Public health groups, along with economists and doctors, have urged the government to increase excise duty on all tobacco products in the U...

The quantum of decline in Covid-19 cases over the last one week is more than the fall in testing numbers indicating that the plateauing of ...

The data shows the number of cases declined steadily after peaking on September 1. The seven-day average of Covid-19 cases from August 25 t...

The key question is whether the state will be able to manage the number of cases which, so far, it has been able to. It was able to avoid t...

Despite halting all exports in April and benefiting from a huge vaccine producing industry, India has covered only 4 per cent of its vast p...

After a strict five-week lockdown, authorities in Delhi have fully re-opened shops and malls, and allowed restaurants to have 50% seating. ...

It has taken just 17 days for the daily case count to rise from 1 lakh on April 4 to over 3 lakh on Wednesday. During this period, cases ha...

In the early days of the pandemic, models which relied on global data went far off the mark, predicting that the country might see 200 mill...

India got an overall score of 1.88 out of 5 possible points, which is slightly better than the South-East Asia average (1.82), but lower th...

Conversations with a range of experts in public health and epidemiology reveal a consensus that a surge was broadly expected in the north w...

Among the latest developments, around 11 government educational institutions, including Maharaja’s College, will soon launch rooftop solar ...

A total of 120 teams participated in this year's Kochi edition of ET in Campus quiz, which was held at Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies.

The ET In Campus Quiz 2016 -an initiative of The Economic Times in association with VIT Business School -got off to a memorable start in Hy...

Kerala agri minister KP Mohanan said the state is now meeting over 70% of its demand for vegetables on its own compared with just 20% a few...

Jijo Paul, founder of Startup Village-incubated Resnova Technologies, walked away with the 'Best student Award for Innovative Idea in Scien...

While demand for IT,IT-enabled job remains high, placement coordinators and students say Indian IT firms have refused to hike fresher salar...

Software Major Infosys said on Monday that all 18,000 students selected by it from various Engineering colleges across the country in 2009-...