Alarmed at China’s stranglehold over supplies of masks, gowns, test kits and other front-line weapons for battling the coronavirus, countries around the world have set up their own factories to ...

A national scientific body on Sunday warned that shortcuts in vaccine development could compromise scientific rigour, amid public concerns that Indian researchers are under pressure to produce a vacci...

Susan Miller, a leading astrologer in the United States of America, had predicted in January that 2020 would “be a great... and... prosperous year,” going on to add that Capricorn would be...

The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has decided to widen the area of a containment zone from a single building to a few houses adjacent to the building where someone has tested positive for Covid-19. ...

The Odisha government on Thursday decided to restrict the entry of visitors to the Lok Seva Bhavan (state secretariat) and other important government buildings like the Krushi Bhavan till July 31. Th...

Bengal on Thursday went past the landmark of total 5 lakh Covid-19 tests with 10,405 tests in 24 hours and became the seventh state to reach the figure. It took 44 days for Bengal to attain the tally...

Dozens of clinical trials registered on an American database and listing India among their sites for enrolment of patients are missing from India’s own database of trials, a study has revealed, ...

Do you need better sleep? Then get a partner. New research says that when happy couples sleep together, they tend to have more — and less disrupted — rapid eye movement or REM sleep. This ...

India will prioritise healthcare workers and vulnerable people to be among the earliest recipients of any vaccines against the coronavirus disease, officials said on Tuesday. Vaccines would also be ma...

The government has permitted shipment of personal protection equipment (PPE) medical coveralls for Covid-19, partially relaxing the export norms with a monthly quota of 50 lakh units. The product was ...