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New Delhi: Aarogya Setu app has helped authorities detect more than 650 hotspots and over 300 "emerging hotspots", which could have been missed otherwise, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Sunday. The mobile tracking app which uses GPS…

Mumbai: The total number of cases in India jumped to 62,939 after more than 3,000 fresh new COVID-19 cases were detected in the past 24 hours. 19,357 have recovered so far and 2,109 have died. Over 15 lakh tests have been conducted in…

Bhubaneswar: Home Ministry on Saturday granted permission for opening of schools to facilitate evaluation of answer sheets of CBSE Board examination. Union Minister for HRD Ramesh Pokhriyal said 3,000 CBSE  affiliated schools have been…

Never has there been so much spotlight on the ubiquitous migrant labourers in our cities as now, in COVID-19 lockdown times. Toiling away as construction and industry workers, vendors, safai karamcharis, household helps, electricians,…

Kolkata: In a recovery of miraculous proportions, Nitaidas Mukherjee beat Covid-19 and returned to his south Kolkata residence after being on a ventilator for 38 days. According to doctors, it’s a very rare case because a Covid-19 patient…

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that testing capacity for novel coronavirus has been increased to around 95,000 tests per day in India. The minister informed that till Friday, 15,25,631 tests had been…

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has partnered with Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) to develop a fully indigenous COVID-19 vaccine for COVID-19. They will use the virus strain isolated at ICMR's National…

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government moved the Supreme Court on Saturday, challenging the Madras High Court’s order to close in liquor stores in the state which had opened earlier this week following some relaxations by the Central government…

Thiruvananthapuram: Two Indians, who were among the 363 brought back from Abu Dhabi and Dubai via special Air India flights that landed in Kerala on Thursday, have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, said Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan…

Shah Rukh Khan-owned Caribbean Premier League side Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR), on Friday pledged to distribute 1,000 food packets to the needy who are struggling in Trinidad and Tobago due to the coronavirus-forced lockdown. The actor…