Eminent river engineer and former professor of civil engineering at IIT in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof. U.K. Choudhary has said that the judicious use of river technology can help resolve the Coronavirus crisis as well as the plight of Ganga river.
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Andhra Pradesh reported 68 new cases on Wednesday morning, taking the overall tally of COVID-19 cases in the state to 2,407. The state nodal officer reported that 9,159 samples were tested during the 24 hours ending 10 a.m., Wednesday....
More than 160 seafarers from Italy landed at Goa's Dabolim international airport by a special chartered plane on Wednesday and were being examined for Covid-19, an official said....
Class X and XII students who study in Goan schools, but live in villages just across the state's borders in Maharashtra and Karnataka, will be accommodated in exam centres within their respective states, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday.
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Three people succumbed to COVID-19 in Karnataka and 127 new positive cases, highest single day rise, have emerged in the past 19 hours, raising the state's tally to 1373, an official said on Tuesday.
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A Covid-19 patient died in Assam on Monday taking the state's fatality to three, while five more tested coronavirus positive in the past 24 hours raising the state's tally to 102, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, here on Monday.
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After 56 days of extended lockdown, Karnataka would observe a total lockdown only on Sundays till May 31, while shops would reopen and bus services resume from Tuesday, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa said on Monday....
Saying that critically ill COVID-19 patients may be at high risk for developing renal failure, venous blood clots, and other complications associated with blood clots, such as stroke, researchers have emphasised on the need for early screening.
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Barely 48 hours after America's top infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci warned of suffering and death if states reopen too quickly, Dr Rick Bright, a government whistleblower who was recently fired by the Trump administration, delivered chilling testimony saying that the US faces the "darkest winter in modern history" unless...
