Month: August 2020

With more than 9 lakh tests in last 24 hour, India tests nearly 3.9 crore

India’s crosses another milestone- Total Recoveries cross 2.5 million The gap between Active and Recovered cases reaches nearly 18 lakh open view news desk NEW DELHI, AUGUST 27: India strategic approach for COVID-19 response and management- “TEST TRACK TREAT”- emphasises the key principle of high level of testing […]

78 New Routes Approved Under UDAN 4.0

766 Routes Sanctioned so far under the Scheme Major Boost to Connectivity in North East, Hilly States and Islands New Routes Connect Agatti, Kavaratti and Minicoy Islands in Lakshadweep open view news desk NEW DELHI, AUGUST 27: 278 new routes under the 4th round of Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)- […]

All India Impact based Severe Weather Warning

Heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls at isolated places very likely over East Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh Heavy rainfall at isolated places over Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, North Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam & Meghalaya, Coastal Andhra Pradesh & […]

Vaccine trial: Vital signs of volunteers normal, says doctor

Pune, Aug 27: Vital health parameters of the two volunteers, who have been administered the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate at a medical college here as part of the phase II clinical trial, are normal, a senior official from the medical facility said on Thursday. Two men, aged 32 […]

Delay in JEE, NEET will lead to ‘zero year’; quick alternatives can have cascading effects: IIT heads

New Delhi, Aug 27:  Further delay in conducting medical and engineering entrance exams NEET and JEE will lead to a ‘zero academic year’ and any quick alternative to the crucial exams will dilute the quality of education and have cascading effects, according to Directors of several Indian Institutes […]

Trump’s convention gives platform to some with fringe views

WASHINGTON — An advocate of “household voting” in which husbands get the final say. A woman who has argued that school sex ed programs are “grooming” children to be sexualized by predators like Jeffrey Epstein. A candidate who has peddled in racist tropes and bizarre QAnon conspiracy theories. President Donald […]

Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane

GALVESTON, Texas — Hurricane Laura rapidly gained strength on Wednesday, forecast to become a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane before striking the Texas and Louisiana coasts with wind and water now swirling over much of the Gulf of Mexico. Satellite images show Laura’s remarkable intensification into “a formidable hurricane” […]

India to hold national college tests despite surging virus infections

MUMBAI – More than 2 million Indian students will sit for admission tests to medical and engineering schools next week, the government said on Wednesday, despite growing concern that the move could fuel a jump in coronavirus infections. India reported more than 60,000 infections, maintaining the world’s highest […]

How India’s Silicon Valley saw its COVID-19 success come undone

BENGALURU, India – On June 9, an Indian health education minister posted an infographic on Twitter showing COVID-19 infections and deaths in the city of Bengaluru were running about half the rate in New Zealand, a country acclaimed globally for reining in the disease. The city — which […]

PIB’S DAILY BULLETIN ON COVID-19

PIB’S DAILY BULLETIN ON COVID-19 (Contains Press releases concerning Covid-19, issued in last 24 hours, inputs from PIB Field Offices and Fact checks undertaken by PIB) As Recoveries in India grow, difference with Active Cases widens, Recovered Patients are 3.5 times the Active Cases The number of recoveries […]

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