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 […]
Deaths in Gujarat, Rajasthan; 3,374 COVID-19 cases, toll at 77 in India
Seventy-seven people have died across India after being infected, while the number of positive cases stands rose to 3,374, Health Ministry said on Sunday. Over 33 per cent of the cases have been linked to a religious gathering of the Tablighi Jamaat at Delhi’s Nizamuddin Markaz last month, the Health Ministry said, adding that these positive patients are spread across 17 […]
‘Mamata is misleading people and lying’ — opposition alleges suppression of Covid-19 data
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has come under fire from the opposition over allegations of suppression of official data regarding the Covid-19 infected patients in the state. The opposition alleges this a ploy to mislead the people into believing that Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee has controlled the infection and death rates in the state as elections […]
Indian Muslims Must Organise Themselves Politically, But Not On Religious Lines
The rejoinder by Nissam Syed to my article on the political options for Indian Muslims is a classic case of either willful distortion and misinterpretation or blissful incomprehension. His belaboured thesis aims to rubbish my alleged argument that “the only option left for Indian Muslims is to organize themselves politically on religious lines.” The fact of the matter is […]
India newborn twins named Corona and Covid after virus
A couple in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh have named their newborn twins Corona and Covid amid the country’s nationwide lockdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The twins, a boy and a girl, were born at a government hospital in the state capital Raipur on March 27, two days after the lockdown came into […]
