The government imposed a lockdown on March 24 and is yet to open up travel, including international flights.

CM Baghel has urged the prime minister to release Rs 10, 000 crore immediately, out of the total amount.

None of the merchant mines in Odisha whose lease validity expired by March 31 has been able to restart. Though the successful bidders have got LoI, they awaiting formal vesting orders

This postdoc no longer feels alone even though he’s working from home

“It’s OK to feel scared and sad. And it’s OK to say so,” one Ph.D. student advises

A postdoc shares what she learned by talking to a friend who is a psychiatrist

The scientific community is “making lemonade out of lemons,” one researcher says

This Ph.D. student wonders when she’ll be able to graduate

Hockey is struggling to survive in the country because of lack of sponsors owing to the national team's poor show at the international stage.

Viren Rasquinha, who is the CEO of Olympic Gold Quest, stressed on the importance of sports psychologists for athletes in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, which has been postponed to next year.

Today, we have a guest post from G. Geltner, Professor of History at the University of Amsterdam and author of Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy, new from Penn Press. Geltner's book provides a critical...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, academic research is more important than ever and the large-scale shift to distance learning at colleges and universities around the world means students need new forms of access to content. In response to these new...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures enacted to combat its spread have upended our lives in countless ways. For authors publishing scholarly books this spring (and quite possibly beyond), a pressing question has emerged: how on earth am...

Today, we have a guest post from Theodore Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Health Studies Program at the University of Iowa and author of Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa. Drawing on extended...

During times such as these, eager designers and creatives can’t help but see opportunities for improvement.

Quality of forecasts as meteorological information from aeroplanes has fallen up to 90%.

Twenty-one billboards dotted around the UNESCO World Heritage city of Vilnius feature photographs of men, women and children wearing masks as part of a ‘Mask Fashion Week’.

Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday expressed gratitude to policemen in the frontline in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak by keeping the state police logo as the display picture or DP of his social media accounts.

Two months after Karnataka registered its first COVID-19 positive case, the state completed one lakh-test milestone on Friday, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said on Saturday.

Dharavi area of Mumbai reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday which included one death. The total coronavirus cases in the locality now stands at 833 which includes 27 deaths.

The number of active cases of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh went up to 1,800 on Saturday, while nearly 1,400 people have been discharged so far, a senior official said. Principal Secretary, Health, Amit Mohan Prasad said the national recovery percentage was 30 per cent but the figure was 43 per cent in Uttar Pradesh.

The firm has initiated sanitisation of the plant and its surroundings

Uber reported it had seen encouraging signs in markets hit by the pandemic and posted a 14% rise in revenue for the first quarter, supported by a jump in food-delivery orders at its Uber Eats business

Export growth started declining in February and turned negative in March, at -23.24 per cent

With demand from industrial, commercial and transportation down, the hit on volumes is expected to be higher for the June quarter

In a Q&A, Brian Humphries says his firm has handled the ransomware attack well and doesn't see any impact on client engagement

Among verticals, the highest growth in revenue during the quarter came from communications, media and technology, which grew 5.2 per cent to $626 million

Recently, while 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals facility in Ahmedabad tested positive for Covid-19, one person at Sun Pharma's Halol plant tested positive.

Had it not been for Covid-19 impact, the company would have reported a sharp 80 per cent year-on-year jump in its pre-tax profit to Rs 692 core.

The cooperative model in India went out of the way to protect milk producers

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had announced that the company is cancelling physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021

Excluding covid-19 related provisions, the profit after tax of the bank would have been Rs 3,260 crore

A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority.

It needs swift, sensible attention, writes Nikita Puri

The small city state has benefited from lessons learned after it was the epicentre of the SARS epidemic, keeping infections to less than 1,000, writes Rahul Jacob

Ask a daughter who lost her father and has to grieve in isolation. Why? Because the pandemic upended grief as we know it

Despite the clear balance of evidence, an overwhelming proportion of aid is devoted to country lending, with only a fraction allocated to financing GPGs

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the world with disaster. But the crisis also offers govts a rare chance to undertake policy changes that can boost the global economy's long-term growth potential.

The provocation for this move is no doubt the recent large capital outflows from the markets that caused huge volatility in the forex markets - offshore NDF and onshore rupee

Having a strategy is essential. But equally important is that the strategy accurately describe the economic problem at hand

With the State's civil society link broken beyond repair, the country is ill equipped to handle the consequences of possibly the largest post-Partition migration within India

If the international community wants to avoid a wave of defaults, it must develop a rescue plan immediately

In the absence of clarity about the impact of this crisis on demand and supply, any measure undertaken presents the possibility of proving to be eminently wrong when clarity eventually emerges

What can history museums do during an epidemic? Like many institutions across the globe, the New-York Historical Society is temporarily closed to help contain the spread of COVID-19. And like so many New Yorkers, our curators and librarians are preoccupied with concern for their loved ones and grief over what’s happening in our beloved city....

The post History Responds: Collecting During the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Behind The Scenes.

According to the rules till now, a patient was considered fit to be discharged if he or she tested negative on day 14 and then again in a span of 24 hours

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Saturday assured that India will not face a serious coronavirus COVID-19 situation seen in some developed countries. He, however, said that the country is prepared for the worst-case scenario.

The Minority Affairs Ministry will launch the “Jaan Bhi, Jahan Bhi” awareness campaign to make people aware of social distancing and other guidelines for safety from COVID-19.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday (May 9) stressed on the need to understand the "chemistry of corona while administering its treatment".