The BMC said on Tuesday that all laboratories, including private ones, were free to conduct RT-PCR (real-time polymerase chain reaction) tests on any individual in accordance with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines without prescription from a doctor, including for home testing.

The first 100-bed community Covid care centre was opened on July 2 in Katargam, a diamond polishing hub and now a hotspot for Covid-19 which has reported nearly 1,200 positive cases so far.

Experts said that these conditions, which are essential to the clinical trial, “will result” in the trial taking longer than ICMR's unrealistic timeframe. The SEC set no deadlines.

The order states that children in classes 1-5 will get 8 kg of ration and Rs 358 via DBT, calculated on a daily rate of 100g and Rs 4.48 for 80 days.

Unlike the more expensive private schools, low-cost schools operate with little financial cushioning, with almost all of them depending on the tuition fee they charge to run their operations

The resignation of Prof Kang, the first Indian woman scientist to be elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), London, came around two months after a committee to look into indigenous Covid-19 drugs and vaccines that she headed, was disbanded.

As the India and China start repeating the disengagement process, the Indian side is doubly cautious in its insistence on verifying every single step in detail before moving to the next step.

According to a senior Army officer, the Chinese military camp at PP14 in Galwan Valley, reconstructed at the site of the June 15 clashes in which 20 Indian Army personnel were killed, has been completely dismantled and all tents have been uprooted. Troops and material have been taken back in vehicles.

Ahmedabad recorded 177 new cases, including 162 from municipal corporation areas and 15 from the district, taking the total number of cases in the city  to 21,892. Eight deaths were also reported from Ahmedabad.

Lakhs of skilled migrants who returned to West Bengal during the lockdown and Unlock 1 are desperate to go back to the lives and livelihoods they had to leave behind virtually overnight.

Mishra was among eight police personnel killed in Bikru village of Kanpur district Friday, when they were ambushed during a raid to capture gangster Dubey and his associates.

A Home Ministry official said that a timeline of about 10 days had been drawn keeping in mind what can be achieved each day with targets defined every three to five days.

On May 11, OIL obtained environment clearance from the Centre for drilling seven wells inside Dibru Saikhowa using the sub-surface Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) technology from three existing wells (Baghjan 3, 5 and 11) adjacent to the park.

Beijing made this claim while objecting to a request to develop the Sakteng wildlife sanctuary in eastern Bhutan’s Trashigang district at an online meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Set up in 1992, GEF is a US-based global body to finance projects in the environment sector.

The Council and the Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences cautioned against rushing into “any hasty solution that may compromise rigorous scientific processes and standards”.

For the last four days, India has been adding more than 20,000 cases every day. On Sunday, close to 24,000 new cases were detected throughout the country.

“I will send criminals like Vikas Dubey where they belong,” the B.Sc final-year student said, her eyes red with grief and anger. Her 18-year-old sister Vaishardi, a Class 12 student, wants to qualify for the Civil Services.

From multiple retakes to spending hours on research; from “reviewing” phone calls with students to recording late sessions at home, teachers in rural Goa, like many of their peers across the country, are going beyond the line of duty to engage with students during the pandemic.

JSW Sports, the sports arm of the business conglomerate JSW Group, is, along with the GMR Group, the joint owner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Delhi Capitals.

In December 2019, Union Home Minister Amit Shah had informed Parliament that the government was looking at necessary amendments in IPC and CrPC to deal with issues related to mob lynching, as members of Parliament called for a separate law to curb it.

Admitting that they are probing if Vikas Dubey was tipped off about the raid, Inspector General (IG), Kanpur Range, Mohit Agarwal told The Sunday Express that Dubey’s men were well-prepared for the police team “and  the informant could be from the police itself”

As part of the Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovate Challenge, the Central government has identified sub-categories for developers to build apps.

In a statement issued Saturday, ICMR said: “The aim is to complete these phases at the earliest, so that population-based trials for efficacy could be initiated without delay.”

This is the first time since the resumption of domestic flights on May 25 that a state has decided to completely curtail incoming flight movements to manage the spread of Covid-19 .