COVID-19 Pandemic
- Hyderabad
Serial fraudster targeting women with fake Mudra loans held in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: A 34-year-old, involved in several Mudra loan fraud cases across Hyderabad, was arrested Task Force from the Central Zone Team on Sunday. Shaik Jani from originally from Nakrekal village in Nalgonda…
- India
Apprise about compliance of 2021 verdict on migrant workers: SC to Centre
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to file an affidavit giving details about compliance of its 2021 judgement and subsequent directions on providing ration cards and other welfare…
- Technology
77 per cent of Indian firms witness surge in frauds due to Covid-19 pandemic
New Delhi: About 50 per cent of Indian organisations encountered one or more fraud incidents during and after the pandemic, with a substantial majority (77 per cent) perceiving a noticeable increase in…
- Featured News
Voters’ enthusiasm is less this time than in the mid-Corona election in five states 3 years ago
As the voters’ turnout in the first phase of polling for 102 seats this time is lower than that of five state assemblies which went to poll at the height of second…
- India
‘Non-govt’ PM CARES Fund uses govt resources, website domain
The Central government has on several occasions maintained that the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) is a non-government entity. However, several instances highlight how…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: ‘Unexplained’ salary cuts leave TIMS nurses distressed
Hyderabad: As many as 250 nurses who were deployed in 2020 as frontline workers against the COVID-19 pandemic now find themselves in distress with unexplained salary deductions. The nurses who usually draw…
- Health
UK expert warns of pandemic worse than Covid in new book
New Delhi: The former chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce Kate Bingham has in a new book warned of a next pandemic that could come from a million unknown viruses and kill…
- Health
1 in 3 long Covid patients may face multiple organ damage: Lancet
London: Nearly a third of patients showed abnormalities in multiple organs, particularly in the lungs, brain and kidneys, five months after Covid-19 infection, revealed a study looking at the longer-term impact of…
- World
2 new studies suggest BA.2.86 less immune-evasive than feared
New York: Amid fresh concerns of Covid-19 due to the new highly mutant Omicron sub variant BA.2.86, two new studies from the US have confirmed that it is less contagious as well…
- World
Fresh Covid wave in US worse than what official data suggests: Report
New York: Rates of severe Covid disease may be staying at relatively low levels in the US, but experts agree that there are probably more infections than the current surveillance systems can…
- Health
This is how coronavirus jump from species to species
New Delhi: Throughout the pandemic, there has been much discussion of how Covid-19 infiltrates cells by hijacking a protein called ACE2 found on human cells. However, new research has revealed that ACE2…
