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New Delhi: India reported 14,092 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, a marginal decline from the previous day’s count of 15,815 Covid, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the same period, the country has reported 41 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,27,037. Meanwhile, the active caseload has marginally […]

Hyderabad: The Covid-19 pandemic and its adverse impact on the world held back Hyderabad from pulling away a sizeable chunk of Bengaluru’s corporate clientele, especially the ones that were looking for large format office space. According to a report released by the Vestian, a commercial real estate service provider, Hyderabad witnessed extraordinary office traction in […]

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19 and is in isolation as per protocol. “Congress President Smt Sonia Gandhi has tested positive for Covid-19 today. She will remain in isolation as per Govt. protocol,” informed party’s general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh in a tweet. Earlier, she had tested […]

New York: Nearly 30 percent of children who were hospitalised for Covid-19 or MIS-C, a rare but covid-related severe condition, had symptoms more than a couple of months after their diagnosis, finds a new study. The study revealed the most common symptoms for children hospitalised with Covid-19 were fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, headache, muscle […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Friday reported 476 Covid positive infections out of which 239 were from areas under GHMC, 26 infections each from Rangareddy and Medchal-Malkajgiri districts. With no fatalities getting reported, the total number deaths due to Covid-19 on Friday has remained at 4,111 while the number of active Covid cases has reached 3,763. A […]

New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said that she has tested positive for Covid infection for the second time in two months. Taking to Twitter, she said: “Tested positive for Covid (again!) today. Will be isolating at home and following all protocols,” she said in a tweet. The Congress general secretary had also […]

Hyderabad: The Phase I of World Trade Centre (WTC), Shamshabad, will be ready by 2025. It will be about 15 lakh sq ft and will employ about 5,000 to 8,000 people. This Phase will see an investment of Rs 500-750 crore, Y Varaprasad Reddy, Vice Chairman, WTC Shamshabad said. The multi-phase WTC Shamshabad is being […]

London: A team of international researchers from the UK, US and Germany, has built a new easy-to-use test that could diagnose non-infectious diseases like heart attacks and cancers more quickly. The new test, called CrisprZyme, works by detecting molecular signals in the body called biomarkers, which are already used in things like Covid-19 testing where the […]

Hyderabad: Covid has hit the transport segment severely. Thousands of operators across India were impacted severely. The industry has been through a debilitating period and it is still recovering from the havoc created by the lockdowns and pandemic,” said Prasanna Patwardhan, President, Bus & Car Operators Confederation of India (BOCI). Speaking at the inaugural of […]

Hyderabad: The popular Sunday-Funday at Tank Bund will be revived from August 14 by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA). The decision to start the event again was taken following a suggestion made to MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao during the ‘Ask KTR’ session on Twitter. The Sunday-Funday programme which was started in 2021 turned […]

Hyderabad: Daily Covid infections in Telangana have continued to surge with authorities on Thursday reporting 1,061 positive cases, which is the highest since the third Omicron wave. With this the number of active infections in Telangana on Thursday rose to 6,357 with a recovery rate of 98.75 per cent. Out of the 1061 daily infections, […]

Hyderabad: Telangana on Wednesday reported 992 Covid positive infections taking the cumulative number of active Covid infections to 6,132. Out of the 992 daily infections, 376 positive cases were from areas under GHMC, 65 from Rangareddy, 57 from Karimnagar, 54 from Medchal-Malkajgiri, 37 each from Nalgonda and Nizamabad, 32 each from Yadadri Bhongir and Khammam. […]

New York: While there are reports of viral RNA and symptom rebound in people with Covid-19 treated with Pfizer’s Paxlovid, a study led by Indian-origin scientists showed that even without the antiviral treatment both symptoms of Covid as well as viral load can retake in about one in three. The study, not peer-reviewed yet and […]

Hyderabad: For the first time after the third Omicron wave, which lasted between November 2021 and January 2022, the daily Covid infections in Telangana has crossed the 1,000 mark. On Monday, a total of 1,054 individuals have tested Covid positive while on February 8 of this year, the number of daily Covid infections were 1,061. […]

Hyderabad: A two-day orientation programme under Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU)-UNICEF partnership on a project on Risk Communication and Community Engagement against Covid-19 ended on Saturday at the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, MANUU, Hyderabad. This is the second project undertaken by MANUU and UNICEF. Supporting the efforts of the government to create […]

Hyderabad: It has literally become a battle for supremacy to gain a firm footing in the community between different circulating variants of Omicron including BA.5, BA 2.75, BA 2.38 and to some extent even BA.2 that have triggered the ongoing surge of Covid infections in Telangana and elsewhere in the country, public health officials and […]

Hyderabad: From competing in Limca races to being the only person of Indian origin to win the half marathon in Antarctica, Mohan Ambati’s journey is a fascinating one. “It was a unique experience. It was like I was on a different planet, rather than a continent,” said Ambati, 53, a Hyderabadi settled in the United […]

Washington: President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a letter that Biden “has experienced no […]

Hyderabad: The post Covid world of cinema has its own convulsions and compulsions. However Tollywood (or for that matter the larger woods of Indian cinema) have an amazing blindness to writings on the wall. Resultantly this is so nerve testing that endurance and not entertainment becomes the cinematic factor. The larger than life cinema in […]

Hyderabad: After a period of six months, Telangana is witnessing a significant surge of daily Covid infections with authorities reporting 923 cases on Friday. On February 8 of this year, during the third Covid wave driven primarily by the earlier versions of Omicron variant including BA. 1 and BA.2, a total of 1,061 Covid infections […]