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Ladakh gets its first COVID-19 testing lab

6:22 pm April 27, 2020

Leh/Jammu: A COVID-19 laboratory has been set up in the Union Territory of Ladakh to ensure timely and cost-effective sample testing, officials said on Monday. Earlier, the samples had to be sent to Delhi by flights leading to delays and heavy expenditure, they said. The COVID-19 testing laboratory, first such facility in the union territory, […]

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Over half of flights cancelled in Asia Pacific due to Coronavirus scare: Boeing official

8:07 pm March 13, 2020

Hyderabad: Air traffic in China and other Asia Pacific countries has plummeted by more than half due to coronavirus scare, Darren Hulst, Vice president and global head of marketing,Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said on Friday. Speaking on the sidelines of ‘Wings India 2020’, an aviation related event here, he said China used to witness as many […]

Gold jumps Rs 773 on safe-haven appeal

6:54 pm March 6, 2020

New Delhi: Gold on Friday jumped Rs 773 to Rs 45,343 per 10 gram in the national capital as mounting worries over the economic fallout from the fast-spreading coronavirus drove investors towards the safe-haven metal. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 44,570 per 10 gram, according to HDFC Securities. Silver […]

Amazon partners with NULM to empower self-help groups

9:01 pm March 5, 2020

New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon has tied-up with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission to train, support and provide market access to artisans and self-help groups (SHGs) with the aim of helping small businesses in exploring wide markets through the platform. In the first phase, 2,500 […]

Trump picks Indian-American computer scientist to lead National Science Foundation

1:23 pm December 20, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump has picked Indian-American computer scientist Sethuraman Panchanathan to lead the prestigious National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a US government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Dr […]