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COVID-19 pandemic will push 47 million more women, girls into extreme poverty by 2021: UN

The COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately affect women and push 47 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021, reversing decades of progress...

Face masks with exhale valves may hamper COVID-19 mitigation efforts: Study

Face masks with exhale valves and face shields may not be as effective as regular masks in restricting the spread of aerosol droplets, and...

BCCI adds CRED to its list of official IPL partners

The BCCI on Wednesday announced CRED, a credit card payment platform, as its official partner for three seasons of the Indian Premier League. The...

Opening up societies too quickly amid COVID-19 pandemic ‘recipe for disaster’: WHO chief

The head of the World Health Organisation has warned that opening up societies too quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic is a "recipe for disaster"....

UNSC reform talks being ‘held hostage’, used as ‘convenient smokescreen’ by some nations: India

The intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform are being "held hostage" and used as a "convenient smokescreen" by countries that do not wish to...

India to receive development assistance loan worth Rs 3,500 Cr from Japan to fight COVID-19

Japan has committed an official Development Assistance loan of 3 thousand 500 crore rupees for the COVID-19 Crisis Emergency Response Support. The Notes were...

Scientists develop portable point-of-care COVID-19 test

Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a prototype of a rapid COVID-19 test using a simple-to-use portable instrument for reading the results with...

Chinese, Indians constitute 48 percent of foreign students in US in 2019: Report

Chinese and Indians accounted for 48 per cent of all active foreign students in the US in 2019, according to an official report. A...