Health

Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS, who are entirely dependent on life-saving drugs, claim that they are not facing any problems in getting their daily supply of essential medicines and monthly check-up...

The Athgaon Kabarstan Masjid here was sealed on Friday after three positive Covid-19 patients were found to have attended a religious function at the mosque with 100 others last month.After a person f...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday directed the deputy commissioner of South Salmara-Mankachar district to take immediate steps to check the movement of any person to the “no man’s ...

The education department has launched a distance learning programme in Assam Hailakandi’s district to aid academic activity after closure of schools owing to the lockdown.The information and communi...

Assam PCC president Ripun Bora on Friday wrote to governor Jagdish Mukhi urging him to take over the administration of the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) on expiry of its term on April 26.The five...

Two senior doctors from Calcutta reached Siliguri on Thursday on the instructions of chief minister Mamata Banerjee and held meetings with local health department officials to discuss ways to treat Co...

Jharkhand reported its first Covid-19 death on Thursday, and the total number of novel coronavirus cases jumped to 13. Five cases were detected at Hindpiri locality in Ranchi, and four new cases were ...

Over 300 contract sweepers of Bokaro General Hospital on Thursday expressed concern over their safety after a 75-year-old man died of Covid-19 at the hospital, becoming the state’s first victim of t...

The Kamrup (metro) district administration on Thursday requisitioned four buildings, including a hotel and three community units, for being upgraded as quarantine shelters for health officials in Guwa...

Extending the lockdown is the only way to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus in Jharkhand where four persons have tested positive so far, the medical fraternity told chief minister Hemant Soren ...