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The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has said that the foreign nationals, who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event held in Delhi in March this year, were made "scapegoats" and allegations were levelled that they were responsible for spreading COVID-19 in the country. A division bench of Justices TV Nalawade and MG Sewlikar made the observations on 21 August while quashing the FIRs filed against 29 foreigners, who had attended the event. The bench also noted that while the Maharashtra police acted mechanically in the case, the state government acted under "political compulsion". The 29 foreign nationals were booked under various provisions of the IPC, the Epidemic Diseases Act, Disaster Management Act and Foreigner's Act for allegedly violating their tourist visa conditions by attending the Tablighi Jamaat congregation held at Nizamuddin in the national capital. The bench in its order noted that there was a big propaganda agains...

New Delhi: A low-cost saliva test that will enable people to collect their own samples with minimal discomfort, without invasive nasal or throat swabs, could well be the way forward to detect the novel coronavirus, said scientists. Giving a thumbs up to the alternative testing technology that is yet to be introduced in India, scientists said it would deliver results faster and more accurately and also minimise the risk for healthcare workers collecting samples. The saliva-based COVID-19 diagnosis offers an improvement over standard nasopharyngeal swab methods because people can collect their own samples with ease - simply spit into a sterile tube and mail it to a lab for processing. "It is also unique because it does not require a separate nucleic acid (RNA) extraction step. This is significant because the extraction kits used for this step in other tests have been prone to shortages in the past," AR Anand, senior associate professor at Chennai's L&T Microbiology ...

The SAY (Save a Year) or improvement examinations for Kerala higher secondary, vocational higher secondary, technical higher secondary and art higher secondary is going to begin from 22 September. The Directorate of Higher Secondary Education or the DHSE published a notification on Thursday on its official website at http://www.dhsekerala.gov.in/ . The notification stated that the examinations will be conducted at a few select higher secondary schools in the state of Kerala. All schools in Lakshadweep and a few selected schools in the Gulf region will be also be holding the exams. The names of the SAY exam centres have been also published at the official site of the directorate. Those students, who could not appear for the examinations held from 26 May, 2020, because of the pandemic can register themselves for the subjects they could not appear for. According to Jagran Josh , students will be allowed to take up the improvement exams only for any one subject so that their overall e...

In mid-April, when the spread of COVID-19 pandemic beyond China's borders hadn’t yet led to a big loss of human lives, a study showed that steroid use could save many people killed by the novel coronavirus. Dr Hamid Merchant and Dr Syed Shahzad Hasan, researchers at the University of Huddersfield, England, found that using corticosteroids such as dexamethasone lowered the death rate due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) associated with severe COVID-19 cases. The two scientists analysed data related to COVID-19 patients who got severely ill and eventually lost the battle to it. These people were among those who were treated with corticosteroids. They found that 28 percent of those who were given this type of steroids died, but 69 percent of those in groups of patients who were not given corticosteroids also died. Their research has now been published in the Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine Journal after a long peer-review. This conclusion by Huddersfield scien...

In mid-April, when the spread of COVID-19 pandemic beyond China's borders hadn’t yet led to a big loss of human lives, a study showed that steroid use could save many people killed by the novel coronavirus. Dr Hamid Merchant and Dr Syed Shahzad Hasan, researchers at the University of Huddersfield, England, found that using corticosteroids such as dexamethasone lowered the death rate due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) associated with severe COVID-19 cases. The two scientists analysed data related to COVID-19 patients who got severely ill and eventually lost the battle to it. These people were among those who were treated with corticosteroids. They found that 28 percent of those who were given this type of steroids died, but 69 percent of those in groups of patients who were not given corticosteroids also died. Their research has now been published in the Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine Journal after a long peer-review. This conclusion by Huddersfield scien...

Srinagar:  An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir''s Baramulla district on Saturday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Check-i-Saloosa area of Kreeri in north Kashmir's Baramulla district this morning after receiving specific information about the presence of militants, a police official said. Militants fired at the forces as they were conducting searches in the area. The security forces retaliated, resulting in an encounter in which one militant killed. His identity and group affiliation is being ascertained, the police official said. from Firstpost India Latest News https://ift.tt/32evysf Press Trust of India

The Border Security Force shot dead five intruders along the India-Pakistan International Border in Punjab early Saturday, a senior BSF officer said. This is the highest number of intruders killed in a single incident along the over 3,300 km-long border with Pakistan in more than a decade, officials said. Punjab shares a 553-km-long frontier with Pakistan, apart from Jammu, Rajasthan and Gujarat, who together constitute the remaining part of the International Border. The senior officer said "alert troops of the 103rd battalion noticed suspicious movement of intruders violating the IB" in the Taran Taran district of Punjab. When asked to stop, the intruders fired on BSF troops who retaliated in self-defence. Subsequently, five intruders were shot dead, he said. Another BSF official said the incident happened around 4:45 am near the 'dal' border post that is close to the Bhikhiwind town of the district. BSF troops, officials said, first noticed suspicious activit...