Amit Bhattacharya
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Covid-19 cases inching up for past three weeks in India
India News: India saw a week-on-week spike of 63% in the seven days ending Sunday, after a 39% rise in the previous week and a 13% rise the week before. In fact, → Read More
Bhuj first city to hit 40 degree Celsius this season, 1st time in 12 years: IMD
In a rapid transition from winter to summer-like conditions in several parts of India, Bhuj in Gujarat became the first station in the country to hit → Read More
Monsoon at risk: US agency again warns of El Nino
India News: In what could be an adverse signal for this year’s monsoon rainfall, US government weather agency NOAA has for the second month in a row indicated th → Read More
50,000 years on, 'green comet' comes visiting again
Science News: Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), popularly known as the "green comet", which last visited Earth's neighbourhood 50,000 years ago when the Neanderthals were sti → Read More
First since March, 2020: Under 100 Covid cases in a day
India News: No Covid death was reported in India for 4 days at a stretch, again a first since 2020. India reported 83 fresh cases on Monday, down from 114 on the → Read More
3 weeks of China scare, no Covid rise in India
India News: Nearly three weeks after Indian health authorities stepped up vigil in the wake of a major Covid-19 surge in China, there’s no sign of an uptick in in → Read More
For 2nd week, India sees slight rise in Covid cases; signs of Karnataka spike
India News: For the second week running, India recorded a marginal rise in Covid-19 cases although the numbers remained very low. → Read More
India's Covid numbers at record low amid rise in global cases
India News: Covid-19 cases have generally been rising around the world since early November but the numbers continue to steadily decline in India. In the week tha → Read More
Curious surge in Covid tests amid falling cases
India News: While Covid-19 cases in India dipped sharply in November to the lowest since the pandemic’s first month (March 2020), there was a sudden surge in test → Read More
Farm stubble burning: Why Delhi’s air gets hit while Punjab cities are cleaner
When en masse burning of paddy stubbles in Punjab and Haryana often causes an air emergency in Delhi-NCR during the peak fire period, what impact doe → Read More
India’s weekly cases rise as Kerala Covid count up 50%
India News: Fresh cases of Covid-19 surged by more than 50% in Kerala in the week following the Onam festival, leading to a marginal increase in India's case coun → Read More
Sharpest dip in weekly Covid numbers in 4 months
India News: NEW DELHI: India recorded a big dip in Covid-19 numbers in the week ending Sunday, with both fresh cases and deaths registering their sharpest weekly . → Read More
This monsoon, 'dry' Rajasthan is 60% wetter than UP so far
India News: NEW DELHI: In an inversion of the normal rainfall pattern over the region, the adjacent states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh find themselves at oppos. → Read More
1st in 8 weeks, India logs less than 1 lakh Covid cases; deaths dip too
India News: For the first time in eight weeks, India recorded less than 1 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases in the week ending Sunday, as nearly all states and UTs regist → Read More
Covid cases dip after 10 weeks, but some states seeing a surge
India News: Fresh Covid cases in India registered a drop in the week ending Sunday. The fall, however, is likely to be just around 4% as compared to the previous → Read More
Weekly Covid cases 6.5% up nationally, 37% in Delhi
India News: Delhi registered a 37% rise in Covid cases in the week ending Sunday, breaking a three-week spell of declining infections, in a pattern of alternating → Read More
Finally, north India set to get wet
India News: NEW DELHI: After intense spells in south and central India this month, monsoon action could finally be shifting north, including to states with high r. → Read More
CUET was meant to de-stress. It's turned out to be a nightmare
India News: Instead of reducing stress, which is what exam officials claim, the common entrance test has only ended up heightening students' anxiety. "It's the st → Read More
Indiscriminate arrests create impression of police state: Supreme Court
India News: The Supreme Court on Monday urged the Centre to frame a law to restrain investigating agencies from arresting the accused unnecessarily saying that i → Read More
India logs 1 lakh weekly Covid cases, highest in 4 months; deaths up 50%
India News: India recorded over one lakh fresh cases of Covid-19 in the week ending Sunday, the highest weekly count in more than four months, even as infections → Read More