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New Delhi: An indigenous paper-strip COVID-19 diagnostic test, named after one of India’s most famous fictitious detectives 'FELUDA', recently received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India for a commercial rollout. This test…

Bhubaneswar: Sexting on smartphone apps is a universal phenomenon and India is no exception to this rule, finds a new study - 'Mobile sex-tech apps: How use differs across global areas of high and low gender equality'. The study was…

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The BJD has issued a three-line whip to its Rajya Sabha members to be present in the House for voting on three key agriculture sector Bills on Sunday. Notably, the three Bills — Farmers’ and Produce Trade and…

New Delhi: With the single-day surge of 92,605 COVID-19 cases, India’s affected tally went past 54-lakh mark to stand at 54,00,620 on Sunday. About 1,133 more patients succumbed to infection in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of…

Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is known as ‘Charsi’ on social media, stated that he doesn’t consider weed as a drug. According to a report in Hindustan Times, Anurag said in an interview to journalist Faye D’Souza that he…

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain said on Saturday that he feels community spread of coronavirus is taking place in the national capital as well as other parts of the country. Despite the fact that over 90,000 cases are being…

Mumbai: Amidst the hullabaloo over Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and Bollywood drug nexus, the Maharashtra government has issued a tender of Rs 5.43 crore for selecting an agency to handle Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's social media. The…

Pune: The Serum Institute of India (SII) will start the third and final phase of human trial of Oxford-Astrazeneca’s coronavirus vaccine at Pune’s Sasson General Hospital early next week. “The phase III trial of ‘Covishield’ vaccine will…

Haldwani: She is 17 years old, a state-level boxer and she is in a burqa. Rehnuma Mikrani of Nainital district is defying all odds to teach yoga to about 40 women of her community. Rehnuma's father drives an autorickshaw while her mother…

Common household fabrics used in homemade masks are more effective in blocking droplets generated by coughing and sneezing and are considerably protective even as a single layer, scientists have found, reported The New Indian Express…