Efforts being made to study impact of vaccines, diagnostics on UK variant of virus: DBT secy Renu SwarupShe said the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia (INSACOG), formed to ascertain the status of new variants of the virus through genome sequ...
05 Jan, 2021, 10.13 PM IST
Government calls all-party meet on December 4 to discuss COVID-19 situation30 Nov, 2020, 03.38 PM IST
MNS chief Raj Thackeray appeals people not to pay inflated power billsAlongwith the BJP, the MNS has been demanding concessions in electricity bills citing the economic distress caused by the coronavirus pande...
26 Nov, 2020, 04.45 PM IST
Will resume COVID-19 vaccine trials after DCGI nod: Serum InstitutePharma giant AstraZeneca on Saturday said that clinical trials for the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus vaccine, AZD1222, have resumed in the...
12 Sep, 2020, 10.08 PM IST
Covid-19 has infected a large chunk of Pune’s population: Sero StudySero surveys are done to assess the spread of disease and immunity in a population and are helpful in planning health systems. Trends in th...
18 Aug, 2020, 07.29 AM IST
COVID-19 infection tally crosses 50,000-mark in Maharashtra's Pune districtThe district now has total 51,885 COVID-19 cases, while the death toll due to the disease has reached 1,343, the official said.
20 Jul, 2020, 02.20 PM IST
Centre to roll out drone survey for property validationThe central government has decided to take a leaf out of the state government's drone survey to map habitations in rural areas and replicat...
24 Apr, 2020, 02.59 PM IST
Housing sales falls 26% in Jan-March in 9 top cities, new supply plunges 51%: ReportAccording to the data, housing sales declined in all the nine cities -- Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram (including Bhiwadi, Dharuhe...
23 Apr, 2020, 01.06 PM IST
Unending struggle for family after 5 members hit by COVID-19A 35-year-old man, whose father died of coronavirus in Pune over 10 days back and four other family members are still in hospital after con...
21 Apr, 2020, 10.53 AM IST
Realtors urge Maharashtra govt to pay workers from labour cessLast month, the labour ministry had said around Rs52,000 crore was available, which could be distributed to Rs3.5 crore registered workers.
16 Apr, 2020, 04.42 PM IST
Dhoni donates Rs 1 lakh to fight Covid-19, faces the wrath of Twitter; netizens say ‘his net worth is Rs 800 cr’The cricket maestro faced the ire of netizens.
28 Mar, 2020, 03.42 PM IST
Anand Mahindra, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw in awe of the 'woman behind India's first coronavirus testing kit'Hours before delivering her baby, Minal Dakhave Bhosale had submitted the COVID-19 kits for evaluation.
28 Mar, 2020, 02.09 PM IST
Petrol pumps in Pune banned from selling petrol to common people to stop their movementTo restrict movement of people, the district administration of Pune has ordered the petrol pumps to stop sale of petrol to all vehicles exc...
24 Mar, 2020, 07.16 PM IST
Covid-19: Some travelers from high-risk countries escaped quarantine in IndiaThe Centre has put seven countries which have seen large-scale outbreak of the virus in "negative" list, and passengers from these places a...
19 Mar, 2020, 05.55 PM IST
Those revealing identity of COVID-19 patients to face actionTaking cognisance of a complaint from a relative of a Pune-based patient, who tested positive for COVID-19, divisional commissioner Deepak ...
12 Mar, 2020, 01.02 PM IST
Haptik launches WhatsaApp chatbot for novel Coronavirus awarenessGiven the accessibility of WhatsApp as a medium and people’s preferences to chat, Haptik said that it had built a chatbot called “nCov help...
10 Feb, 2020, 08.42 PM IST
Travellers from China to be screened for novel coronavirus at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata airportsThe government has also issued a travel advisory asking citizens travelling to and from China to follow certain precautionary measures. It ...
17 Jan, 2020, 04.46 PM IST