
After reports surfaced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold the emergency use authorisation of blood plasma therapy to treat severely ill Covid-19 patients, health experts in India on Friday stressed that the therapy should not be abandoned till the development of an effective vaccine against the virus....

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention to direct the Education Ministry to postpone the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) till Diwali, and warned of suicides by youths otherwise....

All nine persons trapped after a huge fire at an underground hydroelectric power station in Telangana were killed, officials said on Friday....

Former US Vice President Joe Biden has formally accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination to take on incumbent President Donald Trump in the November 3 election. ...

As Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday launched the state government's ambitious scheme 'Indira Rasoi' through a video conference under which full meal will be served to the needy for Rs 8, former CM and BJP leader Vasundhara Raje accused the state government of changing names of the schemes launched under the BJP's tenure....
Rescue efforts are on to rescue nine persons trapped in a fire mishap at TS Genco's hydel power station at Srisailam left bank canal in Nagarkurnool district of Telangana. ...

Blood plasma therapy that is being touted as the final resort to treat Covid-19 has not convinced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as it has put the emergency use authorisation for blood plasma to treat the deadly respiratory disease on hold, the media reported. ...

The total number of cases stood at 22,593,363 and the fatalities rose to 792,396, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update....

Dr Yogita Gautam, whose body was recovered from near a highway on Wednesday after she was killed by another doctor, Vivek Tiwari, will be long remembered for her courage and achievements....

The Supreme Court on Thursday gave lawyer Prashant Bhushan, convicted of contempt of court, time till August 24 to to submit an unconditional apology and asked him to reconsider his defiant statement declining to apologise for his derogatory tweets against the judiciary. ...