New Delhi: Over 50 per cent non-STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students in India who planned to study abroad have dropped their plans due to the restrictions in various countries in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) report has said. Titled Indian Students Mobility Report 2020, the report released this week said 47.38 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked US President Donald Trump for his decision of donating ventilators to India and said that this step gives more power to the friendship between India and US. “Thank you @POTUS @realDonaldTrump. This pandemic is being fought collectively by all of us. In such times, it’s always important for nations to work together and do […]
At least 24 migrant workers were killed and 37 injured in an accident that took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Auraiya district around 2.30 am on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences over the incident and said the government is engaged in providing relief to the kin of deceased. Auraiya Additional Superintendent of Police Kamlesh Kumar […]
India has registered another 103 deaths due to novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,752, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday morning. The country also saw a spike of 3,970 COVID-19 cases during the same period, the ministry said, adding the total number of people suffering […]
The Allahabad High Court has held that azaan, or the Islamic call to ritual prayer, can be recited by a muezzin from minarets of the mosques by human voice only without using any amplifying device or loudspeakers. The court added that such recitation by human voice cannot be hindered under the pretext of violation of the […]
A Lt Colonel and a soldier of the Indian Army were killed in an avalanche in the mountainous Lugnak La region of north Sikkim on Thursday, officials said. The two personnel were part of an 18-member group which came under the avalanche, they said. “A patrolling-cum-snow clearance party came under avalanche in North Sikkim on […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is leading a study to determine whether the ayurvedic herb ashwagandha could be an alternative to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a potential Covid preventive. The study is being carried out by a group of scientists and researchers from the Ministry of Ayush (ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, unani, siddha and sowa rigpa, and homoeopathy), Ministry […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a Rs 3.16 lakh crore package of free foodgrains for migrant workers, concessional credit to farmers and working capital loan for street vendors as part of the second tranche of fiscal stimulus to heal an economy hit hard by coronavirus lockdown. At a news conference, Sitharaman said 8 […]
India is working on four formulations of traditional medicine to treat the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 infection and the trials will start within one week, the Minister of AYUSH said on Thursday. Shripad Y Naik, the Union minister of AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha and homeopathy), tweeted saying that the ministry is working with the Council […]
The total number of coronavirus positive cases in India reached 78,003 on Thursday, after a jump of 3,722 cases in the last 24 hours. One hundred thirty four people died due to the disease in 24 hours (between Wednesday and Thursday). According to the Union health ministry update at 8 am, the death toll due […]