India's covid cases decline; 1,331 new infections reported in last 24 hours

Driven by plummeting numbers of COVID cases across the world post-pandemic, several vaccine manufacturers are dealing with a slump in vaccine demand. The low level of COVID cases is also encouraging the government to pause coming up with another booster dose. The falling demand for vaccines across western nations like the US, UK, etc, is a major concern for vaccine makers who are sitting over a large inventory of unused COVID vaccines.

New Delhi: India’s covid-19 cases have witnessed a notable drop, with 656 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, as per the health ministry data on Tuesday. The total number of active cases has dropped to 13,037, demonstrating a significant downturn in the pandemic’s trajectory in the country. Since the start of the pandemic three years ago, India has logged more than 44.9 million cases and witnessed 531,790 fatalities due to the virus.

Hoda Kotb, recently shared an uplifting update on her three-year-old daughter Hope's health, following a recent scare that saw the young child in intensive care. Speaking at the Webby Awards in New York, where she bagged the Best Interview/Talk Show Podcast for her series "Making Space with Hoda Kotb," the 58-year-old opened up about Hope's condition. "Hope's doing much better, much better," she told PEOPLE.

Noel Gallagher has suggested the Covid pandemic played a part in the end of his marriage. The 55-year-old rocker revealed earlier this year he and Sara MacDonald are divorcing after 22 years together but he doesn’t think the situation is particularly uncommon for people of their age. He told the Big Issue: “When you get to your mid-50s, you do come to some kind of crossroads in your life.

WestJet pilots on Monday issued a 72-hour strike notice to the airline’s management and the federal government, starting a final countdown for walkouts as contract talks drag on.

Three people were killed and two police officers were among at least seven people injured Monday when an 18-year-old opened fire in a northwestern New Mexico community before law enforcement fatally shot the suspect, authorities said.

SEA ISLE, N.J. - City leaders in a Jersey Shore town are cracking down on summertime rowdiness with a new curfew for teens and a late-night ban on backpacks for everyone. Residents in Sea Isle say they are fed up with the issues caused by rowdy teenagers along the Promenade, so starting Monday night, new regulations are in place to hopefully curb some of the beach-town chaos. "Unfortunately, kids are getting out of hand," said one resident. The noise, underage drinking, and the unruly packs of teenagers that flock the shore town are some of the issues that residents say are disrupting people's summer vacations. A citywide curfew prohibits kids under the age of 17 from walking the streets between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. through the summer, with some exceptions.

A 15-year-old boy is fighting for his life after police say he was shot in Hunting Park Monday night.  PHILADELPHIA - A 15-year-old boy is fighting for his life after police say he was shot in Hunting Park Monday night. Just after 7:30 p.m., police responded to reports of gunshots on the 100 block of West Wyoming Street.

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 16: Smoke escapes as a drone surveys the scene after a fire at Loafers Lodge on May 16, 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand. At least 10 people are dead and many more are unaccounted for after a blaze broke out at a four-sto WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A fire ripped through a hostel in New Zealand’s capital overnight, killing at least six people and forcing others to flee the four-story building in their pajamas in what a fire chief on Tuesday called his "worst nightmare."Fifty-two people in the Loafers Lodge Hostel in Wellington have been accounted for, but firefighters are still looking for others, said Wellington Fire and Emergency District Manager Nick Pyatt.

SAN FRANCISCO - The security guard who shot and killed alleged shoplifter Banko Brown outside a Walgreens in San Francisco will not be prosecuted, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told KTVU in a one-on-one interview on Monday. "We do not believe there is sufficient evidence to overcome what we would expect his defense of self-defense to be," Jenkins said. "[Anthony] has specifically articulated to the police, more than once, the facts surrounding the incident and explained that he believed he was in imminent danger, and at this time we don’t believe there is anything to overcome those statements." Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, 33, was working as a security guard for the Walgreens at 4th and Market Streets in San Francisco, when he shot and killed Brown, 24, on April 27 during an altercation in which Brown was allegedly shoplifting. In a surveillance video obtained by KTVU, Anthony can be seen trying to stop Brown as he tries to leave Walgreens with a bag of items. The video shows Anthony trying to stop Brown from exiting the store with a blue bag filled with items, and Brown pushing Anthony's shoulder first. Anthony then shoves back, the video shows, and the two began to physically struggle. The pair began to wrestle and Anthony brings Brown to the ground and applies what looks like a choke hold while on Brown's back, the video shows.

