The Serum Institute of India which had paused the trials of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been allowed to restart them. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has allowed the Serum Institute of India (SII) to continue testing the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after it had been suspended on September 11, following an unexplained neurological illness in one ...

The FIDE Online Chess Olympiad that was held recently in August, brought a big relief to the situation of sports during the pandemic strict protocols. Vidit Gujrathi an Indian chess player, who is the third highest rated player in India, stated that he was very excited to captain the India team in the Olympiad, which ...

On Thursday, the International Monetary Fund held virtual discussion regarding the ongoing state of pandemic which it said was far from over. Closely observing the nations’ struggle with the Covid-19 amid the dwindling economy caused by global lockdown, IMF came to the aid of India, the second worst affected nation in the world, after US. ...

India reported 95,735 new coronavirus cases, verging close to crossing the one lakh-mark in the number of daily cases. Up until now, no nation has crossed or even reached this mark. India has seen in the course of recent weeks, a consistent spike in the number of Covid-19 cases reported in a single day. Meanwhile, ...

The Indian economy was already in awful shape, however, the flare-up of the pandemic has dived it further. The Reserve Bank of India’s committee report expressed that the pandemic “has impacted the best of businesses” and organizations that were generally better before the virus outbreak. Experts believe that banks might be more cautious about loan ...

The country is already reeling under a record number of infections which is spiralling at an alarming rate. This is only going to get worse with pollution. India is now the second-worst coronavirus affected country in the world, overtaking Brazil and only two million infections behind the number one spot. Even as the infections spiral ...

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected millions of lives across the world with health officials globally stressing the public to wear face masks or coverings to protect themselves and others from virus transmission. As the COVID-19 outbreak began around the world, demand for N95 masks also increased across all sections of society leading to a global ...

The coronavirus pandemic is enormously affecting the world economy. Its effect isn’t constrained to specific geography, religion, culture, or ethnicity, however, envelops pretty much every part of human life. The outbreak of the virus’ has influenced more than 180 nations over the globe, and in India, around 12 million will be pushed to the very ...

With the second-highest number of cases in the country, the southern state is embarking on an intensive new strategy for containment zones. In order to control the spread of the virus in the 34 most-affected wards in the capital city of Chennai, the health ministry and city corporation launched an intensive ‘micro plan’ spread over ...

At a video conference of the BRICS foreign ministers, a bloc of five leading countries, Foreign Minister C Jaishankar announced the need to take measures to support business in the context of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Minister noted that the BRICS countries (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) have a great influence on the ...