The scheme will begin on May 21, and the lending agencies will accept applications until August 31. The banks and credit societies have been asked to finish all disbursements by November 15, 2020.

The primary trigger is the poor financial condition and revenue collection abilities of most state discoms.

A group of molecules that should be fighting the virus are diminished with age and chronic health problems, researchers report in the journal Aging and Disease.

In the hunt for a virus, over 20,000 people worldwide have volunteered to infect themselves with coronavirus. How frequent are such trials, what is the objective, and what precautions are taken?

Educationists and policymakers, especially of countries where schools have never remained closed for such extended periods, are now looking at the West Africa experience for important insights into the short- and long-term consequences of government-mandated…

There is no sure way of knowing how much the government will spend at the end of this financial year, but most calculations suggest that far from the promised 10% of GDP, the actual government expenditure in the Atmanirbhar package is just 1%.

To begin with, this will be reflected in the state-specific lockdown guidelines that will be issued by today or in the coming days.

According to BCCI sources, any proper discussion about the IPL will start only in August.

India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases: Till now, the number of new cases being reported every day more or less followed a pattern that had been set prior to the easing of the lockdown. In fact, the doubling time of cases had been consistently on the decline…

South Korea’s LGBTQ community fear this singling out of the community would only increase the discrimination and harassment they face and prevent them from getting tested due to fears of being identified and the possibility of their personal information being…

It is still not clear why some individuals infected with the disease remain asymptomatic, while there are others who develop mild or moderate symptoms and some who get critically ill and succumb to the disease.

Can you travel to Noida and Gurgaon? Can you go for a haircut? All your questions answered.

Lockdown 4.0 guidelines: Most things are allowed — so what isn’t? What’s the logic of the 7 pm-7 am ‘night curfew’? Have states really got a lot of new power they can use in Lockdown 4.0?

Reproduction number is the average number of individuals infected by each infectious person. At the start of an epidemic when everyone in a population is considered susceptible, epidemiologists estimate ‘basic reproduction number’, or R0.

In this first edition of E-Xplained last week, he explained a range of issues related to India’s battle against Covid-19 to a large Zoom audience from across the country.

Police have been deployed in a number of duties relating to the outbreak and lockdown, including in high-risk areas.

In the Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania travel bubble, residents would be able to travel freely by rail, air, and sea without quarantine measures.

India Coronavirus (Covid-19) Cases: As lockdown restrictions get progressively eased, to varying degrees in different states, the number of cases being reported daily are expected to shoot up, and signs of that already happening have begun to emerge.

In its new guidelines, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has allowed all offices to run at 100 per cent capacity, even though work from home is encouraged to the extent possible.

How can you ensure the virus is not transmitted through home-delivered food, medicine strips, and packaged items? As offices reopen, what should you be careful about?

When the COVID-19 outbreak surfaced, many in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community suddenly found that the epidemic was at their doorstep. Why was there a spike in infection numbers among members of the community?