Virus Scare

Bhubaneswar: Soon after the Centre asked the states to declare black fungus as an epidemic, the Odisha government issued a notice in this regard by including it as a notifiable disease...

New Delhi: To ensure safety and well-being of athletes and support staff in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports announced that Sports Authority of...

Patna: Amid concerns over rising cases of Mucormycosis or black fungus in COVID-19 recovered patients, four cases of  a deadlier ‘white fungus’ have been reported in Patna, Bihar. One of...

New Delhi: Amid the rising cases of mucormycosis (black fungus) reported in various parts of the country, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday directed all states to declare it as...

Chandigarh: Sporting legend Milkha Singh has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in home isolation. The 88-year-old ‘Flying Sikh’, an Asian Games and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist who missed an Olympic...

Bhubaneswar: With the south-west monsoon set to enter the South Andaman Sea & adjoining Southeast Bay of Bengal during the next 24 hours, there will be a change in weather...

Belagavi: Two months after the first-phase clinical trials of the country's second indigenously-developed COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, were conducted on 20 children between the age of 12 and 18 years, none...

New Delhi: A self-use Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) for COVID-19 made by Pune-based startup MyLab Discovery Solutions has been approved in India. Named CoviSelf, the test kit will have testing...

Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to cancel some more MEMU and passenger trains in its jurisdiction. The cancellations are in line with the Odisha government’s guidelines against COVID-19...

Paris: While millions are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 globally, vaccine makers are earning billions thanks to their “monopoly control” on the technology. According to a campaign group, profits from COVID...