Puja organisers are replanning their budgets as they will need about 500 litres of hand sanitisers for the four main days of Durga Puja. It means an additional expenditure of Rs 20,000 to Rs 40,000 de...

Hand sanitisers are highly inflammable because of the high alcohol content and can be a direct fire hazard when kept near puja pandals. The matter was discussed during the Durga Puja coordination mee...

The regulatory body for private hospitals on Monday asked a hospital to return the bulk of what it had charged a patient for thermal scanning and hand sanitiser at its OPD. The West Bengal Clinical E...

Over the last three months, mask and hand sanitiser have become our best friends. We haven’t stepped out of the house without these. Shopkeepers too, claim these to be top selling items and almo...

The Assam government’s appeal to business establishments to make arrangements for sanitising customers has failed to evoke the desired response.Few in the city are heeding the pleas or may be unawar...

Malls and shopping centres are about to reopen. When they do they are going to look something like this.Thermal checks at the entrance, sanitiser bottles right after, pared shelves, probably fewer opt...

A state-run pharmaceutical company in Kerala has swum against elementary business wisdom and shut down its sole retail outlet when it found that queues were growing longer for its affordable hand san...

The CBI has alerted the police and other law-enforcement agencies across the country about an Interpol input warning about racketeers selling fake hand sanitisers and scamming people by posing as supp...

With the demand for hand sanitizers rising in the wake of the coronavirus scare, the chemistry department of Manipur University has made 500 bottles of ethyl alcohol-based hand sanitizers.So many bott...

The Assam excise department’s decision to produce hand sanitisers readily available was inspired by Australian cricket legend Shane Warne’s initiative to produce hand sanitisers for hospitals.A st...