Sir — It is now a truth universally acknowledged that Indians are masters of ‘jugaad’ — resourcefulness that helps people overcome adversities by coming up with innovative solu...

India’s health research agency has asked doctors in 12 hospitals to “fast-track” clinical trials on a candidate vaccine against Covid-19 with the “target” of making it av...

Masks, gloves and other shields used by people who have not tested positive for Covid-19 or are not home quarantined should be kept aside for 72 hours and then thrown with other waste, a guideline by ...

  The Regional Medical Research Centre in Assam's Dibrugarh has become the fourth laboratory in the country to successfully isolate SARS-CoV-2 virus that can be used for the production of a ...

The Centre on Wednesday asked states and Union Territories to ramp up testing for the coronavirus disease by allowing private medical practitioners to prescribe the test days after it said symptomatic...

Long before every amateur photographer started to inundate social media with colourful shots of birds, Sen Gupta used to roam around Santiniketan, Calcutta’s Salt Lake and the sprawling mango or...

India’s health ministry on Saturday approved for the treatment of Covid-19 an inexpensive steroid called dexamethasone, which a UK study has found to reduce the risk of death among patients with...

India’s department of health research has validated a new test for the novel coronavirus infection that yields results within 30 minutes at the point of care and could be used to scale up testing of...

India on Sunday recorded 11,929 new coronavirus patients, touching a fresh overnight high amid a chorus of calls to health authorities to acknowledge and address community transmission of the virus wh...

India may face a shortage of intensive care unit beds and ventilators for Covid-19 patients for about four months from mid-November even with strong protective public health measures, a government-sup...