A deadly pandemic with mysterious origins: it might sound like a modern headline, but scientists have spent centuries debating the source of the Black Death that devastated the medieval world. Not anymore, according to researchers who say they have pinpointed the source of the plague to a region ...

When the Covid-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization in 2020 and several countries, one after another, including India, began to declare nationwide or partial lockdowns, forcing many people to stay inside their homes, the digital connectivity boomed. People went to internet ...

DA Hike 7th Pay Commission: Central government employees and pensioners are waiting in anticipation for another hike in their Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR). They are hoping for another DA hike especially in the scenario of the latest All-India Consumer Price Index (AICPI) data ...

Before acknowledging its first domestic COVID-19 cases, North Korea spent 2 1/2 years rejecting outside offers of vaccines and steadfastly claiming that its superior socialist system was protecting its 26 million people from “a malicious virus" that had killed millions around the world.Its ...

Washington: Omicron may be intrinsically as severe as previous coronavirus variants, according to a US study which contradicts assumptions that the strain was more transmissible but less severe. The yet-to-be-published study, posted as preprint on Research Square on May 2, adjusted for factors ...

It is a strange sight of a paradox in London, as soon as one lands at Heathrow Airport. While Covid cases have been surging in the United Kingdom, few are wearing face masks as the requirement has been dropped in England, alongside lifting most pandemic curbs.Travel to the UK is restriction-free ...

Daily prune consumption can prevent bone loss at the hip and protect against increased fracture risk in postmenopausal women, cites a new study. The findings of the study led by the Pennsylvania State University have been published in the journal, ‘The Advances in Nutrition’.The research was the ...

Covid-19 is again surging in Western Europe due to a “perfect storm" of governments lifting restrictions, waning immunity and the more contagious BA.2 Omicron subvariant, experts said Monday.After more than a month of falling cases across much of the continent, countries such as Britain, France, ...

As the world marks two years of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than six million people globally, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday cautioned that it would be a "grave mistake" to think the crisis is over and voiced concern that nearly three billion people are still ...

(CNN) — An average of more than 60% of women living in G7 countries whose lives were changed by the Covid-19 pandemic say their governments did not provide them with much of the support they needed to deal with those changes, according to a far-reaching new poll by CNN.These exclusive findings ...