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New Delhi: The government on Saturday allowed the use of the low-cost steroid drug dexamethasone as an alternative to methylprednisolone to treat coronavirus patients with moderate and severe symptoms. The World Health Organization had called for a rapid increase in production of dexamethasone, after British clinical trials found it had life-saving potential for critically-ill coronavirus patients. The Union Health Ministry has put a revised version of "Clinical Management Protocol: COVID-19" - a document published for use by health professionals as a reference . Earlier this month, the ministry had added the loss of smell and taste as new symptoms of COVID-19…

NASA has released a stunning 10-year time-lapse video of the Sun, condensing a decade of activity into one hour. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. While orbiting around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun.  The time-lapse footage shows the rise and fall in activity that occurs as part of the Sun's 11-year solar cycle and has helped scientists understand more about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. The Sun's magnetic field goes through a cycle, called the…

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be addressing a key press conference at 12:00 pm to address the COVID-19 situation in the national capital. Earlier today, Kejriwal informed the people of the highest number of tests (21,144) being carried out in Delhi in a single day. " Delhi conducted highest no of tests in a single day yesterday- 21,144. We have increased testing 4 times. Delhi now following the strategy of very aggressive testing and isolation," Kejriwal Tweeted.  Delhi has had a revamped plan to counter COVID-19 after the intervention of the Central govt. Kejriwal was locked in a series…

New Delhi: The results for class 10th and class 12th UP board examinations have been released by the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad on Saturday. The UPMSP declared the results at upmsp.educ.in or upresults.nic.in. The students waiting for the results can also receive their scorecard on mobile phones via SMS. Class 10th students can receive their results by sending ‘UP10ROLLNUMBER’ to 56263, while the class 12th students have to send ‘UP12ROLLNUMBER’ on the same number. As per the official data, a total of around 56 lakh students appeared for the class 10th and class 12th board exams this year. Around 30,24,632 candidates registered for…

Nearly 1,100 teams comprising two members each have been formed to conduct the mega exercise. This is the biggest practice of coronavirus screening in the national capital. According to the 2011 Census, there were over 34.35 lakh households in the national capital, including 33.56 lakh in urban areas and 79,574 in rural areas. The teams are armed with a mobile application which will send real-time details to a dedicated web portal set up by the government. Apart from basic details like name, age, address and contact number, the teams are feeding the mobile application with information such as every individual's…

New Delhi: Authorities in Delhi will undertake a mammoth exercise from today to determine the spread of the coronavirus disease amid a rising number of cases in the national capital, which is one of the worst affected in the country. The serological survey -- part of the new COVID-19 response plan -- is expected to help officials prepare a broad strategy to combat the pandemic. The exercise will be jointly taken up by the Delhi government and the National Centre for Disease Control between June 27 and July 10. "As per the directives of HM @AmitShah, discussion was done on the serological…