for an unknown “medical complication.”Foxx’s daughters, Corinne and Annalise — plus the latter’s mom, Kristin Grannis — were all in the Windy City over the weekend to spend time with the 55-year-old entertainer, TMZ reported on Monday. Annalise was spotted outside of a physical rehab center with her guitar, while Grannis was captured holding Mother’s Day flowers and a balloon.While the outlet did not name the specific rehab center where Foxx is reportedly staying, they did say that the facility specializes in stroke recovery, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and cancer rehabilitation.TMZ claimed a source told them that Foxx arrived at this Chicago facility in late April.

TRENTON - Firefighters in New Jersey's capital worked to extinguish a five-alarm inferno that torched an abandoned school Monday afternoon. Crews from the Trenton Fire Department were called to the intersection of Southard Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around 2:30 p.m. A tweet from Trenton Publics Schools said the fire engulfed the old Junior No.

FARMINGTON, N.M. - At least three people were dead and multiple others wounded Monday after a shooting in Farmington, New Mexico, police said, and schools citywide were put on lockdown."There are multiple civilian victims," Farmington police reported via Facebook, adding that one suspect "was confronted and killed on scene."Two officers were shot including a member of the city police and one with the New Mexico State Police, the message said. Both were reported to be in stable condition at San Juan Regional Medical Center."The suspect’s identity is unknown and there are no other known threats at this time," police said, adding that city, San Juan County and state police were involved.The shooting was reported shortly after 11 a.m.

FILE - A voting booth at the Gates of Heaven Synagogue on Nov. 8, 2022, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Deb Hope, a former anchor and reporter at Global BC, has died at the age of 67.

FILE - Martha Stewart attends the Z100s iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2022 Press Room at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 9, 2022, in New York City.

BERLIN (AP) - Two people were charged in Austria for allegedly playing speeches by Adolf Hitler via the loudspeaker system of a train running from Bregenz to Vienna, Austrian news agency APA reported Monday.The two suspects, who were not identified, also blasted the "Heil Hitler" Nazi salute via the train’s intercom several times on Sunday. The authorities tracked them down by analyzing video from the train cameras.

New Jersey shoreline.Spearheading the project is the conservation group American Littoral Society, which said the coconut fibers help create "living shorelines" that provide an alternative approach to seawalls, bulkheads and other structures traditionally used to stabilize land.The logs begin their lives in India and Indonesia, where coconut fibers are sourced and then transported to the Lower 48. In the U.S., the coconut fibers are then packed into logs and wrapped inside biodegradable netting.Coconut fiber logs.

COVID-19 rapid tests for free at their local pharmacies as of Monday.Those who are considered to be at high risk of complications from the disease — including immunocompromised and pregnant people — will still be able to pick up test kits at no additional cost until April 2024.Seniors, full-time students under the age of 25 and children who benefit from free medication under the province’s drug insurance plan will also still have access to free COVID-19 tests, according to the Health Ministry.The ministry, which announced the move in late March, cited the improving pandemic situation in Quebec as the reason for scaling back the program.Quebec’s pharmacists association, the Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires (AQPP), said those who do not meet the criteria for no-charge tests will still be able to buy kits in pharmacies.“Since the start of the program, Quebec pharmacies have distributed nearly 9,250,000 kits of self-administered tests,” AQPP president Benoit Morin said in a statement.In December 2021, the government announced that COVID-19 rapid tests would be made available to the general population through select pharmacies. People would have access to five free tests every 30 days.The Health Ministry says COVID-19 tests will continue to be distributed for free in schools and child-care centres.— with files from Global’s Felicia Parrillo and The Canadian Press

₹59 crore, registering a growth of 15.7 per cent, compared to ₹51.2 crore in the corresponding period last year. The company reported a total sales of ₹316.3 crore in the January-March quarter, reporting an increase of 21 per cent compared to ₹262.2 crore in the year-ago period. The company reported a total revenue of ₹321 crore, posting a growth of 19.8 per cent, compared to ₹268 crore in the same period last year.

