coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The National Institute of Virology, Pune has successfully developed the first indigenous anti-body detection kit for COVID-19. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan in a series of tweets on Sunday said the kit can test a large…

New-Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said that 12 states and Union territories, including Kerala, and Jammu Kashmir, have not reported any new case of coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours. Four states/UTs in the…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be discussing lockdown issues with Chief Ministers of all states at 3 pm on Monday via video conferencing. NDTV reported that many states have raised objections to the red, orange and green zone…

New Delhi: Five Air India pilots, some of whom were on a recent cargo trip to Guangzhou in China, have tested positive for coronavirus. Under the Vande Bharat initiative to bring back Indian citizens from around the world, Air India pilots…

Mumbai: The total number of cases in India jumped to 62,939 after more than 3,000 fresh new COVID-19 cases were detected in the past 24 hours. 19,357 have recovered so far and 2,109 have died. Over 15 lakh tests have been conducted in…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that testing capacity for novel coronavirus has been increased to around 95,000 tests per day in India. The minister informed that till Friday, 15,25,631 tests had been…

New Delhi: Japan wants the Indian government to grant permission to Japanese companies vis-à-vis resuming their operations in India. Japan’s foreign minister Motegi Toshimitsu conveyed the message to Indian external affairs minister S.…

Kochi: A non-bailable case has been filed against Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary in Kerala's Kozhikode for spreading religious hatred. During a programme aired on March 11, Chaudhary was seen describing different kinds of…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has extended the deadline for a special CBI court in Lucknow to deliver the verdict in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The top court had ordered the special judge to deliver the verdict within nine months on…

New Delhi: In a major boost to India’s fight against Covid-19, the Central government and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Friday signed a $500 million ‘Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project’.…