Covid 19  

The ICMR in collaboration with the health ministry and the AIIMS is planning to set up the National Clinical Registry which will help researchers and policy makers understand lot of things in improving COVID-19 treatment

Angels of Mercy had grabbed headlines for ensuring a dignified send off for COVID-19 victims. Today, they are back in the news for performing the last rites of a COVID negative person as his family couldn’t travel to Bengaluru due to restrictions

 

 MNS chief Raj Thackeray rejected chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's suggestion for ‘e-bhoomi pujan’ in Ayodhya
 

States like Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka and Tripura are yet to follow directives on timely payment of salaries to healthcare workers engaged in COVID-19
 

NITI Aayog member VK Paul who is also part of the COVID-19 national taskforce said policymakers are actively deliberating to prioritise the groups of people who will first receive the vaccine
 

Russia plans to register a coronavirus vaccine by August 10-12, clearing the way for what its backers say would be the world’s first official approval of an inoculation against the epidemic

India and Bangladesh have stepped up their rail cooperation in mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as trade via land border faced disruptions
 

Defence minister Rajnath Singh has proposed an idea to ban import of weapons that can be built indigenously, giving a fillip to Atmanirbhar Bharat

India's COVID-19 fatality rate is progressively falling from 3.33% on June 18 to 2.25% as on date, while the recovery rate increased from around 53% in mid-June to more than 64%

As the Congress held a ‘Save Democracy and Save Constitution’ campaign, the BJP has criticised it alleging that it has flouted the COVID-19 norms

The current testing method requires highly trained technical staff and can take a few hours before the results are finalised

BJP president JP Nadda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi took bold decisions to help people amid the COVID-19 situation in the country

A fake Muslim fakir and his disciple who used to lie to devotees that they would cure them of coronavirus have been arrested by the Cyberabad police 
 

The 17-page "lockdown special" edition of the Islamic State (ISIS) magazine encourages violence to "kill Kuffars"

The three high throughput testing facilities have been set up strategically at ICMR institutions — National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research in Noida, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health in Mumbai and National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in Kolkata