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New Delhi, Oct 8 : The world missed most of the 2020 mental health targets, and has failed to provide people with the mental health services they need, at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic is highlighting a growing need for mental health support, acc…

Kathmandu, Oct 8 : After much delay and criticism, Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Friday expanded his cabinet and gave it full shape, after serving nearly three months in office.Deuba was sworn-in as the Prime Minister on July 13 and had …

Seoul, Oct 8 : Twenty-two draftees at an Army boot camp just south of the inter-Korean border have tested positive for Covid-19, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.The newly-enlisted soldiers at the boot camp of the Army’s Fifth Division in the bord…

Washington, Oct 8 : More than 120,000 children in the US have lost a primary caregiver — a parent or grandparent responsible for providing housing, basic needs and care — due to Covid-19, revealed a new study.The study published in the medical jour…

San Francisco, Oct 8 : Social networking giant Facebook has announced new mental health resources, tools and programming across its apps, ahead of the World Mental Health Day on October 10. “Facebook is working with mental health experts and organisa…

London, Oct 8 : Researchers have identified an anti-viral gene that impacts the risk of both Alzheimer’s disease and severe Covid-19.A team from the University College London (UCL) estimated that one genetic variant of the OAS1 gene increases the ris…

Washington, Oct 8 : The global coronavirus caseload has topped 236.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.83 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.39 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.In its latest update on Frida…

Washington, Oct 8 : Staggering into the 19th month of its fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the US is ramping up efforts on triple fronts — vaccination, mandate and test — expecting to further contain the spread of the virus ahead of …

New Delhi, Oct 8 : Around 200 troops of China’s People’s Liberation Army entered into Indian territory last week leading to a face-off with the Indian Army at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh, sources said.It happened during a ro…

Geneva, Oct 8 : The World Health Organization (WHO) announced an initiative to vaccinate 40 per cent of the population of every country against Covid-19 by the end of 2021 and 70 per cent by mid-2022, by prioritising vaccine delivery to low-income c…