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08 Jul

Surge in coronavirus cases in Patna: Patna to Remain Under Lockdown From July 10 to 16, Essential Services Allowed.

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Keeping in mind the rising cases of coronavirus, the Patna district administration on Wednesday decided to impose complete lockdown in the state capital from July 10 to 16 to break the chain of the deadly virus. Except for the essential services, markets, offices and other commercial activities will be prohibited during the lockdown period in the state capital, the order said. While 749 cases were reported from Bihar, Patna alone registered 235 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, which is the highest one day record. Ravi in his order stated that there was an alarming surge in Covid-19 positive cases in Patna…

08 Jul

Reduction in syllabus a one-time measure, “Has Been Interpreted Differently” , says CBSE.

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Amid outrage and protests over the changes, the CBSE said the reduction or “rationalization” of syllabus for classes 9 to 12 had been "interpreted differently" and that it was a “one-time measure” to reduce the exam stress of students due to the health emergency and to prevent learning gaps.The national education board was responding to criticism it faced after k ey chapters like Democratic Rights, Food Security in India, Federalism, Citizenship and Secularism have been dropped from school courses to reduce the burden on students amid the coronavirus crisis. “The schools have also been directed to follow the alternative academic…

08 Jul

Arvind Kejriwal asks Health Secy to share detailed analysis

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has directed Delhi Health Secretary to share a detailed analysis of factors behind all COVID-19 deaths reported in the national capital in the last two weeks. The objective is to take measures to further reduce COVID19 deaths in the national capital which has so far reported 3,165 fatalities due to the highly-contagious disease. Meanwhile, the Delhi government has also directed all government and private COVID hospitals to get feedback from patients and their willingness to donate blood plasma after at the time of discharge.

07 Jul

Covaxin trial to start at Belagavi hospital , India’s first COVID-19 vaccine to begin soon.

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Covaxin, the first possible vaccine against COVID-19, will be tested on a team of around 200 healthy volunteers in and around Belagavi. The clinical trials will be conducted by doctors and staff members of Jeevan Rekha, a multi-speciality hospital here, monitored by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Bharat Biotech International Ltd., the private company that has developed the chemical molecule, doctors at the hospital said. Jeevan Rekha is one of the 12 hospitals and health centres in the country chosen by the Union government for clinical trials of the vaccine, whose technical name is BBV152 COVID vaccine.…

07 Jul

Reopened monuments wear a deserted look on first day.

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India on Monday tentatively stepped out of a 75-day lockdown with malls, religious places and offices opening in several parts of the country under strict conditions limiting the number of people and mandating sanitisation of all premises. Monuments that reopened to the public on Monday after being closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic wore a deserted look on the first day, with more media persons than visitors at the sites. Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel had announced on July 2 that all Centrally protected monuments of the Archaeological Survey of India that were located outside containment zones would…

07 Jul

UGC decides to conduct Final Year university exam by September end.

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Final Year university examinations may be postponed until the end of September, but must be conducted in either online or offline mode, the University Grants Commission (UGC) decided on Monday evening. Students who are unable to appear for these examinations will be given the opportunity to appear for special examinations which will be conducted later, according to an official statement. The UGC had first released an indicative academic calendar for higher education institutions on April 29 in which it had prescribed that universities conduct their final-year or terminal semester examination from July 1 to July 15 and declare their results…

07 Jul

COVID-19 Patient’s Body Dumped Outside Bhopal Hospital.

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In a shocking breach of Covid safety protocol and basic human rights, a Coronavirus victim’s body was left on the pavement outside a hospital on Monday night, with the patient’s family clueless about it. All they knew was that an ambulance had taken him away to a Covid designated hospital.“My father’s body remained on the street for at least an hour. They simply dumped him in the open. No one, not even animals, deserves such treatment,” said the victim’s son. A magistrate has been asked to inquire into the case involving a power distribution company employee who was admitted to…

07 Jul

FIT and NEFIT contribute Rs.50 crore

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In 2001, Chandra Shekhar Ghosh started Bandhan as an NGO, aimed at women empowerment and poverty alleviation, by helping marginalised women develop income-generating activities through microcredit. With time, the NGO grew its operations manifold and two trusts – Financial Inclusion Trust (FIT) and North East Financial Inclusion Trust (NEFIT) – were created to run development programmes for the marginalised communities, apart from Bandhan. In 2015, when Bandhan Bank was formed, FIT and NEFIT assumed the role of promoters of the Bank. The country is going through unprecedented times and many have been affected by the pandemic and its effect. C…

06 Jul

Life-saving HIV drugs risk running out as COVID-19 hits supplies

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More than a third of the world's countries say they are at risk of running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Twenty-four out of those 73 nations have already reported critically low supplies of the vital antiretroviral drugs, the agency said. "The findings of this survey are deeply concerning," the WHO's director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement at the start of the International AIDS conference. The WHO said about 8.3 million HIV-positive people are reliant on the…

06 Jul

A ‘Smart Swab Robot’ to help collect COVID-19 test samples

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Coronavirus cases are growing in the country and same is the condition with testings. A robotic engineer from Coimbatore has developed smart swab robot for sample collection. The robot works automatically through connecting with phone via app and it eliminates any human interference that could help in containing the spread of coronavirus. A day after India overtook Russia to become the third-highest country in the world in terms of coronavirus cases, the Indian Council of Medical Research said that the country has tested over one crore samples till date. “The per day testing capacity which was around 1.5 lakh on…