"It is a wake-up call," said K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Indian government, whose role is very significant in the current COVID-19 scenario. Raghavan has stressed the need to reinvent to create a national structure that can deal with such extraordinary situations.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is behaving weirdly and it appears that it has an intelligence much stronger than other related viruses, according to an Indian researcher who recently created a molecule that has the potential to be developed into a drug that can cure Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19 patients

Facebook's over Rs 43,000 crore investment in Jio Platforms will help the social networking giant build similar products for the other key markets around the world, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg

The Asian Development Bank has approved a $100 million loan to support Bangladesh in its efforts to address the immediate public health requirements of combatting the novel coronavirus disease pandemic

The global coronavirus outbreak is expected to have a significant impact on Nepal’s economic growth, dragging it down to a four-year-low of 2.27 per cent in the current fiscal year

With nations around the world battered by their dependence of China for vital supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that the US is discussing restructuring global supply chains with India and other Indo-Pacific “friends.”

Countries like India, Indonesia and Thailand that are among the world's largest vaccine manufacturers from the South-East Asia region must play a lead role in overcoming the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic," the World Health Organisaion (WHO) said on Wednesday

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Executive Chairperson of Biocon, feels that India should start opening its lockdown from May 3 and become fully operational by end of June

At the Pune Climate Dialogue held on Earth Day,  April 22, India’s Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar set the tone for the Petersberg Climate Dialogue through his interaction with nearly 350 climate experts, students and enthusiasts

Due to the reduction in air and noise pollution because the nationwide lockdown to fight the Covid-19 outbreak, the population of birds and butterflies has surged significantly across India

India'sHealth Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that the coronavirus pandemic has come in India as a blessing in disguise as it has given impetus to various activities under the 'Make in India' project

Terming that the plasma therapy is at an experimental stage, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said considering plasma therapy as treatment of COVID-19 was wrong, illegal and might create "life-threatening" complications

Businessmen have requested the concerned authorities to allow export of Pakistani consignments to Afghanistan through the Chaman, Torkham and Khorlachi borders which were facing hurdles due to restrictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported on Tuesday

India has gifted a consignment of medical gloves to Sri Lanka to fight a coronavirus pandemic as infected sailors involved in Coronavirus quarantine work triggered a spike in numbers

Ratings agency India Ratings and Research has revised its FY21 gross domestic product (GDP) growth further down to 1.9 percent from its earlier forecast of 3.6 percent