Trial testing a unique formulation of ibuprofen to treat COVID-19 launches: Study
Jun 03, 2020, at 08:14 pm
The LIBERATE trial is a pioneering collaboration between London’s Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London and the pharmaceutical organisation the SEEK Group.
Maharashtra: Cyclone Nisarga makes landfall, 1 dies
Jun 03, 2020, at 06:37 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: At least one person was killed as Cyclone Nisarga made landfall in Maharashtra’s Raigad district on Wednesday afternoon.
Jun 03, 2020, at 06:09 pm
New Delhi/UNI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved re-establishing Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) as a subordinate office under Ministry of AYUSH by merging into it Pharmacopoeia Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory (HPL)- the two central laboratories established in Ghaziabad since 1975.
Jun 03, 2020, at 05:24 pm
London: A large observational study suggests that treatment with the antimalarial drug chloroquine or its analogue hydroxychloroquine (taken with or without the antibiotics azithromycin or clarithromycin) offers no benefit for patients with COVID-19. The study analysed data from nearly 15,000 patients with COVID-19 receiving a combination of any of the four drug regimens and 81,000 controls.
Bihar: Coronavirus claims 25th life
Jun 03, 2020, at 05:11 pm
Patna/UNI: With one more death due to coronavirus in Jamui district, the death toll due to Covid-19 increased to 25 in Bihar.
Nisarga Cyclone hits Maharashtra: Trains running from Konkan diverted via Belagavi
Jun 03, 2020, at 05:05 pm
Belagavi/UNI: Four passenger trains running on Konkan Railway was diverted to run via Madgaon, Londa, Belagavi, Miraj on Wednesday as the region is under threat of Nisarga Cyclone hitting the Konkan.
WHO warns of high risks of 'Devastating' Second wave of COVID-19
Jun 03, 2020, at 04:13 pm
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge warned on Wednesday of high risks of COVID-19 resurgence, adding that the second wave would be devastating.
5-magnitude earthquake hits western Iran
Jun 03, 2020, at 04:12 pm
Tehran/Xinhua/UNI: A five-magnitude earthquake hit Saleh Abad region in Iran's western province of Ilam at 12:46 p.m. local time (0816 GMT) on Wednesday, according to Iran's Seismological Center.
Covid-19 affects all 30 districts in Odisha
Jun 03, 2020, at 03:57 pm
Bhubaneswar/UNI: Covid-19 today covered the entire Odisha with 143 positive cases taking the total count to 2388 with 1325 recoveries.
Maharashtra: Sangli reports two new COVID-19 cases
Jun 03, 2020, at 03:56 pm
Sangli, Jun 3 (UNI) Two new COVID-19 cases were detected here on Wednesday hence taking this district's pandemic tally to 124, stated Collector Abhijeet Chaudhari.
Meghalaya records new COVID-19 positive case
Jun 03, 2020, at 03:52 pm
Shillong/UNI: Meghalaya has recorded another active case after one person, who had travelled from Uttar Pradesh, tested positive for novel coronavirus on Wednesday.
Manipur: Covid-19 cases increase to 102
Jun 03, 2020, at 01:05 pm
Imphal/UNI: The total number of Covid-19 positive cases has increased to 102 and the number of active cases to 76 in Manipur.
Mild intensity earthquake hits Meghalaya
Jun 03, 2020, at 12:50 pm
Shillong/UNI: A mild intensity earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale hit Indo-Bangladesh border at Meghalaya around 7.10 am this morning.
Maharashtra: 21,000 people in Palghar evacuated ahead of Cyclone Nisarga's landfall
Jun 03, 2020, at 09:23 am
Palghar/UNI: With the Cyclone Nisarga likely to hit the western coasts of Maharashtra anytime soon, the authorities have evacuated 21,000 villagers from nearly two dozen villages in four talukas of the district to safety.
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.