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Startup community stares at fund crunch in absence of venture capital, reinvents businesses to survive economic slowdown. (AFP Photo)

Start-ups get creative as coronavirus crisis fuels funding crunch,...

A group of the top venture firms warned startups this month that it will be very difficult to raise financing anytime...

11 May 2020 9:31 AM GMT

Health workers wearing protective suits screen resident of Kumbharwada during a house-to-house health survey, after detection of some COVID-19 positive cases, during the nationwide lockdown, at Dharavi in Mumbai. PTI photo

Covid-19 pandemic: Maharashtra records highest single day jump in...

Notably, although the cases are rising, the mortality rate in Maharashtra is dipping.

2 May 2020 4:02 AM GMT

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AIIMS to start human trials of Covaxin today

The Ethics Committee had raised few concerns in the protocol submitted for carrying out of the trial, according to Dr...

20 July 2020 6:50 AM GMT

Phase II human trial of Oxford vaccine begins in Pune. A scientist works over an experimental coronavirus vaccine in a laboratory. (AFP Photo)

Serum Institute begins phase 2 clinical trial of Oxford COVID vaccine

In all 25 candidates will given the vaccine in the next seven days, according to Dr Lalwani

26 Aug 2020 11:31 AM GMT

Former Prez Pranab Mukherjee tests positive for COVID-19. (PTI Photo)

Former President Pranab Mukherjee tests positive for COVID-19

On a visit to the hospital for a separate procedure, I have tested positive for COVID19 today, he tweeted

10 Aug 2020 8:27 AM GMT

Residents were shocked to find a newborn girl abandoned in a cesspit of a public toilet (Photo: AFP)

UN sounds alarm on South Asia child deaths due to COVID-19

The report said that even where health services were not shut down, the number of people visiting them declined

17 March 2021 7:41 AM GMT

Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at Parwati Ghat as coronavirus cases surge in Jamshedpur, Monday, May 10, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Ashwani Kumar | Amid grief as Covid surges, India needs divine mercy!

Wailing mothers, grieving children and the helplessness of marginalised people mock our politics

12 May 2021 6:30 PM GMT

The likelihood of most neurological and psychiatric diagnoses after COVID-19 was lower in children than in adults. (Twitter)

Covid patients at increased risk of psychiatric conditions after two...

Increased risk of depression and anxiety in adults lasts less than two months, says study

18 Aug 2022 3:45 AM GMT

New Zealands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks to media in Wellington, New Zealand on February 15, 2021. (AP/Nick Perry)

New Zealand ends snap virus lockdown in largest city

New Zealand has been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic, with just 26 deaths in a population of five...

17 Feb 2021 7:07 AM GMT

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Humans responsible spread of coronavirus and other zoonoses

It is human activity that enabled the virus to jump to people, and specialists warn that if nothing changes many other...

21 April 2020 6:18 AM GMT

President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo)

Coronavirus: Trump says US has 'passed the peak', vows to reopen...

A bullish Trump told reporters his "aggressive strategy" against the virus was working.

16 April 2020 5:07 AM GMT

A Montefiore Medical Center employee walks past signs thanking the medical staff in New York. AFP photo

Covid-19 pandemic: New York's death toll crosses 10,000 mark

The New York governor also slams Trump for claiming he has total authority to reopen economy.

15 April 2020 6:04 AM GMT