COVID-19

Tantuja to supply 1.5 crore masks for school children

Local to Global: Khadi masks to hit foreign markets

11:48 am May 22, 2020

New Delhi: The widely popular Khadi face mask is set to go “global”. The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) will now explore the possibility of exporting the Khadi cotton and silk face masks to foreign countries after the Ministry of Commerce and Industries lifted the ban on export of non-medical/ non-surgical masks of all […]

RNA extraction kit Agappe Chitra Magna launched commercially for COVID-19 detection

11:12 am May 22, 2020

New Delhi: Dr VK Saraswat, NITI Aayog member and President of Institute body of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has announced here the commercial launch of Agappe Chitra Magna, a magnetic nanoparticle-based RNA extraction kit for use during testing for detection of COVID-19. The announcement was made by Dr VK […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Cost-effective kit used for coronavirus tests launched

11:12 pm May 21, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: A magnetic nanoparticle-based RNA extraction kit for use during tests for detection of COVID-19 was unveiled here on Thursday. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) announced the commercial launch of Agappe Chitra Magna, the RNA extraction kit. The kit uses an innovative technology for isolating RNA using magnetic nanoparticles to […]

Chhattisgarh: Garment unit run by women to make CRPF uniforms

CRPF’s ASI succumbs to coronavirus in Delhi

7:31 pm May 21, 2020

New Delhi: A 50-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Central Reserve Police Force has succumbed to COVID-19 here, officials said on Thursday. This is the second death linked to the pandemic in the country’s largest paramilitary force, which has 3.25 lakh personnel, and the seventh among the five paramilitary or Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) of […]

Australia lets woman travel to see dying sister

11:26 am May 21, 2020

Bangkok: A New Zealand woman has been reunited with her dying sister in Australia after gaining an exemption from pandemic travel restrictions on compassionate grounds. Australia had rejected Christine Archer’s request for permission to fly from New Zealand four times before her story attracted media attention. Her only sister Gail Baker was diagnosed with incurable […]