Despite curtailed railway services, 8,700 people died on tracks in 2020, many of them migrantsWhile the fatalities during 2020 were lesser compared to four years immediately before that, the numbers are still significant given the fa...
02 Jun, 2021, 04.56 PM IST
Centre urges states to track and trace coronavirus by using ITIHASAccording to a home ministry official, the department of telecommunication is helping health authorities predict emerging hotspots by using...
19 Apr, 2021, 07.59 AM IST
More than 2,500 US virus deaths in 24 hours: Johns HopkinsThe United States regularly saw 2,000 deaths a day in the spring, but has hit the number several times in the past two weeks.
02 Dec, 2020, 08.48 AM IST
Oil falls on coronavirus surge but on track for weekly gainBrent crude was down 36 cents, or 0.83%, at $43.17 a barrel as of 1143 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures fell 48 cents,...
13 Nov, 2020, 07.13 PM IST
Returning to the stands: Eifel Grand Prix at Germany's Nuerburgring track will allow up to 20,000 fansThe Nuerburgring can normally accommodate more than 100,000 spectators.
21 Sep, 2020, 04.14 PM IST
Coronavirus track and trace system begins in EnglandUnder the system, a team of 25,000 tracers -- supported by 20,000 testers and up to 7,000 clinicians -- will text, email or call people who...
28 May, 2020, 03.14 PM IST
Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing appsApple and Google, whose operating systems power 99% of smart phones, said last month they would work together to create a system for notify...
04 May, 2020, 11.55 PM IST
Tech that saves lives: Facebook data helps create Covid-19 'heat map', will keep track of the spread of virusThe map was developed with millions of responses to surveys of Facebook and Google users.
21 Apr, 2020, 06.00 PM IST
Mutations undergone by coronavirus tracked, three lineages discovered: StudyAccording to the researchers, including those from the University of Cambridge in the UK, there are three distinct "variants" of COVID-19, ...
10 Apr, 2020, 12.57 PM IST
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces 5T plan to tackle novel coronavirus crisisThe Delhi Chief Minister stressed on team work among different states and the Centre to tackle the Covid crisis.
08 Apr, 2020, 09.39 AM IST
J&K: Anti-terror mechanism used to track people escaping corona quarantineFighting this new battle, officials said the authorities roped in the state intelligence machinery who were tasked to track, identify and b...
05 Apr, 2020, 04.40 PM IST
Gujarat launches coronavirus app to track home-quarantined persons"Apart from GIS mapping, the app is equipped with 'Geo Fencing' to alert the authorities if the person moves away from a specific area. It ...
27 Mar, 2020, 05.49 PM IST
COVID-19 cases in AP rises to 12 as one more tests positiveThe person came in contact with the coronavirus patient on March 17 and developed symptoms. He was kept in isolation four days later and on...
27 Mar, 2020, 12.01 PM IST
38 coronavirus cases in Gujarat; over 1 cr tracked under surveillance programmeOut of the three new cases, one patient has history of travel to Dubai, while the two others are cases of local transmission of the viral i...
26 Mar, 2020, 11.07 AM IST
COVID-19 tracking integrated into Conduent Maven platformMaven is a software platform currently used by approximately 40 organizations — primarily U.S. public health agencies, as well as internati...
24 Mar, 2020, 04.13 PM IST
Best strategies against coronavirus: Track, isolate, communicateSome strategies are proving more effective than others in containing the pandemic: pro-active efforts to track down and isolate the infecte...
19 Mar, 2020, 08.54 AM IST
Hyderabad techie may have contracted coronavirus infection in DubaiAccording to Telangana's health minister, the 24-year-old may have come in contact with some people from Hong Kong.
03 Mar, 2020, 03.15 PM IST