Coronavirus

New Delhi: India’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka in June-July was Thursday called off for now due to the COVID-19 pandemic with both the Boards saying that the situation is not feasible for the games to go ahead. India were scheduled to play three ODIs...

London: A drug used to treat joint inflammation can be repurposed to treat patients with COVID-19. This has been said in a research study. The study says that the drug may lead to a new treatment option for the deadly COVID-19 disease. Opinions shared in...

London: England fast bowler James Anderson has praised the West Indies players for making a “scary decision” to travel to Britain for the three-Test cricket series during the coronavirus pandemic. While many islands on the Caribbean have been struck by fewer than 100 cases of...

New Delhi: Anti-viral drug ‘remdesivir’ and ‘tocilizumab’, an immunomodulator, are being considered for ‘restricted use’ on severely ill COVID-19 patients on ‘emergency and compassionate grounds’, according to revised clinical management guidelines to be released soon. The much-touted anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine will continue to be used...

Bhawanipatna: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik took to Twitter to praise the sarpanch of Gambhariguda panchayat under Koksara block in Kalahandi district.  Nandita Sahu, the sarpanch, has asked her son who returned from New Delhi to undergo quarantine at the centre created in Olama village by...

Beijing: China has reported 16 new coronavirus cases. Among them is the first confirmed coronavirus case in Beijing after 56 days, official media said Thursday. Infection hits Beijing A local case of COVID-19 in Beijing’s Xicheng district was confirmed Thursday. The capital had no new...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Thursday said that 72 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 72 persons, 17 are from Ganjam, nine from Sonepur, seven from Bolangir, six from Jagatsinghpur, five each from Cuttack, Kalahandi and...

Kolkata: Insisting that the COVID-19 crisis should be turned into an opportunity to create an ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that this is the time to make bold decisions and investments. He was addressing the 95th annual plenary session of the Indian...

Puri:  Students of Samanta Chandrasekhar Autonomous College (SCAC) in Puri submitted a Thursday a memorandum to the Higher Education Department protesting against the decision to hold the sixth semester exams. They sat on a demonstration outside the college gate here. The students said that holding...

New Delhi: The 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games will start a day later than scheduled, to allow athletes additional recovery time after the World Athletics Championship and avoid clash with semifinals of the UEFA Women’s Football Championships, the organisers announced Thursday. The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF)...