Hyderabad

DRDO designs disinfection chamber, spl face mask

DRDO designs disinfection chamber, special face mask

10:49 am April 5, 2020

New Delhi: Joining efforts to fight COVID-19, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has designed a full-body disinfection chamber and a special face protection mask for healthcare professionals, officials said. The special chamber called ‘PSE’ has been designed by Vehicle Research Development Establishment (VRDE), Ahmednagar, a DRDO Laboratory. The walk through enclosure is designed […]

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Over 1,000 people returning to AP stranded at borders

12:41 am March 26, 2020

Amaravati: More than 1,000 people who set off from Hyderabad, the capital of neighbouring Telangana, to various districts in Andhra Pradesh were stranded since Wednesday afternoon at the Garikapadu check-post on the inter-state border as the police refused to allow them passage. Intervention of the local MLA and Government Whip Samineni Udayabhanu did not help […]

Private labs to soon scale up COVID-19 testing

11:55 pm March 24, 2020

New Delhi: Private diagnostic players, who have been allowed to conduct coronavirus tests, on Tuesday said they will soon scale up their testing facilities for Covid-19. As part of efforts to ramp up testing centres across the country, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) put out a list of private labs authorised to do […]

Telangana observes ‘Janata curfew’

6:46 pm March 22, 2020

Hyderabad: Roads in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana wore a deserted look on Sunday as people participated volunatarily in the ‘Janata curfew‘ proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help check the spread of coronavirus. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had on Saturday called for a 24-hour voluntary curfew from 6 am on […]

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Case booked for spreading fake news on coronavirus

8:10 pm March 16, 2020

Hyderabad: A case was booked on Monday against an unknown person for allegedly spreading fake news about coronavirus (COVID-19) in the social media, police said here. The case was booked under section 54 (punishment for false warning) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, following a complaint by a police official who stated that one unknown […]