At a time when transparency and awareness of threat from coronavirus is crucial to ensure safety of people, conflicting reports about a corporation facility operating after a few officials were tested positive are making employees uneasy.

Once lockdown is lifted, metro trains will ferry only 160 people in each commute so passengers can maintain social distancing.

The Tamil Nadu government has constituted a committee comprising of economists, industrialists, bankers and educationists to assess the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the state. It will present a report to the state government in three months.

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to keep the new Electricity (Amendment) Bill in abeyance till the proposed changes are thoroughly discussed with state governments. In a letter, he said the Bill goes against the rights of states and was detrimental to public interest.

As Chennai still grapples with scanty containment zone management and spike in the number of positive cases, other districts in the state have succeeded in flattening the curve using effective containment strategy.

The state government on Saturday further eased the lockdown restrictions in non-containment areas, including permission for take-away services at tea shops, and allowing shops selling essential goods such as groceries, vegetables and medicines to remain open from 6am to 7pm, across the state from Monday.

All the 356 passengers who arrived from Dubai by the first two rescue flights were sent to quarantine centres after their throat and nasal swabs were taken at Chennai airport on Saturday. The first flight IX 612 had 179 passengers and the second 177.

Since the lockdown began, police inspector M Kalaiyarasan has been on double duty. After work, he has been busy doing the rounds in Kumaran Nagar area distributing food.

For almost 50 days of the Covid-imposed lockdown, our factories have remained shut, academic schedules upset, malls and theatres locked and infrastructure work stalled. The virus has stopped us in our tracks. But not forever.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Chennai.

A woman died during treatment at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) on Saturday after she was allegedly thrashed by her husband Vinay Ram and other in-laws for opposing his illicit relationship with his aunt and brother’s wife (sister-in-law).

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday asked state’s chief secretary Deepak Kumar to take necessary steps to create employment opportunities for returning migrant workers as per the outcome of their skill survey.

At least four companies of Bihar Military Police (BMP), which were deployed in Patna, have been withdrawn from field duty as a precautionary measure after six Covid-19 positive cases in the 14th battalion were reported till Friday evening.

: Hundreds of students from Bihar, who are still stranded in other states, are desperate to take the first train or flight back to their native places. They stay in private accommodations and are finding in difficult to arrange for food after running out of money amid the Covid-19 lockdown.

A 16-year-old girl, whose migrant worker father is stranded in Ahmedabad due to the lockdown, was gangraped by five youths at a Darbhanga village.

Even as a large number of cases are being reported from para-military forces in other states, Bihar is yet to record any Covid-19 case among the personnel posted in the state.

With Muzaffarpur too entering the state Covid-19 map with three positive cases on Saturday, Bihar’s green zones is expected to shrink further in the revised list of color-coded zones likely to be released by the Centre on Monday. Jamui is now the only one out of the 38 districts with no positive cases so far.

Proteomic analysis of peripheral cells reveals aspects of psychiatric disorder.

A proteomic study reveals wide-ranging protein differences among brain cells treated with various concentrations of PBDE-99.

Response to partial removal of small intestine analyzed.

Researchers develop an MS shotgun proteomic method to tackle small numbers of cancer cells in blood.

Two recent head-to-head comparisons show that 1DE provides the best results versus chromatography- and IEF-based approaches.

Proteins from gingival crevicular fluid may provide a window on periodontitis.

UPLC/FTICR MS provides detailed metabolic signatures of Chilean red wines, which can be distinguished by vintage, vineyard of origin, production year, and quality.

Researchers find that morphologically normal cells near a tumor have undergone molecular changes similar to the tumor cells.

Glycolysis protein expression becomes altered in skeletal muscle proteome when humans are exposed to cold or overfed.

Dietary capsaicin elicits proteomic shifts in rats fed a high-fat diet.

The changes in protein expression common to several cancerous cell lines focus attention on cell spreading and focal adhesion kinase.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from Hyderabad.

The sugarcane growers have expressed their indignation over the proposal of the government to shut down the Sanjivani sugar factory at Dharbandora.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, even as the state has entered the Green Zone, for the South Goa mining belt residents, it is the fear of being run over by a mining truck that is keeping them indoors.

Goa police has decided to conduct random checks at government offices, shops and public places and act against those who do not wear masks and follow social distancing norms.

After increasing the value added tax (VAT) on petrol in April, the state government on Saturday hiked VAT on diesel to 22%, pushing the fuel’s price up by Rs 2.05 per litre.