National College Tests To Be Held Despite Surging Virus Infections
More than 2 million Indian students will sit for admission tests to medical and engineering schools next week, the government...
COVID-19 pandemic
India Set To Mass Produce COVID-19 Vaccine: Modi
India is ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his...
Surviving India’s Worst Plane Crash In 10 years
Seated on the last row of the plane, Muhammed Junaid sensed something was amiss when Air India Express flight IX...
Japan To Mark 75 Years Since Hiroshima, Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
Thursday marks 75 years since the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima,...
“Covid-19 Virus Has Been Circulating In Bats For Decades”
An international team of researchers has discovered that the lineage that gave rise to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that is...
Travel Bans Cannot Be Indefinite: WHO
Bans on international travel cannot stay in place indefinitely, and countries are going to have to do more to reduce...
Covid-19 Cost Jobs At A Third Of Small Firms Open In May
One small firm in three around the world was obliged to cut jobs to stay open through the coronavirus pandemic...
Amid Pandemic, Atrocities Against Dalits See A Rise
The Centre and states need to step up to clamp down on rising atrocities against Dalits amid the Covid-19 pandemic,...
CAA Protests: UN Experts Seek Release Of Activists
In a statement published on June 26, several experts from the United Nations have called upon India to immediately release...
Dalits Call For Centuries Of Oppression To Be Acknowledged
Spurred on by the anti-racism protests in the United States, Dalits (a marginalised community once referred to as "untouchables") have...
How A Mosquito Spit Vaccine Could Stop The Next Epidemic
Five years ago, in an office complex with a giant sculpture of a mosquito just northwest of Phnom Penh, Jessica...
People In Wuhan Fear Covid-19 Testing Could Rekindle Disease
As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the...
Ease Lockdowns Slowly, Be Ready For Virus To Jump Back: WHO
Countries must lift lockdowns gradually, while still being “on the look-out” for COVID-19 and ready to restore restrictions if the...
Covid-19: UN Chief Salutes India for Helping Others
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres salutes countries helping others in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, his spokesman has said,...
Virus Fallout Inflames Divisions Among Communities
The purple ink stamped on Iqbal Hussain Siddiqui’s hand by health workers was supposed to ensure he stayed home under...
“Terrorists May See Window Of Opportunity”: UN Chief
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a "window" into how a bio-terrorist attack might unfold across the world, UN chief Antonio...
Covid-19 Crisis Could Plunge Half A Billion Into Poverty: Oxfam
The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the...
Explainer: Do Men Fare Worse With COVID-19?
Death and infection tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic spreading around the world point to men being more likely than women...
“Solidarity With India, Lockdown Comprehensive, Robust”: UN
The UN has expressed solidarity with India in its fight against coronavirus, with a top official at the world body's...
“India Led World In Eradicating 2 Pandemics, Should Show The Way”: WHO
The executive director of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Michael J Ryan, on Tuesday said that India has a tremendous...
