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[ad_1] By Anirban Nag and Vrishti Beniwal On the night of 12 May, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the nation of 1.3 billion people abuzz with promises to unleash a massive stimulus to prop up an economy that faces its worst recession in decades. A week later, and after five …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has started taking the destination address of all passengers booking train tickets from Wednesday, which can be helpful in contact tracing, if required later. This will be a permanent feature for rail travel as India gets ready for a long battle against Covid-19. The railway …

[ad_1] On April 7, exactly four weeks after the first Covid-19 case was detected in Maharashtra on March 9, the count crossed 1000 to 1018. That day, the death toll in the state was 64 (India’s overall toll was 160 that day), and the mortality rate stood at 6.29% (more …

[ad_1] UK PM Boris Johnson. (File photo: PTI) LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson you have warned that a mass vaccine for the novel coronavirus may be over a year away and, in the worst-case scenario, may in fact never be found. In his foreword to the government’s new 50-page …

[ad_1] As India attempts to emerge from the various stages of lockdown in an attempt to flatten the COVID curve, there is a renewed push to get the citizens to download and install the Aarogya Setu app on their smartphones. Official numbers suggest that the Aarogya Setu app has been …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In order to keep a closer watch on the prevalence and spread of Covid-19 in the country, the health ministry has initiated a facility-based surveillance in all districts and a more focused population-based “sero-survey” of high – and low-risk groups in select districts. The surveillance will be …

[ad_1] Image use for representative purpose BENGALURU: As many as 326 people stuck in London due to the Covid-19 lockdown arrived at the Kempegowda International Airport here in the early hours of Monday. After their arrival by an Air India evacuation flight at 4.45 am, a team of corona warriors …

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Union health minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that he does not anticipate a “very worst type of situation” in India like in many developed countries due to Covid-19 pandemic, but the government has made adequate preparations. Holding a review meeting to take stock of the the …

[ad_1] By Ateesh Tankha Beyond the volumes of cash that developers were able to attract time and again in their bid to become the next unicorn, India’s ecommerce and fintech startup ecosystem employed five lakh direct and 16 lakh indirect personnel by 2019, numbers that were slated to triple by …

[ad_1] The growing US death toll is already more than 70,000 – by far the highest globally – while Britain’s rose to 32,000, putting it above Italy in the grim ranking of national fatalities. Elsewhere in Europe, hard-hit Italy, Spain and France have reported a leveling off of figures, offering …