Covid keeps coming back, but is it something to worry about? (IANS Column)

Dr. Randeep Guleria | December 31, 2023 10:00 AM

New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Covid is now a viral infection and is caused by a virus which has now become endemic. Like influenza, the Covid-19 virus will continue to survive and there will be small spikes in the number of cases whenever there is a mutation in the virus which gives it a property of being more transmissible. Therefore, the virus will continue to be present in humans and we will have to continue to live with Covid.

Telangana ministers visit damaged barrage of Kaleshwaram project

IANS | December 29, 2023 9:11 PM

Hyderabad, Dec 29 (IANS) Five ministers of Telangana's new Congress-led government on Friday inspected Medigadda barrage, a few of whose piers sunk recently, and alleged that their suspicions about Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project have proved to be correct.

AAP seeks probe into Maha top ex-bureaucrat's abrupt exit from govt

IANS | December 29, 2023 8:53 PM

Mumbai, Dec 29 (IANS) The Mumbai unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday demanded a probe into the circumstances leading to the sudden resignation of former bureaucrat Radheshyam Mopalwar from his current position as the Director of the War Room-Infrastructure Projects, of the Maharashtra government.