India has been grappling to contain the Covid-19 infection spread for almost seven months now. On Friday, the country recorded Covid-19 caseload reduced below the 6 lakh mark after 85 days. The active positive cases tally was 5.94 lakh on Friday, less than the 5.96 lakh mark on August 6. The Union Health Ministry issued ...

India crossed the 8 million mark in terms of coronavirus infection cases across the country, becoming second to United States, which is leading the global toll with 8.7 million confirmed cases. Amid the staggering surge in India’s Covid-19 cases, the health ministry held media briefing confirming that the ‘slide in active cases is supplemented by ...

As cinema halls and multiplexes have started reopening across the country after seven months of lockdown, the South Indian film industry is preparing to release a number of big-budget multilingual movies to draw audiences to the theatres. These films will be made on budgets of over Rs 200 crore each and in a number of ...

Loss of sense of smell, a symptom of Coronavirus infection, can now be effectively and quickly measured by a novel method that has been developed by IISER, Pune researchers. Team led by Dr. Nixon Abraham from IISER’s Department of Biology, a custom built olfactory action meter was used to identify people with coronavirus infection showcasing ...

India’s Union Health Ministry has started the work on liquid oxygen import in order to prepare for the anticipated oxygen shortage in upcoming winter months. It is expected that the country might witness a surge in Covid-19 cases during winter season. On Wednesday, HLL Lifecare Limited, a public sector undertaking, on behalf of Heath Ministry ...

COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the crisis of child labour in India, with several underprivileged families forced to push their children into menial jobs to meet ends. India has the largest child population in the world with 472 million children living across all parts of the nation. With the COVID-19 outbreak starting to spread across India ...

On Thursday the World Bank said that it is expected of India’s GDP to contract by 9.6% this fiscal. The drop is said to be a showcase of nationwide lockdown and income shrinkage experienced in India due to Covi-19. This puts India’s economic condition the worst ever experienced. South Asia Economic Focus report was released ...

After months of hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to take the skies with three rocket launches in the next few months. According to an ISRO senior official, the space agency is preparing three rockets for launch at its Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-Shar) in Sriharikota, ...

 On Friday India crossed the mark of 1 lakh deaths due to coronavirus infection, a day after the global index reached 1 million mark. Breaking the equation down, it means that India now accounts for 10% deaths of Covid-19 related deaths of world. India is on number three with maximum deaths globally after United States ...

On Wednesday, Indian government introduced new guidelines called Unlock 5.0 to selectively reopen schools, colleges. multiplexes, theme parks, and swimming pools depending on the infection rate in a state. The Ministry of Home Affairs specified that the new guidelines of limited relaxations would be applicable from Oct. 15 and only in non- containment zones. Ministry ...