Muslim IAS-IPS officers’ Covid-19 appeal to community: Don’t give anyone reason to blame you
New Delhi: Nearly 80 serving and retired IAS, IPS and IFS officers belonging to the Islamic faith have appealed to the Muslim community to adhere to social distancing norms, and not give anyone the opportunity to accuse it of spreading Covid-19 in India. The officers’ appeal comes in the light of the Tablighi Jamaat event at […]
India bans export of hydroxychloroquine but Trump is counting on Modi for urgent supply
New Delhi: India has imposed a blanket ban on the export of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) that has caught the world’s attention as a possible cure to the novel coronavirus Covid-19, even as US President Donald Trump has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an urgent supply of the drug. The drug has been touted as a […]
No Evidence Of Coronavirus Being Airborne Yet, Says ICMR
The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) on Sunday said there is no evidence as of now that Coronavirus was airborne. “We need to understand that in science whoever does experiments, there will be different opinions, but we need to take a balanced, evidence-based approach,” an ICMR official said. “For example, if it was an […]
Pak-backed terror module in Afghanistan that targeted India busted, 37 arrested
Afghan security forces have arrested 37 members of the so-called Islamic State Khorasan Province terrorist module that had targeted a Kabul gurdwara last month. The arrests were made in the last 24 hours after Afghan forces caught Aslam Farooqui, the Pakistani national who led the terror group ISKP known to have strong links with Pakistan’s ISI that carries […]
Coronavirus shatters study abroad dreams of many as they look for Plan B
With an acceptance letter from Australia’s Deakin University, 21-year-old Triptha Luthra was on cloud nine a month back but is now glued to following news updates from across the globe about the coronavirus pandemic as uncertainty surrounds her study abroad dream. For Anoushka Ray, who had plans to go to New York for the session beginning in […]
For 9-min lights-off today, power sector switched on high alert
THE nine-minute ‘lights-off’ exercise scheduled for Sunday evening, as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to people across the country, has forced the grid operator to initiate an elaborate set of contingency measures to avert any crisis caused by the sudden massive load reduction quickly followed by a sharp increase. These measures include tapering thermal output and increasing generation […]
The four stages of Covid-19 transmission & why India maintains it is not yet in stage 3
Bengaluru: The Indian authorities continue to maintain that the country still has not reached stage 3 or community transmission phase of the novel coronavirus, despite a steady climb in the numbers of positive cases. On Friday, Tamil Nadu officials also reiterated that there is no evidence of community transmission in the state. Community transmission occurs when the […]
Coronavirus Live Updates: India Sees 302 New Cases In 12 Hrs; Fresh Deaths In Tamil Nadu, Gujarat
The number of novel coronavirus cases in India crossed the 3,000-mark on Saturday after 525 fresh infections, the highest in a 24-hour period, were reported across the country. The death toll, as of Saturday, stood at 86, according to Worldometer. According to Home Ministery, the number of COVID-19 positive cases in India was 3,374. Sunday […]
Anti-parasitic drug kills coronavirus within 48 hours in lab grown cells: Study
Researchers have found that an anti-parasitic drug already available around the world can kill the novel coronavirus grown in cell cultures within 48 hours, an advance that may lead to the development and trial of a new clinical therapy for COVID-19. According to the study, published in the journal Antiviral Research, the drug, Ivermectin, stopped […]
Covid-19 update: New plan holds clues to unlocking country
A Union health ministry plan has outlined how regions — cities, villages or neighbourhoods — with large outbreaks or multiple clusters of the coronavirus disease Covid-19 could be walled in, charting out what may be the first official road map to keep the disease in check by focussing curbs and surveillance on hot spots while […]
