The world is scrambling to find a vaccine against the Coronavirus which has brought normal life to a standstill for over two months now. According to the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, there are 78 anti-COVID-19 vaccines under various stages of development across the world, including six by Indian […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government will now hold officers on duty responsible for any violation of the lockdown guidelines in their respective areas, and will also take strict action against them under the Disaster Management Act, ThePrint has learnt. A Ministry of Home Affairs official said the government is monitoring the situation across the states, […]
Seven leading Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on Thursday announced that they will boycott the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2020 as they are not satisfied with the transparency of the process. These seven institutes are IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee. “The seven […]
As the country continues its battle against the coronavirus, China, the world’s main supplier of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, has sent some poor quality kits to India, which were found to be unusable as they faled the safety tests, The Econmic Times reported on Thursday. However, the ones which failed the quality checks, were […]
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tracker Live Updates: The number of coronavirus cases in India rose to 12,380 on Thursday, including 10,477 active cases, 414 deaths and 1,488 recoveries. Maharashtra is the worst-hit state with over 3,000 cases now and 295 deaths. The government has identified 170 districts across the country as COVID-19 ‘hotspots’ or ‘red zones’, and another 207 districts as […]
In an effort to engage the school children in constructive activities during the ongoing lockdown amid deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, the J&K State Legal Services Authority in collaboration with Directorate of School Education Jammu (DSEJ) is organising online activities for the students under the theme “Activity Karo Na”. Different activities will be organised for […]
New Delhi Two of the three Indian manufacturers of antibody-based Rapid Test Kits (RTKs) for Covid-19 have begun production after the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), the national regulatory body for pharmaceuticals and medical devices, issued manufacturing licenses. The move comes at a time when the RTKs that the Indian government ordered from China […]
The incident of humans contracting coronavirus from bats is an extremely rare event, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said, adding that a Chinese research showed that the Sars-CoV-2 virus which has causes Covid-19 in humans is in a mutated form. “Coronavirus is found in bats. We have come to know from the research […]
There is a piece of good news for the Indian economy which is battling the COVID-19 and its aftereffects of gloomy scenario. India is likely to have a normal monsoon this year, the country’s weather department said on Wednesday. Monsoon rains are expected to be 100 per cent of a long-term average, M. Rajeevan, secretary […]
As Delhi’s coronavirus cases climbed to over 1,500, the state government on Wednesday announced that plasma enrichment technique would now be used to treat severely-ill COVID-19 patients on trial basis at a government hospital. Last week, Kerala became the first state to receive ICMR approval for exploring the feasibility of convalescent plasma transfusion. Lt Governor Anil Baijal advised healthcare workers to […]