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Staggering amounts of fentanyl hit US streets as the DEA watched and took no action, records showDEA agents in New Mexico allegedly allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills onto streets between 2023-2025, prioritizing larger case...
On This Day, June 5: D-Day, Operation Blue Star, RFK assassination, AIDS epidemic, Marshall Plan and other key eventsOn This Day, June 5, history witnessed several defining moments across war, politics and social change. The date is associated with the D-D...
India is facing a data obesity epidemic—as storage in phones fails to keep up with people’s voracious appetite for visualsIndia’s growing use of smartphones, AI tools and social media is driving a surge in demand for digital storage, with experts warning of a “...
Trump administration lays off dozens of disease detectives and scientistsDozens of CDC employees, including top scientists, “disease detectives,” and the entire Washington office, were notified Friday that they w...
Seven dead, 150 sick due to diarrhoea, water-borne diseases in MP's Mandla districtIn Madhya Pradesh's Mandla district, seven individuals, including five women and a child, have passed away due to diarrhoea and water-borne...
China’s Beijing records spike in Covid cases, daily life disrupted as streets left emptyMalls in Beijing are left empty, streets are vacant, and people are avoiding each other, but this is not because the city is in lockdown mo...
Trivitron develops kit for detection of Monkeypox virus"As a responsible MedTech product manufacturer, we feel that the current situation calls for immediate measures to stop the viral spread. I...
Centre, states took multiple legislative steps to prevent spread of virus in 2020, says reportSeveral states, including Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Punjab and Telangana issued Covid-19 regulations for the prevention of the...
Uttarakhand: Private hospital 'hides' 65 COVID patients' deaths from authorities, probe onCabinet Minister and state government spokesman Subodh Uniyal said the matter is being probed and appropriate legal action will be taken ag...
Amendments to Disaster Management Act may retain NEC led by Union Home SecyThe proposal to amend the Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is likely to be introduced in the upcoming session of Parliament, startin...
UK lowers threat level as cases decreaseThe UK's Joint Biosecurity Center has recommended that the country move from the second-highest level, 4 - meaning transmission is high or ...
China may be hit by second wave of coronavirus in November: Chinese expertAs of Wednesday, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in China reached 82,341. Altogether 3,342 people have died of the disease, ac...
Offices in Gurgaon advised by government to allow work from homeThis comes just after India's case count witnessed a steep rise- reaching 137, with Maharashtra becoming the epicentre.
Delhi authorities get power to seal areas over Covid-19The regulations give officials the power to take “coercive action” against any person if he refuses to “cooperate” with the authorities. “A...
The 123-year-old law that India may invoke to counter coronavirusFollowing the World Health Organisation's far-reaching announcement, the Union cabinet secretary yesterday said all states and Union Territ...
Chinese telcos take precautionary measures to keep employees safeThe Chinese company which has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru amongst other cities in India said it has quarantined all Chinese emp...
Why all novel coronavirus cases so far are from KeralaFrom immigration officials and police to panchayats and local level health volunteers, the system put in place following the Nipah scare of...
Tobacco use on decline but governments must intensify action: WHOThis number is projected to rise to 5 billion, or 81 per cent of the projected 6.1 billion by 2025 if the current pace of tobacco cessation...
Efforts on to strengthen NCDC: GovernmentBefore the onset of monsoon, spraying and fogging is carried out, he said, adding total eradication could not take place despite various ef...
- WHO warns of epidemic in Iraq
With over 7,000 cases of acute diarrhoea have so far been reported in northern Iraq, a UN health agency has said that there was an urgent n...