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India's longest river ropeway service launched in Guwahati

India's longest river ropeway of 1.82 km over the Brahmaputra river in Assam was inaugurated on Monday. It is expected to boost tourism in the region

62% Indian parents will not send children to school even if they reopen

A survey has found that 62 percent of Indian parents will not be sending their children to school even if they are reopened on government's orders on September 1

Twelve yrs after 26/11, youngest survivor seeks promised aid

A nine-year-old girl, who was shot in her leg during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 and dreamt of becoming a police officer to crush terrorism, is now running from pillar to post for sheer survival

India to have coronavirus vaccine by 2020 end: Health Minister

India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan has said that the country will have a vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of the year

Saudi Aramco remains interested in India investment plan

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, remains committed on its investment plan in India, including a $15 billion deal with Reliance Industries, even though COVID-19 pandemic has made life difficult for oil companies with suppressed demand and falling oil prices and wide-scale erosion in valuations

Covid-hit demand, low prices cut India's oil import bill 58%

In the oil sector, the global health emergency posed by the spread of the novel coronavirus is coming to India's advantage

Indian economy faces rising risk of stagflation

India's economy which is already reeling under immense turbulence unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic, now faces an ever-increasing risk of stagflation, experts opined

Indian health experts back blood plasma therapy to treat COVID-19

After reports that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold the emergency use authorisation of blood plasma therapy to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients, health experts in India on Friday stressed that the therapy should not be abandoned till the development of an effective vaccine against the virus

COVID-19: Tibetan medicine 'proving effective' in fight

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has claimed that SORIG immune boosters are proving to be highly effective in the fight against COVID-19

Low-indoor air humidity increases COVID-19 spread: Indo-German study

An Indo-German team of scientists has found that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 virus via aerosol particles in the indoor environment seems to be strongly influenced by relative humidity

Nine trapped in Telangana power station blaze dead

All nine persons trapped after a huge fire at an underground hydroelectric power station in Telangana were killed, officials said on Friday

E-commerce is big in India's hinterland

India's non-metropolitan regions are showing a considerable presence in the race for online retail, suggests a new report by e-commerce focused SaaS platform Unicommerce

Nearly 400,000 Covid patients availed home isolation in Delhi through telemedicine

As many as 3.8 lakh (380,000)  COVID-19 patients opted for home isolation after consulting doctors via telemedicine service of the Delhi government between June and August, according to a report unveiled by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday

Facebook executives asked to appear before Indian parliamentary panel on September 2

India's Parliamentary Panel on IT has summoned representatives of Facebook to appear before the committee on September 2 to discuss the subject of "safeguarding citizens' rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news media platforms including special emphasis on women security in the digital space"

Asteroid which ruffled Earth's gravity discovered by IIT-B students

A SUV-sized asteroid that zoomed past just 2,950 km above the Earth's surface on August 16, disturbing the gravity, was discovered by two students of IIT-Bombay, hailing from Pune and Haryana, officials said