Expressing hope that the world will have an anti-Covid-19 vaccine early next year, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has warned against focussing on the new coronavirus to the exclusion of other health services like child immunization.
Rao further said China has become jealous of the stable and strong governance in India which was emerging as a strong economic force.
Opposition parties have objected to the BMC order asking all laboratories in Mumbai to convey Covid-19 positive results only to the civic body, which would then convey the result to the patient.
The Union Health Ministry said all precautions must be taken while "living with the new normal" of COVID-19 as it stressed on strict adherence to physical distancing and use of face covers at public places by everyone while also following personal and soc...
Stall owners in Wuhan said they were not optimistic after their business was badly hurt by the strict shutdowns in China, which ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife in January.
The former JD(U) leader has also described the length of the 21-day lockdown "a bit too long" and took a dig at the government, saying this is the price one pays for "being behind the curve".
On Wednesday, at least 25 worshippers were killed and eight others injured when a heavily armed suicide bomber stormed his way into a prominent gurdwara in the heart of Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, in one of the deadliest attacks on the minority Sikh c...
The move comes three days after the Centre and the Assam government signed a peace accord with Bodo organisations with Union Home Minister Amit Shah stating that the agreement will usher in a 'golden future' for the state and its people.
According to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI), only around 4% of the billion strong population in India has insurance cover.
The Election Commission has said that over 90,000 security personnel will be deployed during the Delhi Assembly polls. There are around 1.47 crore voters in Delhi and the polling will be held at 13,750 polling booths.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said that he is worries about the 'deteriorating law and order situation' in Delhi and expressed hopes that peace should be restored quickly.
The amount collected by Delhi Police was deposited in the account of the Transport Department and the Delhi government.
Officials of the Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation on Friday said corporation authorities have visited a number of universities to study the modalities to be adopted for the proposed varsity.
Carter, 95, had been hospitalized at Emory University in Atlanta in the latest episode in a string of recent health scares for the nation's oldest living former president.
This was to be implemented by November 1 when the state celebrated Karanataka Rajyostava. However, the Bengaluru city Mayor Gautam Kumar gave an extension till November 30.
