New Delhi, June 1 A senior scientist at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has tested positive for novel coronavirus following which the entire ICMR building is being sanitised, sources said. The scientist, who is from Mumbai, had come to Delhi few days ago and tested positive for the virus on Sunday morning. The […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the poor and labourers have been hit the hardest by the coronavirus crisis and that their pain cannot be explained in words. In his monthly “Mann ki Baat” radio address, Modi said all classes of people have suffered during the pandemic but it is the […]
ISLAMABAD: The total coronavirus cases in Pakistan has increased to 69,474, while the death toll reached 1,483, according to figures released by the health ministry on Sunday. In the past 24 hours, 88 more fatalities and 3,039 new coronavirus cases were registered. Pakistan’s COVID-19 tally now stands at 69,474 cases and 1,483 deaths, the health […]
Currently, the US has 1,747,087 confirmed cases and 102,836 deaths, both tallies account for the highest in the world. WASHINGTON: The total number of global coronavirus cases was nearing the 6 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 364,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturday morning, the overall number […]
Bhubaneswar, May 30 The state-owned Utkalika has started production and marketing of organic masks, manufactured by traditional artisans, with covering the face becoming the new norm in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Such masks made up of Sambalpuri cotton fabric have attracted customers as these are handwoven, natural/organic dye of Kotpad fabric is used, […]
NEW DELHI: India’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed that of China after it reported a total of 4,706 fatalities, while it overtook Turkey to become the ninth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with 1,65,799 COVID-19 cases. The country has registered 175 deaths and a record 7,466 fresh coronavirus infection cases in the last 24 hrs […]
NEW DELHI: Nearly 30 groups in India, ranging from big industry players to individual academics, are trying to develop vaccines to fight coronavirus, principal scientific adviser K Vijay Raghavan said on Thursday. Of these 30, 20 are working at a good pace, he said. “About 30 groups in India, big industry to individual academics are […]
NEW DELHI: The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,531 and the number of cases climbed to 1,58,333 in the country, registering an increase of 194 deaths and 6,566 cases in the last 24 hours since 8 am, the Union Health Ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases stand at 86,110 while 67,691 […]
Washington: The death toll from the novel coronavirus in the US has crossed one lakh, the highest for any country in the world, as the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc across the globe by upending life and disrupting economic activity. The wave of deaths, one-third of which has come from the world’s financial capital of New York […]
Akhtar Nazir & Dr Abrar Ul Haq Wani The medical-scientific response to Covid-19 is analogous to that towards the previous epidemic of SARS but with a major difference: it involves a new emerging contrivance known as Artificial intelligence (AI), which for current purposes can be defined as Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and […]