The Supreme Court on Monday granted national carrier Air India permission to operate non-scheduled international flights with middle seat occupied for the next 10 days till the current bookings are exhausted. The top court was hearing pleas by the Centre and Air India against a Bombay High Court order pertaining to circulars issued by the […]
New Delhi: The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is working on an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based diagnostic prototype for early detection of Covid-19 disease using chest X-rays. The innovative solution could help in early detection through remote diagnosis thereby facilitating timely isolation of patients and a treatment plan for their speed recovery, government officials familiar with the development […]
India will try to restart a good percentage of international passenger flights before August, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday, three days after announcing resumption of domestic flights from May 25. All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 25 when the Modi government imposed a lockdown to […]
With domestic flight operations set to resume on Monday, at least five states and one Union Territory have decided that incoming passengers would have to stay in home or institutional quarantine. The governments of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Assam, and the administration of Jammu and Kashmir have decided that arriving passengers will have […]
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the country’s apex body in the field, has found that consuming the drug hydroxychloroquine reduces the chances of getting infected with Covid-19. As a result, ICMR released an advisory Friday to expand the usage of HCQ — an anti-malarial drug — as a preventive treatment against the […]
In a country of over 1.15 lakh coronavirus infections, the serene and calm islands of the union territory (UT) of Lakshadweep remain an outlier with no positive cases so far. Nagaland and Sikkim are the two other Covid-free states. Health officials of the UT, whose 64,000 population is highly dependent on Kerala for their medical needs, […]
The government of India on Friday allowed certain categories of Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) card holders to travel to India. These include minor children born to Indian nationals abroad who hold OCI cards; those who want to travel for family emergencies and university students who are OCI card holders but whose parents are Indian […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday accused India of attempting to create an opportunity to conduct a false-flag operation against his country by alleging that Islamabad was supporting terrorism in Kashmir. Khan once again took to Twitter to allege that the Indian government was trying to deprive the Kashmiris of their right of self-determination […]
India recorded 5,242 Coronavirus positive cases in last 24 hours, the highest ever spike in a single day, Ministry of Health said on Monday. As many as 157 deaths related to the Covid-19 were also reported in last hours. With this steep jump, the total number of positive cases in India is now 96,169, including […]
Cyclone ‘Amphan’ is turning out to be of much greater magnitude than initially estimated. Originally assessed as an extremely severe cyclonic storm (ESCS), it is now showing signs of becoming a super cyclonic storm, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday morning. “The system turned into an extremely severe cyclonic storm at about 02.30 hours today. […]