New Delhi: Drug major Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has become the first Indian company to commercially launch an antiviral drug - Favipiravir with brand name FabiFlu - for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 patients. The company received marketing and manufacturing approval from the Indian drug regulator, Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), and launched the product in the Indian market today.

Bengaluru: Karnataka on Saturday recorded 416 fresh cases of Coronavirus taking the total number of cases in the state to 8,697. The state also reported eight death due to the virus between 5 pm on Friday and 5 pm on Saturday, a health bulletin by Health and Family Welfare Department informed on Saturday evening.

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has told the Delhi High Court that Google Pay is a third party app provider (TPAP) and does not operate any payment systems.

New Delhi: Indian Youth Congress on Saturday afternoon questioned the transparency of Narendra Modi led BJP Government at the Centre over the India-China standoff at the Ladakh LAC. The youth wing of the Indian National Congress took to its official twitter handle and added that the Prime Minister of the country had “Sold our country”.

New Delhi: A media body on Saturday described as "an act of intimidation" the filing of an FIR in Uttar Pradesh against a journalist over a report on the impact of the lockdown on a village, saying it was part of an "established pattern" of harassment of independent scribes.

The government-imposed upper and lower limits on airfares may be extended beyond August 24 depending upon how the situation turns out, Aviation Secretary P S Kharola said on Saturday.

Mangaluru: A 15-year boy died of drowning in Nethravathi River on Saturday afternoon near Jalakadakatte in Boliyar Village here on the outskirts of the city.

The NDA is now comfortably placed in the Rajya Sabha after the biennial election as the BJP's strong numbers in the assemblies and defection from the Opposition resulted in the saffron party having 86 seats in the House and the Congress merely 41.