for persons entering the state.The HC order comes a day after the state’s two D…

Munger (Bihar), May 11 : Happiness over a newly-wed couple’s marriage in Bihar’s Munger district turned into gloom when the bride lost her life within six hours of solemnising the marriage.As a result, the bride’s body was taken for cremation on Mond…

Bengaulru, May 11 : As second Covid wave is sweeping across Karnataka, here’s a heart-touching story of the baby soldier, who took his first breath, a whopping 11 minutes after he was born.Bengaluru North’s Rainbow Children Hospital revived the baby …

Bengaluru, May 10 : The Bengaluru central crime branch police on Monday arrested three persons including a health department official who talked about the ‘cash for bed scam’ in hospitals at a time when the Covid second wave is sweeping across the s…

Mangaluru (Karnataka), May 10 : Indian Navy’s INS Kolkata sailed into the new Mangaluru port on Karnataka’s west coast with medical oxygen from Qatar and Kuwait, a defence official said on Monday. “As part of operation ‘Samudra Setu II’ to support t…