Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has made another significant contribution in India’s fight against COVID-19. Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a laboratory of...

New Delhi: Chemists in the country are annoyed. The government has not accepted their request to be treated as frontline workers for priority in vaccination. So now, they have threatened...

New Delhi: Five pharmaceutical companies have got the go-ahead to manufacture the anti-fungal drug Amphotericin B, used to treat mucormycosis or black fungus. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI)...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Friday said the number of COVID-19 positive cases as well as deaths have gone up in the second wave due to increased corona testing. Talking...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started a movement called Young Warrior. The movement entails engaging 5 million young people to lead action against COVID-19 with...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday revealed that around half of the country’s population does not wear a mask. Only 14 percent of the population wears the mask...

Uttarakhand: Environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna, the man behind Chipko Movement, died on Friday at the age of 94. He was admitted to AIIMS Rishikesh on May 8 for treatment of COVID-19....

Bhubaneswar: The Women and Child Development and Mission Shakti department has launched 24×7 helpline to provide emergency service and counselling for children either orphaned due to COVID-19 or those whose...

Bhubaneswar: At least 96 prisoners and jail staffers have tested COVID positive at Jharpada jail in Bhubaneswar. The jail authorities informed that the swab samples of 195 persons were collected...

New Delhi: Barely a day after recording less than 4000 deaths, India’s COVID-19 casualties soared to a grim 4,209, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Friday. However,...