A goods train ran over migrant labourers sleeping on railway tracks in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad on Friday morning. Sixteen labourers, who had started out on foot…
UNICEF is calling for support to unlock a massive backlog in vaccine shipments due to unprecedented logistical constraints related to COVID-19 mitigation measures including lockdowns…
The US government’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, has backed a randomized, placebo-controlled study of Gilead Sciences Inc.’s antiviral drug, remdesivir, to treat patients…
Scientists across the world are engaged in developing a coronavirus vaccine. Oxford’s Jenner Institute, which has successfully tested the vaccine on monkeys, is currently leading…
The 40-day-long lockdown has broken the backs of industries and businesses in the country, even as concerns about the future grow and the economic crisis…
There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) protects people against infection with COVID-19 virus, according to a WHO scientific report. Two clinical trials…
Thursday marks 100 days since the World Health Organisation was notified of the first cases of “pneumonia with unknown cause” in China.
"It’s incredible to…
Fourteen people died in two separate road accidents on Sunday. The first accident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district and the second incident is…
Twenty-one people died after a bus and auto-rickshaw rammed into each other and fell into a well in Maharashtra's Nashik. The incident is from Malegaon in Nashik district, where…