Kolkata Apr 23 PTI West Bengal on Saturday registered a COVID-19 death after a gap of 19 days raising the toll to 21201 the health department said in its bulletinAt least 31 fresh cases were recorded which pushed the tally to 2017971 it saidThirty-five more people have recuperated from the disease since Friday taking the total number of recoveries to 1996524Bengal currently has 246 active cases down from 251 on FridayAs many as 24985 681samples have been tested in the state thus far including 9532 since Friday the bulletin added PTI SCH RMS RMS

Guwahati Feb 18 PTI Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma urged leading industrialists and financiers in Mumbai to invest in diverse sectors in the state and assured them of total cooperation from the government in this regardHe held separate meetings with industry leaders at a roundtable organised by FICCI as well as with Tata Group and SRCC Childrens Hospital among others winding up his three-day visit to the financial capital of the country on FridayAs part of our initiatives to attract private investments into the state took part in a roundtable of ficciindia at Mumbai today which was attended by countrys several leading industrialists Sarma Tweeted after an interaction on ThursdayUrged them to take advantage of customisable industrial policy invest in Assam he addedEarlier on Thursday Sarma interacted with Tata Group Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran and other top office bearers of Tata Sons Tata Consumers TCS Tata Technologies Indian Hotel and Tata Motors at Bombay House Mumbai an official release said hereThe chief minister urged Tata Group to come forward for investment in Assam especially in health education green and renewable energy tourism and hospitality sectorHe assured that the state government will provide all necessary support including certain policy changes and capital subsidy to make the state a preferred investment destination of the countrySarma also held a meeting with Tata Trusts Vice-Chairman Vijay Singh CEO Srinath Narasimhan and Board of Trustees and reviewed the progress of construction works of State Cancer Institutes under Assam Cancer Care FoundationOut of 17 Cancer Institutes seven are targeted to be inaugurated in April 2022The Assam government and Tata Trust are collaborating for setting up Cancer Care Units in the state with the foundation for the project laid in June 2018Tata Trusts had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Assam government during the Advantage Assam - Global Investment Summit 2018 held in February that year giving a formal shape to the projectIn the meeting Sarma urged Tata Trusts to engage a team to study the basic requirements for establishment of a proposed South Asian Cancer Institute in AssamThe chief minister also met Subramanian Ramadorai former Vice-Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services and Chairman Indian Institute of Information Technology IIIT GuwahatiHe discussed several issues with Ramadorai related to TCS TISS IIIT-G etc to bring more excellence in Assams education sector adopting new ideas and technologySarma also had a discussion with SRCC Childrens Hospital Facility Director Rupesh R Choubey regarding strengthening paediatric healthcare facilities in AssamHe invited the hospital to work together in functioning of new Super Speciality Hospital in Guwahati especially in Paediatric Neurology and Paediatric Cardiac Surgery sectorThe chief minister directed the MD National Health Mission Assam to draft an MoU in this regardSarma met Anita Rajan Chief Executive Officer of Tata STRIVE a skill development initiative of Tata Trusts at Taj Chambers MumbaiHe sought cooperation of Tata STRIVE for Project Arohan a four years mentorship programme of the Government of Assam for meritorious studentsApart from some other suggestions Sarma urged the CEO to add the component of soft skills development for students in Project ArohanHe also held a meeting with Dr Shalini Bharat Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences TISS at the same venue and discussed several issues pertaining to strengthening the infrastructure and academic activities of TISS Guwahati campusThe chief minister also held a virtual meeting with Dr Milind V Kirtane a renowned ENT specialist regarding strengthening the ENT treatment facilities in AssamHe urged Dr Kirtane to initiate a training programme from April this year to develop a team of specialists in Assam the statement added PTI SSG RG RG

