Coronavirus

Mumbai: After sport stars, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has roped in Hindi film industry megastar Amitabh Bachchan for customer awareness campaign. The face of Amitabh Bachchan will ask gullible account holders to remain cautious and prevent getting duped by fraudsters. As part of...

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has paid tributes to the legendary SP Balasubrahmanyam. Amitabh Bachchan has called the late singer a modest man despite towering achievements. Balasubrahmanyam, 74, died Friday after an over two month-long battle with coronavirus. Bachchan in a blog written Saturday praised Balasubrahmanyam....

Bhubaneswar: As many as 317 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) limits in last 24 hours, BMC said Sunday. While 62 of them are quarantine cases, remaining 255 are local contact ones. Meanwhile, 312 persons who earlier tested positive for the...

Bargarh: COVID-19 tally in Bargarh district moved past 6,000 mark Sunday with 154 fresh cases. The district’s total cases have increased to 6,098. Bargarh is reporting over one hundred cases every day for the last couple of days. While this has been a cause of...

Angul: In its fight against coronavirus, Angul district administration has started swab testing businessmen in the town including those on footpaths. That said, the drive seems doomed to fail as some businessmen are avoiding getting tested. Angul district has been reporting hundred plus fresh cases...

Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti has tested positive for the Coronavirus. She is in quarantine at Vande Mataram Kunj located between Haridwar and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand. Bharti herself gave this information on Twitter. "I want to bring it in your notice, that...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 3,922 persons tested positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 2,09,374, state Information and Public Relation Department said Sunday. Out of new coronavirus cases, 2,309 were reported from quarantine centres...

New Delhi:  India's COVID-19 caseload neared 60 lakh with 88,600 fresh infections being reported Sunday, while the number of people having recuperated from the disease crossed 49 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 82.46 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. The total coronavirus...

Bengaluru:  A start-up incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Equine Biotech, has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit for accurate and affordable diagnosis of Covid-19. "The biggest advantage of Equine Biotech's 'Global TM diagnostic kit' is that it takes just around one-and-half hours...

Moscow/New Delhi:  The number of Covid-19 cases have surged to more than 32.4 million or 0.4 per cent of the Earth's total population - meaning nearly every 250th person has already contracted coronavirus. The current world population is 7.8 billion (as of September 2020), according...