New Delhi: In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre has allowed companies to use till September their inventories of packaging materials or wrappers with pre-printed manufacturing date. However, manufacturers...

Cape Town: One of the hard lessons the World Health Organization learned during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was this: Other diseases can be forgotten and take a deadlier...

New Delhi: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to give three months' immunity from prosecution or other punitive action to all employers of child labourers...

New Delhi: Around 9.45 lakh people are being monitored under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) and upon detection of COVID-19 symptoms, samples are taken from them for testing, the...

New Delhi: In the biggest spike in coronavirus infection on a single day, India on Friday recorded 1,752 fresh cases taking the total number of infected people to 23,452 even...

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday extended the partial lockdown imposed in the country by another two weeks as the number of people affected by the deadly virus rose to over 11,000....

Washington: President Donald Trump has suggested the possibility of studying injecting disinfectants into COVID-19 patients or bringing UV light "inside" their bodies to kill the deadly virus, drawing immediate flak...

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday said azan may be carried out in accordance with the National Green Tribunal guidelines and urged people to follow the lockdown norms during the...

New Delhi: The Centre on Friday said the COVID-19 situation is especially serious in major or emerging hotspot areas including Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad and Chennai. In a statement, the Home...

New Delhi: The trajectory of COVID-19 cases could have plateaued and might even fall for some weeks after the lockdown is lifted but India is likely to see a second...