New York, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Of the 208,297 COVID-19 tests reported in New York State, 11,271 were positive, or 5.41 per cent of the total, up from 4.84 per cent one day earlier, tweeted Governor…
By Nikhila Natarajan United Nations, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the world awaits the first wave of Covid-19 vaccinations, the chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), hailed the “incremental” nature of scientific progress that…
By Nikhila Natarajan United Nations, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Scientists from BioNTech and Astra Zeneca which are at the bleeding edge of coronavirus vaccine development revealed little known details of the origin stories of their frantic…
Bengaluru, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Lauding the Union government’s efforts to get the Covid vaccine rolled out early, former Prime Minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda on Friday said the vaccine should be…
Bengaluru, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) New cases at 1,247 outnumbered 877 recoveries on a day across Karnataka, taking its Covid tally to a whopping 8,90,360, including 25,046 active cases till Thursday, said the state health bulletin…
Amaravati, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Andhra Pradesh has registered 599 new Covid positive cases, increasing the state’s tally to 8.7 lakh, even as 913 more patients recovered from the virus on Friday. Krishna district accounted for…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bengaluru-based private satellite company Syzygy Space Technologies Pvt Ltd, commonly known as Pixxel, plans to have its constellation of 30 small earth observation satellites up in the sky…
Chennai, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Friday that NewSpace India Limited, the commercial arm of the Department of Space, has entered into a launch agreement with the country’s private…
Mumbai, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maharashtra’s Covid-19 deaths remained on the upswing, staying past the 100-mark although new infections dropped and recoveries improved, health authorities said on Friday. The state reported 127 deaths, taking up the…
Bengaluru, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Following the expected Covid -19 second wave scenario in month of January or February, Karnataka Health and family welfare minister K. Sudhakar on Friday said that the government is mulling over…
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kerala on Friday recorded 5,718 new Covid cases out of 57,456 samples sent for testing in the past 24 hours, state Health Minister K.K. Shailaja said. In a statement issued here,…
Chandigarh, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Eminent India-born US scientist and patron of Sikh arts and literature, Narinder Singh Kapany (94), passed away in California on Friday. He is survived by his son and daughter. In a…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) With more than 85,000 tests for Covid-19 in a single day, the national capital conducted a record number of tests on Friday since the pandemic struck the city, as per…
New York Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) US-based drugmaker Moderna has said that it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine available globally in the first quarter of 2021….
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Wearable brand Fitbit has offered replacements for some users of its Sense smartwatch after it discovered a bug in the electrocardiogram (ECG) feature that affected the readings, the media reported…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Epic Games, developer of popular battle royale game Fortnite, in partnership with OnePlus on Friday announced that its India oriented Bhangra Boogie Cup for Android smartphones will kick off on…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Google has updated its Street View app on Android and now, anyone can share their photos with Street View and create connected photos with just a smartphone. The users can…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Domestic tech-lifestyle brand Noise on Friday launched six new affordable products including its first-ever wireless speaker and Bluetooth headphones, at a starting price of Rs 799. The company introduced one…
Seoul, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) China’s media regulator has approved a South Korean video game for the first time in nearly four years in what could be a relaxation of economic retaliation. China’s National Press and…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The payments industry on Friday welcomed the Reserve Bank of India’s move to hike the limit of contactless card transaction from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000. The announcement by Reserve…