Supply Snags In Race For Affordable Ventilators
Indian medical device makers, racing to churn out ventilators as domestic COVID-19 cases spike, have been beset by supply bottlenecks,...
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Coronavirus Antibody Tests Paused After Questions Over Reliability
India has ordered a pause in testing for antibodies to the coronavirus because of concern over accuracy, health officials said...
Coronavirus Cases In India Near 20,000
With 1,383 fresh coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours, the total number of cases in India has gone...
Asia Pivots Towards Plants As Covid-19 Stirs Meat Safety Fears
Demand for plant-based protein foods is surging in Asia, suppliers say, as suspicion over possible links between wild animal meat...
Rashtrapati Bhavan Isolates 500 Over Virus Scare
About 500 people entered self-isolation in staff quarters of the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Tuesday, as the coronavirus spreading through South...
WHO Warns Lifting Of Lockdowns Must Be Gradual
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that any lifting of lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus...
Covid-19 To Impoverish Millions Of Children In Middle East
Millions of children in the Middle East will become poorer as their caregivers lose jobs from lockdowns aimed at stemming...
US Crude Oil Price Goes Negative For 1st Time In History
US oil prices crashed to unprecedented lows on Monday as futures in New York ended in negative territory for the...
Police Target Journalists In Kashmir For Alleged ‘Fake News’
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir are investigating two journalists for allegedly spreading “fake news,” authorities said on Monday, as a months-long...
India Restarts Factories, Farming In Rural Areas
Some shops and businesses opened in rural India on Monday as part of a staggered exit from a weeks-long lockdown...
DGCA Tells Airlines Not To Take Bookings
India’s aviation regulator has told airlines not to take bookings as the government has not yet decided when to recommence...
At least 16 Killed In Shooting Rampage In Canada
A gunman who drove a mock-up police car killed at least 16 people in a shooting rampage, federal police said...
Covid-19: Maharashtra To Allow Some Economic Activity
Maharashtra, India’s largest regional economy, will allow a limited number of sectors to resume business on Monday, after a weeks-long...
Lockdown Cuts Fuel Demand By 50% In 1st Half Of April
Indian state retailers sold 50% less refined fuel in the first two weeks of April than the same time a...
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,...
Covid-19: Fishermen Dock After Weeks At Sea
Hundreds of exhausted Indian fishermen, who said they were refused entry at two ports after a nationwide lockdown was imposed...
South Asia Coronavirus Cases Hit 22,000
The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Friday, driven by a...
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...
FB To Notify Users Who Have Engaged With Harmful COVID-19 Posts
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would start notifying users who had engaged with false posts about COVID-19 which could...
India Battles To Keep Virus Out Of Mumbai’s Slums
In an air-conditioned government building in Mumbai, a dozen officials are glued to a giant screen showing live drone and...
Hit By Sharp Ad Decline, Newspapers Cut Jobs & Salaries
India’s vibrant newspaper industry, that reaches tens of millions of readers daily, has been ravaged by declining advertising revenues due...
Covid-19: Culpable Homicide Charges On TJ Leader
India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding...
NHRC Pulls Up Home Ministry on Police Conduct
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has pulled up the Home Ministry on the conduct of police personnel during the...
Covid-19: 12,380 Cases In India, 414 Deaths
On Day 2 of Lockdown 2.0, the total number of coronavrius cases in India has gone up to 12380 as...
WHO Regrets Trump Funding Halt
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday he regrets U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull...
