coronavirus

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced an economic package worth Rs 20 lakh crore focussing on land, labour, liquidity and law to help migrants, farmers, honest tax payers, MSMEs and cottage industry. "We are in a…

Bhubaneswar: The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on Tuesday issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the aviation sector and airports to be followed once flight services resume.  Among the foremost are:  Passengers above 80…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 pm on Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office informed in a tweet. During his address, the PM is likely to make an announcement on the lockdown due to the outbreak of…

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…

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…

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…

New Delhi: Fifty-four days and counting. A German national, travelling from Hanoi to Istanbul via New Delhi on March 18, got stuck as India suspended flight operations to and from Turkey from that very day due to the coronavirus pandemic.…