Even after business activity resumes in a couple of months, assuming the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, some sectors like entertainment, tourism, hospitality, electronics, retail, gems and jewellery and logistics are likely to take a big hit, with recovery possible only in the medium to long term

The scorching sun in the summers could considerably slow down the transmission of the coronavirus infection in India, and South 
Asia, according to the country's two high profile microbiologists who have worked with National Institutes of Health(NIH) and the world's largest biomedical research agency in Maryland, USA

Afghanistan on Saturday turned down Pakistan's request to handover Aslam Farooqi, leader of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), an affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) terror group, a media report said

A Hyderabad-based life sciences company has developed coronavirus test kit named Quantiplus COV that can give the result in two hours. Huwel Lifesciences on Friday received approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for the test kit

India will explore novel blood plasma therapy for COVID-19 using the immune power gained by a recovered person to treat a sick person

Agra, the Taj Mahal city, as emerged as the finest example in best practices in cluster management, where a smart city control room was converted into a war room to fight the outbreak of coronavirus from a person who had returned from Italy on February 25

Two years back, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi was moved by the way taxi driver Saidul Lashkar single-handedly turned his grief for a sister - who died as he failed to hospitalise her because of financial difficulties - into a hospital in Kolkata to memorialse her name

The Indian government on Friday said it has stock of 3.28 crore (32.8 million) hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets, three times the projected domestic requirement. It also approved the first list of countries for the HCQ export

If the India lockdown continues till mid-May along with moderate relaxation after the end of 21-day lockdown on April 14, it could put 32 million livelihoods at risk and swell non-performing loans (NPLs) by seven percentage points, resulting in the economy contracting sharply by around 20 percent in the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, with –2 to –3 percent growth for fiscal year 2021, a new report warned on Friday

Nepal's private sector has called on the government to provide necessary incentives to start the process of manufacturing personal protective equipment in the country in a bid to deal with the shortage of the gear that is crucial to safeguard lives of people on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus disease and create employment opportunities at a time when the shutdown has rendered many jobless

Pakistan has pledged to contribute $3 million in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) COVID-19 Emergency Fund to support regional efforts in the fight against the global pandemic, it was reorted

As thousands of nurses across the country light the lamps of hope in the hospitals, several leading women play a vital role in India's war room to contain the spread of the dreaded pandemic

Police in Sri Lanka were using music to help people in coronavirus-hit areas to stay calm and beat the health scare amid the rising number of cases in the island-nation

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that it is finalising the protocol for convalescent plasma therapy for the treatment of severely ill Covid-19 patients

As India passes through an unprecedented crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic, a number of civil servants have been tirelessly managing the country's administrative and delivery system round-the-clock and sacrificing personal time and comforts to keep the battle going