Coronavirus

New Delhi: Indian Railways on Tuesday made it mandatory for passengers availing the special AC trains to install the government’s Aarogya Setu app. “Indian Railways is going to start few passenger train services. It is mandatory for…

New Delhi: The country’s COVID-19 tally touched 70,756 on Tuesday with 3,600 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, which also saw 87 deaths, according to the Health Ministry. While 2,293 people have succumbed to the deadly virus so far, the…

Kanpur: Home guard Akash Gupta (35), a resident of Juhi locality in Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, has urged PM Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to allow him to be the human trial for COVID-19 vaccine. "I saw on TV…

Hyderabad: LB Nagar in Hyderabad has become a corona hotspot with 45 persons testing positive for COVID-19 after attending a birthday party thrown by a shop owner. It now has 15 containment zones. The shop owner contracted the virus from a…

New Delhi: The Ministry of Finance has rubbished the reports of pay cuts for some categories of central government employees to ease pressure on government's expenditure during lockdown. Stating that it had “no basis whatsoever”, the…

Shimla: Just when the Himachal Pradesh government thought it had managed to contain the deadly coronavirus in the state with no new cases over the last few weeks; the state witnessed a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases, after the arrival of…

Bhubaneswar: Partial resumption of commercial establishments and government offices, opening up of liquor shops and air space, starting trains - are all these measures a pointer that there won’t be a third lockdown? Apart from shaking the…

New Delhi: With thousands of people trying to log in at the same time to book train tickets, the website went unresponsive on Monday afternoon. It was only after two hours of the designated time that the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism…

Chennai: With the Central government easing restrictions in several sectors gradually, in a bid to restart economic operations amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of companies have started activities. One of them is Hyundai Motor India,…

New Delhi: With the Ministry of Railways (MoR) deciding to start passenger train services from May 12 in a graded manner, the Union government has laid out a standard operating procedure to be followed by all parties concerned. Passenger…