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Sugar levels are not checked in 80 percent of the cases as the treatment is at home. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

High sugar levels add to Covid side effects

Patients are showing increased sugar levels due to use of steroids, psychological stress, sedentary lifestyle,...

17 May 2021 2:05 PM IST

The experts opined that currently most people are struggling from depression, anxiety, panic attacks and OCD. (Representational Image)

Covid fears leading to anxiety, mental stress

Six psychologists offer free counseling to victims, kin

15 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Maintaining emotional equanimity and staying strong is as important as medication and treatment. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Emotional immunity also key to recovery

Staying mentally strong helps overall immunity system fight off virus

14 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

The worst-hit sections are those whose jobs cannot be done from home.(Representational Image/PTI)

Work from home stress forcing people to venture out

Experts attribute this to livelihood challenges

5 April 2021 11:34 AM IST

Much of the loss was in the Amazon, including new areas that were deliberately cleared. (AFP file photo)

Sharp increase in destruction of virgin forest in 2020

Tropical forests continue to disappear rapidly, threatening irreparable losses to Earth's crucial biodiversity

31 March 2021 1:50 PM IST

A health worker holds a vial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 while Charles Chaplins movies are projected at the Lumiere movie theater, used as vaccination center, in Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina, on March 26, 2021. (Marcelo Manera / AFP)

'Dr Reddy's expects Sputnik V vaccine to get approval from Indian...

Dr Reddy's has partnered with the Russia Direct Investment Fund to bring the Sputnik V vaccine to India and other...

29 March 2021 2:18 PM IST

A medical worker takes a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 on March 24, 2021 at a vaccination hub outside Romes Termini railway station. (ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP)

AstraZeneca says vaccine 76% effective in updated US trial data

AstraZeneca was an early frontrunner in the global race to develop a COVID vaccine, and was heavily favored by the...

25 March 2021 11:36 AM IST

One asked me to look up the Internet for recipes, the other explained how to cook the kachnar.

Ranjona Banerji | What cooking teaches, how tastes are learned

I really learnt how to cook by experimentation. And by eating. To replicate tastes and memories

21 March 2021 4:27 AM IST

The rate of infection was five times higher, at 3.3 per cent, among those who returned a positive test during the second wave having previously tested negative. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

COVID-19 patients above 65 years of age more prone to reinfection,...

During this second wave, 2 per cent tested positive among those 65 or older who had previously not had COVID-19

19 March 2021 12:30 PM IST

Residents were shocked to find a newborn girl abandoned in a cesspit of a public toilet (Photo: AFP)

UN sounds alarm on South Asia child deaths due to COVID-19

The report said that even where health services were not shut down, the number of people visiting them declined

17 March 2021 1:11 PM IST

In this picture taken on December 20, 2020 shows diners interacting with robots Lovot in a cafe in Kawasaki. (Philip FONG / AFP)

Hi, Robot: Japan's android pets ease virus isolation

Tech firms in Japan are reporting huge demand for more humanlike alternatives, as people seek solace during coronavirus...

26 Feb 2021 11:45 AM IST

Praveenar Singh was first runner-up at the Ms Universe contest in Bangkok

Thai-Sikh girl wins Bangkok award, dreams of Bollywood

India has produced so many beauty queens, they are confident, smart, successful adds Praveenar Singh

23 Feb 2021 4:43 PM IST