Category: Breaking News

In order to strengthen the Government of India’s efforts to reduce COVID-19 mortality, AIIMS New Delhi has started a video-consultation program with ICU doctors across the country called e-ICU on 8th July, 2020. The program aims at holding case-management discussions among doctors who are at the frontline in treating COVID-19 patients in hospitals and COVID facilities around the country. Physicians who manage COVID-19 patients including those in the ICUs can raise queries, present their experience and share knowledge with other physicians and experts from AIIMS, New Delhi on this video…

MP Governor and Political heavyweight Lalji Tandon breathed his last today. He was 85. His son Ashutosh Tandon, announced his death on Twitter with the message “babuji nahi rahe (my father has passed away)”.   Tandon had been hospitalised in Lucknow in June with breathing problems, difficulty in urination and fever. He was put on ventilator support on June 11. Medanta Hospital, where he was admitted, said at the time his condition was “serious”. Tandon, the Governor of Madhya Pradesh and a veteran leader, died at a hospital early on…

Russian prosecutors have announced that they were conducting an inspection of a facility supposed to treat acid runoff from an abandoned Urals mine after photographs emerged of streams running orange. Last week, a drone footage uploaded by an Instagram travel blogger showed a bright-orange landscape near the disused copper-sulphide mine close to the village of Lyovikha in the Urals.   Marina Kanatova, the prosecutors’ spokeswoman, said  that the Nizhny Tagil district prosecutors office has begun to check the facility treating the waste waters from Levikhinsky mine. She also said that…

Serum Institute, who recently got the DCGI approval to manufacture its indigenously developed pneumococcal vaccine, has joined hands with AstraZeneca to support in developing the potential COVID-19 vaccine candidate ChAdOx1 nCoV-19. The CEO of Serum Adar Poonawala believes that the vaccine to fight global pandemic will take a long time to reach all. Scientists, doctors, researchers, healthcare experts, and pharmaceutical companies across the world are racing against time to develop a vaccine for COVID-18 as infections cross 14 million. According to reports, the University of Oxford might have a breakthrough…

Vidhya Veerappan, the daughter of forest brigand Veerappan, who was killed by police in 2004, is now a 29-year-old law graduate who runs a “school for kids” in Krishnagiri  and the new Vice-President of the BJP’s Tamil Nadu youth wing.   For Vidhya, it’s about “social service”. “I don’t relate to any particular community, I believe in humanity,” she says. Vidhya came to know about her appointment through a Facebook post by the state party leadership. And almost immediately, the talk was all about her father.   “I had seen…

A newly constructed bridge collapsed in the district of Gopalganj in Bihar. The bridge was inaugurated by CM Nitish Kumar on June 15 and aimed at helping the general public. But the bridge collapsed after rains and a little flood. The public is furious over the bad construction and quality of work and call for an answer from the Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. The incident has brought out the debate on the bad construction of work as well as poor quality of work assessment to bad contractors. The CM has…

Deteriorating job prospects and rising anxieties about personal finances drove a record drop in global consumer confidence in the second quarter of 2020, according to The Conference Board® Global Consumer Confidence Survey.   Conducted in collaboration with Nielsen, the survey found that overall global consumer confidence fell to 92 in the second quarter from a near-historic high of 106 early in the first quarter, before the pandemic significantly expanded beyond China.* A reading below 100 is considered negative, indicating that consumers were slightly more pessimistic than optimistic globally for the first time since 2016.…

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Minister of State (HRD) Sanjay Dhotre launched a low-cost Covid-19 test developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT) Delhi on Wednesday.   The test, Corosure, has been billed as the most affordable probe free RT-PCR based Covid-19 diagnostic kit. The minister on Tuesday took to Twitter and announced that the kit will be launched on Wednesday.   “In line with the Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi ji’s vision, I along with MoS for HRD Shri @SanjayDhotreMP will be e-launching the…

The Trump administration has agreed to rescind its July 6 rule, which temporarily barred international students from staying in the United States unless they attend at least one in-person course, a federal district court judge said on Tuesday.   The U-turn by the Trump administration comes following a nationwide outrage against its July 6 order and a series of lawsuits filed by a large number of educational institutions, led by the prestigious Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seeking a permanent injunctive relief to bar the Department of Homeland…

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, on Monday announced a formal rejection of “most” of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea.   “The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire. America stands with our Southeast Asian allies and partners in protecting their sovereign rights to offshore resources, consistent with their rights and obligations under international law”, Pompeo said in a statement.   He further added he wanted to make clear that China’s “campaign of bullying to control” the disputed…