Private Labs

Two private labs conducted 22 lakh tests in 2023, with 65,000 identified as fake. The government paid Rs 4.63 crore for these tests.

Police have started a probe after a private school in Sagar district was found to be in possession of a human foetus, an official said on Saturday.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Wednesday gave his nod to a proposal of the Arvind Kejriwal government to outsource private diagnostic and lab services to mohalla clinics.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) said it had conducted searches on the premises of one of the directors of crypto exchange WazirX, and has issued an order to freeze their bank balances over Rs 60 crore. The ED has been conducting Money Laundering investigation against a number of Indian non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and their fintech par...

Google's new report has revealed how Italy-based RCS Lab helped to hack Apple and Android smartphones in Italy, Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, Google said it had taken steps to protect users of its Android operating system and alerted them about the spyware.

The Internet watchdog Citizen Lab has been remarkably effective in calling to account governments and private sector firms that use information technology to put people in peril.

The Delhi government on Thursday capped the cost of conventional RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 detection in private hospitals and labs at Rs 300, a 40 per cent reduction from the earlier rate, according to an order.

A probe was ordered against a private laboratory after a number of flyers who reached Amritsar in Punjab from Italy tested positive for COVID-19 amid allegations by several of them that their test reports were incorrect, health officials said.

One of the two men found positive for Omicron in Karnataka "escaped" after taking a Covid negative certificate from a private lab, the state government said Friday.

On Friday Nov. 19, Raquel Viana, Head of Science at one of South Africa's biggest private testing labs, sequenced the genes on eight coronavirus samples - and got the shock of her life.

The Kerala High Court on Monday quashed the Kerala government's order to reduce charges of RT-PCR tests in private laboratories to Rs 500 from Rs 1,700.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) cannot be sitting in an ivory tower and said that it should look into the complaints relating to private pathology laboratories.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has informed the Delhi High Court that National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) certification is must for enrollment of private labs for COVID-19 testing.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has urged the government to block virtual private networks (VPNs) in India, citing VPN services as a “technological challenge” that could lead to growing number of cybercrimes.

A ward boy of a government hospital at Khamgaon in Maharashtra's Buldhana district was arrested for allegedly replacing the swab samples in the lab to facilitate the employees of a private company get positive COVID-19 report for medical leave.

Two private labs conducted 22 lakh tests in 2023, with 65,000 identified as fake. The government paid Rs 4.63 crore for these tests.

Police have started a probe after a private school in Sagar district was found to be in possession of a human foetus, an official said on Saturday.

Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Wednesday gave his nod to a proposal of the Arvind Kejriwal government to outsource private diagnostic and lab services to mohalla clinics.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) said it had conducted searches on the premises of one of the directors of crypto exchange WazirX, and has issued an order to freeze their bank balances over Rs 60 crore. The ED has been conducting Money Laundering investigation against a number of Indian non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and their fintech par...

Google's new report has revealed how Italy-based RCS Lab helped to hack Apple and Android smartphones in Italy, Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, Google said it had taken steps to protect users of its Android operating system and alerted them about the spyware.

The Internet watchdog Citizen Lab has been remarkably effective in calling to account governments and private sector firms that use information technology to put people in peril.

The Delhi government on Thursday capped the cost of conventional RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 detection in private hospitals and labs at Rs 300, a 40 per cent reduction from the earlier rate, according to an order.

A probe was ordered against a private laboratory after a number of flyers who reached Amritsar in Punjab from Italy tested positive for COVID-19 amid allegations by several of them that their test reports were incorrect, health officials said.

One of the two men found positive for Omicron in Karnataka "escaped" after taking a Covid negative certificate from a private lab, the state government said Friday.

On Friday Nov. 19, Raquel Viana, Head of Science at one of South Africa's biggest private testing labs, sequenced the genes on eight coronavirus samples - and got the shock of her life.

The Kerala High Court on Monday quashed the Kerala government's order to reduce charges of RT-PCR tests in private laboratories to Rs 500 from Rs 1,700.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said that ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) cannot be sitting in an ivory tower and said that it should look into the complaints relating to private pathology laboratories.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has informed the Delhi High Court that National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) certification is must for enrollment of private labs for COVID-19 testing.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has urged the government to block virtual private networks (VPNs) in India, citing VPN services as a “technological challenge” that could lead to growing number of cybercrimes.

A ward boy of a government hospital at Khamgaon in Maharashtra's Buldhana district was arrested for allegedly replacing the swab samples in the lab to facilitate the employees of a private company get positive COVID-19 report for medical leave.