The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s plea seeking directions to the Centre and states to ensure universal coverage of food security during the Covid-19 pandemic and asked him to make a representation to the Union government.
Senior advocate Salman Khurshid, appearing for Ramesh, said the issue raised in the petition relates to food security and the petitioner himself was instrumental in the framing of the National Food Security Act of 2013.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro’s proposed order has met strong resistance from business leaders and current and former officials, who argued that acting to curb imports could prompt China to curb urgently needed shipments of N95 masks and other protective equipment. The initial proposal was revised slightly but is still going through an interagency review process, according to the officials.

As cities in Asia, Australia and elsewhere get their coronavirus outbreaks underneath management, church buildings, faculties, eating places, film theaters and even sporting venues are beginning to open, creating a way of normalcy for individuals who have spent weeks and even months in isolation.

A recent report in the ‘Nature’ science journal revealed that patients with Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome might have up to 10 times greater risk of death when they contract COVID-19 and called for mandatory glucose and metabolic control of Type 2 diabetes patients to improve outcomes.

  Washington: As the US recorded more than 2,000 deaths on three consecutive days, President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on China on Thursday. He said that the World Health Organization should be ashamed of itself, and likened it to a public relations...

  Gilead Sciences, which manufactures remdesivir, is focused on making the experimental coronavirus drug accessible and affordable to as many people as possible once it is approved, Chief Executive Officer Daniel O’Day said on Friday.   Interest in...

A draft study abstract released inadvertently by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week said remdesivir failed to improve patients’ condition or reduce the pathogen’s presence in the bloodstream. The drugmaker said the findings were inconclusive because the study was terminated early.

The dramatic announcement by Dr Anthony Fauci in the Oval Office on Wednesday prompted concerns among scientists that the Trump administration was raising hopes about a coronavirus treatment before sharing the full data with researchers.

  NEW YORK : The city of New York delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefrigerated U-Haul vehicles, a Reuters eyewitness said.   The eyewitness saw bodies in a U-Haul van and said two...