A survey of 350 Indian women entrepreneurs showed that more than half of them have made significant changes to their businesses due to the pandemic and more will follow. India has anywhere between 13.5 to 15.7 million women-owned businesses, which make up just 20% of the total number of enterprises in the country. Most are ...

A bottom-up strategy has helped the city municipality maintain their daily caseload and prevent it from spiralling. That the number of new cases in Chennai has hovered around 1,000 for several months now, instead of rising exponentially, is a testament to the municipality’s efforts in containing the virus. This has been attributed to a micromanagement ...

According to health experts, a huge scale of stubble burning could compound the Covid-19 crisis in northern states; particularly the Delhi-NCR area as it’s facing a smoky and hazy atmosphere every year winter. The Central Pollution Control Board is preparing to check on environmental pollution violators. Along with its new Micro Level Action Plan, the ...

On Monday, The Union Ministry of education announced a detailed SOP for resuming schools and universities in the nation. In unlock 5.0, the Centre has permitted universities and schools to reopen in a phased way, beginning from October 15. The states have the power to choose whether they need to reopen schools from the following ...

The union health ministry launched a website that will provide continually updated information on the status of vaccine development and trials in India. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced the launch of the ‘vaccine web portal’ and the ‘national clinical registry for COVID-19’, developed for the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The portal will ...

On Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi in a video conference urged the Chief Ministers of seven covid affected states’ to do a critical evaluation of the 1-2-day lockdowns that few other states have been implementing and the disadvantageous of this on economic activity. He stressed that the states should strengthen their contact tracing strategies to contain ...

As India lost thousands to the pandemic outbreak and many to hunger .caused by loss of job and loss of economic growth coupled, Congress MP Shahi Tharoor hit out at Narendra Modi led government in the Centre for its “utter mismanagement” of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. Referring to the country’s deteriorating growth and escalating virus ...

Feluda is an indigenous kit that utilizes CRISPR gene-editing technology to distinguish and find the genetic material of Sars-CoV2, which causes Coronavirus. It has been endorsed by the legislature of India.  Feluda (test kit) has been created by senior scientists Dr. Souvik Maiti and Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute ...

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 ...

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, ...