Jun 03, 2020, at 09:17 am
New York:With a euro here and a dollar there, remittances – the money that migrant workers send home to their families – have been adding up in a big way to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and lift tens of millions out of extreme poverty.
4.2 magnitude earthquake hits Bangladesh, no casualtyÂ
Jun 03, 2020, at 09:08 am
Dhaka: An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter Scale hit Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said.
Chinese mainland reports no new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases
Jun 03, 2020, at 08:59 am
Beijing/Xinhua: Chinese health authority said Wednesday that no new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases were reported on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday.
Address 'appalling impact' of COVID-19 on minorities, UN rights chief urges
Jun 03, 2020, at 08:53 am
New York/IBNS: Urgent action is needed to address “the major disproportionate impact” of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minorities, including people of African descent, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
‘Dogged pragmatism’ needed to save Ocean: UN Special Envoy
Jun 03, 2020, at 08:33 am
New York:‘Dogged pragmatism’ is needed to save the Ocean as the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, according to the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean.
Mumbai on alert as Maharashtra, Gujarat brace for Cyclone Nisarga
Jun 03, 2020, at 07:52 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Just two weeks after Cyclone Amphan devastated West Bengal and Odisha, now Maharashtra and Gujarat are likely to be hit by Cyclone Nisarga on Wednesday afternoon.
Pregnant elephant dies after locals feed her cracker-laden pineapple
Jun 03, 2020, at 12:00 am
Thiruvananthapuram/IBNS: In a brutal instance of animal abuse, a pregnant elephant in Kerala died after she ate a pineapple full of firecrackers offered to her by some locals.
Jun 02, 2020, at 06:38 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In response to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients requiring critical care and ventilation support, Apollo Hospitals, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) and Medvarsity today announced a joint collaboration to train over 100,000 doctors on Ventilator Management.
Jun 02, 2020, at 06:24 pm
Geneva: A record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance - marking a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance. But the data they provide reveals that a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines at hand to treat them.
Jun 02, 2020, at 06:19 pm
World Health Organization (WHO)'s May 14 statement about COVID-19 that the pandemic virus “may never go away” makes the need to boost immunity against the virus more important than ever before. In this context, eminent Kolkata-based homeopath Dr. Pratip Banerji has written about The advantages of homeopathy in developing immunity in combating COVID 19, from the perspective of being a fourth-generation homeopath with over 30 years’ of experience as a practitioner and a researcher, belonging to a family of homeopaths who have treated patients for over 150 years.
Bangladesh: First Rohingya refugee dies in Cox's Bazar due to COVID-19
Jun 02, 2020, at 05:53 pm
Dhaka: Authorities in Bangladesh have said the country has registered the death of the first Rohingya person due to COVID-19 infection.
Eli Lilly commences study of a potential COVID-19 antibody treatment in humans
Jun 02, 2020, at 05:24 pm
Indianapolis/IBNS: Eli Lilly and Company on Monday announced patients have been dosed in the world's first study of a potential antibody treatment designed to fight COVID-19.
Optimal physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection can prevent spread of COVID-19: Study
Jun 02, 2020, at 05:22 pm
London/IBNS: Keeping at least one metre from other people as well as wearing face coverings and eye protection, in and outside of health-care settings, could be the best way to reduce the chance of viral infection or transmission of COVID-19, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis synthesising all the available evidence from the scientific literature, published in The Lancet.
Maharashtra Fights Infection: COVID-19 cases cross 70k-mark
Jun 02, 2020, at 04:22 pm
Pune/UNI: Maharashtra crossed the 70,000-mark as it recorded 2,361 COVID-19 new cases, including 76 fatalities, till preceding day, informed health officials on Tuesday.
Cyclone Nisarga likely to cause major destruction in Maharashtra, Gujarat
Jun 02, 2020, at 03:59 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Cyclone Nisarga is most likely to make landfall as a 'severe cyclonic storm' over Maharashtra and Gujarat on Wednesday with high wind speed causing heavy rainfall and damage to power and communication lines, thatched houses and coastal crops in the states.