TJ is pictured in a provided image. (Courtesy of Sesame Workshop.

Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corrine Foxx are set to host a new musical celebrity game show, We Are Family.

Jamie Foxx is gearing up to get back to work.Amid his recovery from an unspecified health crisis, the actor's next project has been announced. Jamie will co-host Fox's upcoming music competition series,, alongside his daughter, Corinne Foxx, the network announced on Monday. The show is set to debut in 2024. «We are thrilled to be developing We Are Family with Jeff Apploff and our friends at FOX Entertainment after so much success with six seasons of Beat Shazam,» Jamie and Corinne said in a statement announcing the news.

US President Joe Biden speaks during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Biden and congressional Republicans made little tangible progress Tuesday toward averting a first-ever US defau HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Democrat running for a vacant seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives received President Joe Biden's endorsement Monday in a race likely to determine control of the legislative chamber, with implications for abortion rights, the 2024 presidential contest and Gov.

Evergreen Plantation National Historic Landmark. Photo: Brian Davis, Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation A list of the most vulnerable historic buildings and places currently in the United States has been released. The National Trust for Historic Preservation shared the 11 most endangered historic sites in the country right now, along with the different threats these "treasures" across the country are facing.Some are individual buildings and some are entire neighborhoods, and they all face unique threats from extreme weather deterioration to modernized overdevelopment. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately-funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C.

FILE - A Credential Authentication Technology (CAT-2) identity verification machine is demonstrated to a member of the media at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington Airport (BWI) in Baltimore, Mar BALTIMORE - A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen. The screen flashes "Photo Complete" and the person walks through — all without having to hand over their identification to the TSA officer sitting behind the screen.It's all part of a pilot project by the Transportation Security Administration to assess the use of facial recognition technology at a number of airports across the country."What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say who you are," said Jason Lim, identity management capabilities manager, during a demonstration of the technology to reporters at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.RELATED: Lyft rolls out feature to make airport pickups fasterThe effort comes at a time when the use of various forms of technology to enhance security and streamline procedures is only increasing.

FILE - Mt Everest. (Photo by: Rahul Sharma/ INDIAPICTURE/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) KATHMANDU, Nepal - A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the 26th time, matching the record set by a fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.Pasang Dawa Sherpa reached the summit on Sunday morning along with a Hungarian climber, according to expedition organizer Imagine Nepal Treks.The season's first wave of climbers reached the summit this weekend as Sherpa guides fixed ropes and made paths for the hundreds of climbers who will attempt to scale the peak over the next few weeks.Since making his first successful of climb of the peak in 1998, Dawa has made the trip almost every year.Experienced mountain guide Kami Rita earlier held the record outright for the most climbs of Mount Everest after his 26th successful trip last year.

FILE - Two dogs enjoy outdoor dining at the Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts with their owners on Aug. 30, 2021.

PHILADELPHIA - FEBRUARY 23: The Philadelphia Inquirer Building is seen February 23, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, filed for bankruptcy pro PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Inquirer experienced the most significant disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the newspaper calls a cyberattack.The company was working to restore print operations after a cyber incursion that prevented the printing of the newspaper's Sunday print edition, the Inquirer reported on its website.The news operation's website was still operational Sunday, although updates were slower than normal, the Inquirer reported.Inquirer publisher Lisa Hughes said Sunday "we are currently unable to provide an exact time line" for full restoration of the paper's systems."We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding as we work to fully restore systems and complete this investigation as soon as possible," Hughes said in an email responding to questions from the paper's newsroom.The attack was first detected when employees on Saturday morning found the newspaper's content-management system was not working.The Inquirer "discovered anomalous activity on select computer systems and immediately took those systems off-line," Hughes said.The cyberattack has caused the largest disruption to publication of Pennsylvania’s largest news organization since a massive blizzard in January 1996, the Inquirer reported.The cyberattack precedes a mayoral primary election scheduled for Tuesday.

