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Iran said on Saturday that it might bar travellers from India over a COVID-19 variant to avert its spread within the already stricken country. Officials, however, didn't say if any cases of the variant first identified in India in late March had been detected in Iran, the epicentre of the pandemic within the Middle East . "The Indian coronavirus may be a new threat we face," President Hassan Rouhani said in remarks broadcast on state TV. "The Indian virus is more dangerous than English and Brazilian variants," he added. "All the eastern provinces should confirm people infected with the virus don't cross the borders into the country," Rouhani said. Iran's eastern provinces border with Pakistan and Afghanistan. Visitors also can travel Iran by way of the Gulf. Iran's civil aviation organisation announced on local media that each one flights to and from India and Pakistan would be halted from midnight Sunday. Health Minister Saeed Namaki has a

Actor Nawab Shah has tested positive for COVID-19. The actor, in an Instagram post on Friday, revealed that he has "mild symptoms" which he has isolated himself since he got his coronavirus test result. "This morning I tested positive for COVID, I even have mild symptoms and that i have isolated myself since I acknowledged about my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and stay safe...#stayhome #staysafe," he wrote. Nawab Shah's wife, actress Pooja Batra, also shared a post about him contracting the virus. "It's heart breaking to understand numerous of my friends and their parents are down with COVID, my husband too tested positive," she wrote. "I pray that everybody who goes through this infections comes out of it with none complications. #stayhome #staysafe #vaccinate. we'd like to urge obviate this nasty gnarly virus from India, from the planet ," she added. Nawab Shah made his acting debut with the 2000 film Raja Ko Ran

  Customs duty to be waived off on vaccines, oxygen, related equipment amid Covid crisis

Who would have imagined that our news would be dominated with stories of large hospitals in the capital running out of oxygen? Or the apocalyptic scenes of mile-long lines of ambulances and the eerie orange haloes from burning pyres that light up the night sky. This, however, is the tragedy unfolding in hospital after hospital, city after city. The bad news is that worse is to come if we don't deal with the burgeoning rates of infection. India has seen one of the fastest rates of increase in cases in the world. New cases have grown 25-fold since March and we are above 3 lakh cases a day, reaching new peaks. (1) Worryingly, case positivity is high; nearly one in five in the country and one in three in Delhi are positive. This signifies the extent to which the second wave is infectious. As opposed to 2020, we are now dealing with much more transmissible variants. In one study, 80 per cent of cases in Punjab were positive for the highly transmissible UK Kent variant. There are newer d

A C-17 aircraft of the Indian Air Force took off from the Hindon airbase in the outskirts of Delhi for Singapore's Changi airport early on Saturday morning, the official told news agency Press Trust of India. Amid the grim COVID-19 situation in the country, four cryogenic tanks, to be used for the transportation of oxygen, are being airlifted from Singapore today. A Home Ministry official said the four empty tanks are being brought to India by a heavy lift transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force. A C-17 aircraft of the Indian Air Force took off from the Hindon airbase in the outskirts of Delhi for Singapore's Changi airport early on Saturday morning, the official told news agency Press Trust of India. After loading the tanks, the aircraft is expected to land at Panagarh air base in West Bengal this evening, another official told Press Trust of India. On Friday, the Union Home Ministry said it was in talks for the import of high-capacity oxygen-carrying tankers from Singapore

Two dozen cryogenic oxygen transport tanks will be airlifted to India to increase transport capacity from production sites to hospitals battling critical shortages amid a frightening wave of coronavirus infections, consumer goods giant ITC Limited tweeted Saturday afternoon. The ISO-certified tanks will be flown in from neighbouring Asian countries in collaboration with Linde - a privately-held German company that is also a major supplier of medical oxygen. "To serve the national priority and the government's effort in easing bottleneck of medical oxygen supply to hospitals, ITC is airfreighting 24 cryogenic ISO containers from Asian countries in collaboration with Linde India Ltd." the company's tweet read. To serve the national priority & Government’s effort in easing bottleneck of #medicaloxygen supply to hospitals, ITC is airfreighting 24 cryogenic ISO containers from Asian countries in collaboration with Linde India Ltd (1/2) @PMOIndia @nsitharaman @Piyu

  Punjab Kings (PBKS) returned to winning ways in the tournament after a victory over the Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 17 of the VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Friday. After the bowlers restricted MI to 131/6, a captain’s knock from KL Rahul guided PBKS to a 9-wicket victory. Chasing 132, the PBKS openers – Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul – got to a flier after Krunal Pandya was asked to bowl the second over with the new ball. PBKS skipper started the second over with two fours while Agarwal finished it with a remarkable extra-cover lofted shot for six. Rahul then pulled Bumrah in the next over for a six over fine-leg. Mayank smashed 12 runs off the fourth over by Trent Boult with a couple of fours and PBKS were on the move as they raced to 45/0 at the end of powerplay. The fifty-run partnership was up for the opening wicket and the chase was going smoothly for the PBKS. It was Rahul Chahar again who turned out to be the solution to MI’