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Over 1.1 lakh Indian children lost a parent during Covid pandemic, Lancet study says According to the study, there was an estimated 8.5-fold increase in new orphans in India from 5,091 children in March to 43,139 in April 2021. Mohana Basu 22 July, 2021 8:00 am IST A+ New Delhi: More than 1.1 lakh children in India have lost a parent to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study in The Lancet.  The study, published Wednesday, estimated that around 15 lakh children across the globe lost a parent or guardian to Covid-19. In India, as many as 1,86,972 childr...

Controversial NCBS-Bengaluru study of bat viruses in Nagaland, believed to be over in 2019, continues. ICMR mum on probe. Govt doesn't want to own up either study or probe.

As we resent B.1.617 being called ‘Indian variant’ or sneer at sub-Saharan Kenya’s Covid aid, think of the real embarrassment ahead unless our heartland changes.

B.1.117 to B.1.618, India has many Covid variants causing infections. Here are the dominant ones Covid lineages, which are sets of genetic mutations, have been circulating across India with a varying range of prevalence. A look at the ones that have emerged during the pandemic. Text Size: A+ New Delhi: In the last 60 days, the B.1.617 lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has sped ahead in the evolutionary arms race of the viral spread in India, leaving behind almost all other lineages circulating in India. A lineage is defined by a set of genetic mutations that alter some of the amino acids (...

Text Size: A+ Narendra Modi, with his consecutive majorities, has been promising India a never-seen resurgence. What we are seeing, at the same time, is a return to that old, familiar ‘ door hato ai duniya waalo, Hindustan hamara hai (stay away, world, hands off my India)’ neurosis. In just over two weeks, we have seen the British High Commissioner summoned for admonition because his Parliament discussed India’s farmers’ protests. The government and its more vocal supporters, at many levels, took self-righteous umbrage at a Western and foreign (US)-funded foundation like Freedom ...