Coronavirus The frenzy for at-home testing has turned the kits into a commodity and even made them covetable holiday presents. Rapid at-home Covid-19 test kits in Chelsea, Massachusetts. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images By Gina Cherelus and Anna P. Kambhampaty, New York Times Service December 22, 2021 When Amir Blumenfeld was deciding what to buy…Continue Reading
Coronavirus A sense of dread about the variant’s rapid spread is growing even in places that had experienced a virus lull. Travelers in Boston Logan International Airport on Tuesday. M. Scott Brauer / The New York Times By Patricia Mazzei, New York Times Service December 22, 2021 MIAMI — The omicron variant has turned a…Continue Reading
A day after rescuing two minor girls, who had been abducted by their private tutor in Bhubaneswar, from Sambalpur, the Badagada police on Thursday put the teacher under arrest and handed over the girls to their parent’s custody. An official at the Badagada police station said the private tutor, identified as Gopalkrushna Badatia, has been…Continue Reading
China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi’an following a spike in coronavirus cases.The measure comes just weeks before the country hosts the Winter Olympics in Beijing, roughly 1,000 kilometers (6210 miles) to the west.There was no word on whether…Continue Reading
Hundreds of resident doctors at Cuttack’s SCB Medical College and Hospital launched a protest in front of the hospital premises on Thursday (Dec 23) demanding NEET PG counseling in the state. This comes amid the ongoing protests launched by resident doctors across the country seeking the government to pay heed to their demands. As per…Continue Reading
A blast inside the district court complex here on Thursday left one person dead and three injured, police said.The blast that took place in the wash room of the second floor of the court complex was so powerful that one of the walls in the complex got damaged and windows of some vehicles parked in…Continue Reading
AstraZeneca’s Vaxzevria [Recombinant] significantly boosted levels of antibodies against the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant following a third dose booster, according to data from a new laboratory study.Neutralisation titres for Omicron were boosted following a third dose with Vaxzevria compared to titres after a second dose.The levels seen after the third dose booster were higher than the…Continue Reading
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (December 23) said that to rejuvenate the mother earth and to secure the future of the coming generations, we must once again turn to natural farming. PM Modi was speaking during a political rally in one of the most popular cities in India’s northern state Uttar Pradesh -…Continue Reading
From January 1, 2022, the way Indians use their credit/debit cards and transact at ATMs will change. There has been a significant increase in internet penetration across the country, which opens the door for cybercrime. As a result, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised all merchants and payment gateways not to store client…Continue Reading
We have all seen Christmas decorations hanging on the Christmas trees, also on walls and ceilings, but do we know where these Christmas balls and bells are made? Kashmir’s famed Paper Mache artisans start months before the festival to make these decorative pieces. Millions of paper mache decorative pieces are sold to customers across the…Continue Reading