STAMFORD, Conn. - Connecticut state police are seeking witnesses as investigators try to determine the cause of a crash that killed four people on Interstate 95 in Stamford.All four victims were in an SUV that rear-ended a tractor-trailer that had slowed for heavy traffic in the northbound lanes shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, state police said.

New Delhi: India recorded 801 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a sharp decline from the previous count, the union health ministry data showed on Monday. The number of active cases have also declined to 14,493. In the last three years of the pandemic, India has reported to more than 44.9 million cases and 5,31, 778 covid related deaths.

President Joe Biden and congressional leaders will likely resume talks on Tuesday at the White House over the debt limit, the president said Sunday, as the nation continues to edge closer to its legal borrowing authority with no agreement in sight.The meeting was initially supposed to be Friday, but was abruptly postponed so staff-level talks could continue before Biden and the four congressional leaders huddled for a second time. Administration and congressional officials said Sunday that a meeting has not been finalized, although Tuesday was the likeliest option as Biden returns to Washington on Monday and is scheduled to leave for the Group of 7 summit in Japan on Wednesday.Biden did not detail much progress in the talks, but said he remained hopeful that an agreement could be reached with Republicans to avoid what would be an unprecedented debt default, which could trigger a financial catastrophe."I remain optimistic because I’m a congenital optimist," Biden told reporters while out for a bike ride in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

RELATED: Mother's Day: Celebrity moms and their superstar kids who have worked together in films and television"What do you like about mommy's uniform?" Chelsea continued. "It's really shiny," Brock answered. The interview was less than a minute and ended with a Happy Mother's Day message. Ryder’s said his favorite things to do with his mom are to "snuggle and go to the park and do movies."Storyful contributed to this report.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A 46-year-old man is dead after he was shot multiple times on a West Philadelphia street.16th Philadelphia Police District officers responded to the 4800 block of Wallace Street Saturday night, around 10:15, on the report of a person with a weapon, according to authorities.When they arrived, they discovered the victim on the street. He was shot in the back and abdomen several times.Police rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he died.Officials say no arrests have been made, but a weapon was found.

For many us, small tweaks to our everyday lives could help prevent many health issues and avoid visits to the GP - from switching to a healthier diet, changing up our workout routine or taking more vitamins.

Ja Morant #12 of the Memphis Grizzlies reacts against the Los Angeles Lakers during Game Five of the Western Conference First Round Playoffs at FedExForum on April 26, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images) Ja Morant was suspended by the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday after he appeared to be holding a gun in another social media video that was streamed live on Instagram.It’s the second time in less than three months that Morant was seen on Instagram holding what appeared to be a weapon.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - The city of Buffalo will pause Sunday to mark the passing of one year since a gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others in a racist attack that targeted Black people at a city supermarket.A moment of silence followed by the chiming of church bells at 2:28 p.m. will honor victims of the massacre at the Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022."The racially motivated mass shooting shook our community to its core.

New Delhi: Use of technology and digital health tools can help in achieving the universal health coverage, said the union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya, while addressing the G7 health ministerial meeting on health innovation in Nagasaki, Japan on Sunday.  The meeting was held to discuss the priorities, implementation and utilization of health innovations like digital health towards ensuring universal health coverage. Health Ministers of the G7 countries and invited “Outreach 4" countries of India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand participated in the meeting.  Mandaviya said, “Use of technology & digital health tools are an enabler and equalizer which can facilitate strengthened health service delivery.