Cyclone Nisarga likely to cause heavy destruction in Maharashtra, Gujarat
Jun 02, 2020, at 03:26 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Cyclone Nisarga is most likely to make landfall as 'severe cyclonic storm' over Maharashtra and Gujarat on Wednesday with high wind speed causing heavy rainfall and damage to power and communication lines, thatched houses and coastal crops in the states.
India ranks 7th worst Covid-affected country adding over 8,000 new cases
Jun 02, 2020, at 11:44 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Reporting more than 8,000 new cases in the last 24 hours, India on Tuesday ranked the seventh worst Covid-19-affected country in the world.
Central and South America now ‘intense zones’ for COVID-19 transmission
Jun 02, 2020, at 09:47 am
New York: Greater solidarity must be shown to Central and South American countries which have become “the intense zones” for COVID-19 transmission, a top official with the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
India fights COVID-19: Death toll touches 5598
Jun 02, 2020, at 09:32 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The number of COVID-19 cases in India has touched 1.98 lakh and the death toll due to the disease in the country reached 5598, as per data released by Ministry of Health.
New Zealand confirms no new case of COVID-19 for 11 consecutive days
Jun 02, 2020, at 09:22 am
Wellington/Xinhua/UNI: New Zealand reported no new case of COVID-19 on Tuesday for 11 consecutive days, with the combined total of confirmed and probable cases staying at 1,504, according to the Ministry of Health.
WHO to support DR Congo as Ebola resurfaces in the northwest
Jun 02, 2020, at 09:04 am
New York: The World Health Organization (WHO) will assist the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as it confronts a new Ebola outbreak in the northwest amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and other challenges, agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
COVID-19 disrupting services to treat non-communicable diseases, WHO survey finds
Jun 02, 2020, at 08:40 am
New York/IBNS: The fight against COVID-19 has severely disrupted services to prevent and treat cancer, diabetes, hypertension and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which kill more than 40 million people each year, according to a new survey published on Monday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Remdesivir drug helps moderately ill COVID-19 patients, says Gilead
Jun 02, 2020, at 08:33 am
California: California-based biotech company Gilead Sciences, Inc on Monday announced topline results from the Phase 3 SIMPLE trial in hospitalized patients with moderate COVID-19 pneumonia.
No increase in risk of COVID-19 with blood pressure medicines, assures DAK
Jun 01, 2020, at 05:54 pm
Srinagar/UNI: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Monday said blood pressure medicines do not increase the risk of infection, serious illness or death from Coronavirus.
Recovery rate from COVID-19 in India touches 48.19 pct: Ministry of Health
Jun 01, 2020, at 05:11 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Indian government on Monday said 4,835 COVID-19 patients have been cured in the past 24 hours.
South West Monsoon hits Kerala on Monday: IMD
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:21 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday informed that the south West Monsoon has arrived in Kerala and has coincided with it original date.
COVID-19: 45-yr-old man succumbs in Kashmir, death toll mounts to 29 in J&K
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:19 pm
Srinagar/UNI: A 55-year-old man, a resident of Shopian, died due to COVID-19 in Kashmir valley, taking the death toll due to the infection in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to 29.
nCov: 13 more test positive in Nagpur
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:15 pm
Nagpur/UNI: Thirteen more patients tested positive for coronavirus on Monday in this district of Maharashtra, sources said.
Maharashtra: Kolhapur reports 17 new COVID-19 cases
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:14 pm
Kolhapur/UNI: Seventeen new COVID-19 cases were detected here on Monday, taking this the total number of Novel coronavirus patients in this district to 607, the Chhatrapati Pramila Raje Hospital confirmed.
Telangana: Pre-monsoon rains brings relief from sweltering heat for people
Jun 01, 2020, at 04:02 pm
Hyderabad/UNI: People in Telangana heaved a sigh of relief as the sweltering heat which gripped the state for the last several days subsided following pre-monsoon rains during the last two days.