he weather gods came to Delhi’s rescue a day after Diwali, helping the city get a breather from the incessant cracker bursting on Saturday. While Delhi’s air quality index remained in the ‘severe’ zone on Sunday, high wind speed and rain in various parts of the city helped improve...

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon acquire 600 tablets (mobile devices) to help coronavirus patients in Mumbai to get in touch with their families via video calls. This is being done as a relief measure for the families of Covid-19 patients who are currently in ICU wards...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday dedicated an Ayurveda teaching and research institute in Gujarat that will offer a range of courses and forge interdisciplinary collaborations to give a contemporary thrust to the ancient medicine system. It is formed by merging a cluster of four...

There is good news for American citizens. If Pfizer Inc.'s Covid-19 vaccine is quickly approved by drug regulators, US plans to begin vaccination from next month. Pfizer and BioNTech SE reported on Monday that their vaccine had been found to be more than 90 per cent effective at treating...

Delhi recorded its sharpest single-day spike of 8,593 fresh novel coronavirus cases on Wednesday which took the national capital's infection tally to almost 4.60 lakh, and 85 fatalities -- the highest since June 16. The number of containment zones in Delhi stands at 4,016. The active...