New Delhi Jan 21 PTI Delhi logged 10756 Covid cases in a single day and 38 more fatalities due to the infection while the positivity rate declined to 1804 per cent according to data shared by the city health department on FridayAs many as 434 people have succumbed to the disease so far in JanuaryAccording to officials 59629 Covid tests were conducted on Thursday as against 57290 a day agoDelhi on Thursday reported 12306 Covid cases and 43 fatalities while the positivity rate was 2148 per centOn Wednesday the city had logged 35 deaths and 13785 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 2386 per centIt had recorded 28867 Covid cases last Thursday the sharpest single-day spike since the beginning of the pandemic The number then declined to 24383 on Friday 20718 on Saturday 18286 on Sunday 12527 on Monday and 11684 on TuesdayThe positivity rate stood at 306 per cent on Saturday the highest in the ongoing wave of the pandemic so far 279 per cent on Sunday 28 per cent on Monday and 225 per cent on TuesdayThere are 15557 beds for Covid patients in Delhi hospitals and 2656 1707 per cent of them are occupied A total of 2656 Covid patients are in hospitals and 156 of them are on ventilator support the health department bulletin statedOf the 61954 active Covid cases in Delhi 48356 are recovering in home isolation it saidSince last week Health Minister Satyendar Jain has been saying that hospital admissions have stabilised in the national capital and the third wave has plateauedThe Delhi government on Thursday capped the rate of conventional RT-PCR tests in private hospitals and laboratories at Rs 300 reducing the price by 40 per cent according to an orderEarlier the test used to cost Rs 500Rapid antigen tests at private facilities will cost Rs 100 the order statedEarlier it used to cost Rs 300 PTI SLB ANB ANB

New Delhi Oct 29 PTI To protect its catering and ticketing arm and after taking stock of market sentiments the Railways has decided to reverse its decision demanding 50 per cent revenue share from convenience fee from bookings on the IRCTC website sources said on FridayAs reported by PTI the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation IRCTC in a regulatory filing on Thursday had said that it will share the revenue earned from convenience fee collected by it in the ratio of 5050 with effect from November 1Shares of IRCTC plunged 25 per cent to Rs 685 apiece in Fridays opening deals a day after the Railways decision to ask for the revenue sharing arrangementThe Railway Board has decided to reverse its decision given the market sentiment and also the fact that the IRCTC revenues have suffered a lot during the lockdown Also the view was that the revenue earned by the Railways through this arrangement was not worth the losses suffered by IRCTC a top source told PTIConvenience fee charged from customers generated sizable revenue for both IRCTC and the Railways In 2014-15 when the revenue sharing was 20-80 the catering arm received majority of the Rs 253 crore revenue The following year the revenue generated from this was Rs 552 crore with a 50-50 share arrangement In 2016-17 with a similar revenue sharing model the fee generated Rs 362 crore as earning for the IRCTC-Railway combine However convenience fee was discontinued thereafter and the duo did not earn any revenue from it till 2019 The IRCTC began charging the fee again during the coronavirus crisis mainly to boost its revenues during the slowdown The Railways however gave up its share In 2019-20 IRCTC earned Rs 352 crore from convenience fee while in 2020-21 it earned Rs 299 croreTill August this year the IRCTC had earned Rs 224 croreThe convenience fee is not part of the rail fare It is for the service offered by IRCTC of booking a ticket on the web PTI ASG RHL

New Delhi Sep 17 PTI The stock of coronavirus vaccine in the national capital will last for another eight days according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi government on FridayAs on Friday morning 187440doses of Covaxin and 1202280 jabs of Covishield were left in stock it saidIn all the Delhi government has received 15314150 vaccine doses till date of which 3428360doses were of Covaxin and the remaining were Covishield it saidThe city has administered 15626888 vaccine doses including those given at private facilities of which 11004212 were first doses and 4622676 second jabs On Thursday 136083 vaccine doses were administered Of these 77807 were first doses and 58276 were second ones the bulletin said Delhis current vaccination capacity is 221883doses per day it added PTI TRS TRS TDS TDS

New Delhi Sep 17 PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday on FridayAs Prime Minister Modi turned 71 several dignitaries and politicians greeted himHappy birthday Modi ji Gandhi tweetedBorn in Gujarat in 1950 Modi joined Hindutva organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS at an early age and was later drafted into the BJP PTI ASK ANB ANB

Kolkata Kolkata Municipal Corporation KMC will provide both first and second dose vaccine from its urban primary health centres UPHCs and mega centres from Monday onwardsThe first dose will be provided from 10 am till 3 pm while the second dose will be administered from 3 pm to 4 pmThe Kolkata civic body last week had scheduled second dose vaccination on Monday Wednesday and Friday while first dose shots were scheduled to be administered on Tuesday Thursday and FridayAs per vaccination figures on the days scheduled for second dose the number of vaccine recipients was almost half than the recipients of the first dose on their scheduled daysThe second dose of over 1 lakh people is pending as per records of Kolkata Municipal Corporation