Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced Monday a special assessment scheme for Class X and XII board exams for next year in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the process the CBSE has split the academic session into two terms. The...

New Delhi: India’s technology platform for Covid-19 vaccination – CoWin – is being made open source and soon it will be available to all countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday. He asserted that India has been committed to sharing its expertise and resources with...

Chandigarh: Vitamin D, which is primarily related to bone and mineral metabolism, has shown promising results in COVID-19 treatment, said doctors of the PGI Hospital here Monday. But they warned against the use of its high doses, especially injectable preparations, to prevent the virus. Summarising...

New Delhi: A month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the cancellation of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) exams for class 12 students this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Monday said that those students who were not...

New Delhi: Celebrated boxer MC Mary Kom and men’s hockey team skipper Manpreet Singh will be India’s flag bearers at opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics the IOA said in a release Monday. It also informed that wrestler Bajrang Punia will be the flag bearer...

Mumbai: Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has died. This was confirmed by an official of a hospital where he was being treated. The official informed Monday the Bombay High Court regarding the death of Stan Swamy. Swamy, 84,...

New Delhi: The national capital reported 94 new Covid cases and seven deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Delhi government's daily health bulletin Sunday. The daily Covid positivity rate stood at 0.13 per cent, it said. A total of 111 persons recovered...

Amaravati: Covid-19 claimed 29 more lives in Andhra Pradesh during the last 24 hours ending 10 a.m. Sunday. The state registered 3,175 new Covid cases during the same period. According to the daily media bulletin issued by the state command control room, a total of...

Mumbai: Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan took to social media Sunday to share a poem urging his fans and followers to take precaution against coronavirus amid the ongoing pandemic. Big B took to Twitter to share the poem written in Hindi. The poem reads: "Suno suno...

New Delhi: India saw a single-day rise of 43,071 Covid-19 infections, which took the tally of cases to 3,05,45,433, while active cases have declined to 4,85,350, according to Union health ministry data updated Sunday. The death toll has climbed to 4,02,005 with 955 more fatalities,...