coronavirus

A Group of Ministers (GoM) on Tuesday recommended extension of closure of all educational institutions and restricting all religious activities with public participation till May 15, irrespective of whether the Centre extends the 21-day…

Bhubaneswar: At an age when people are fighting over petty religious issues, some Muslim youths have set an example by carrying the bier of their Hindu neighbour to the cremation ground amidst the lockdown in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that it will not be possible to end the lockdown on April 14 considering the rise in cases. He said he would consult Chief Ministers of all states, but it looked unlikely that the…

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” These immortal lines of British writer George Eliot might no longer capture the mood of contemporary times, when people, battling the coronavirus pandemic, might not even…

New Delhi: The question uppermost in the mind of every Indian today is: Will the lockdown be extended?  Although the government is non-commital, the news agency PTI, quoting government sources said on Tuesday that the Central government is…

Hyderabad: Telangana State Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) on Monday reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to extend the nation-wide lockdown beyond April 15. “We can recover from the hit that the economy is…

New Delhi: In view of the situation vis-à-vis the COVID-19 outbreak, the Union Cabinet on Monday approved an ordinance reducing allowances and pension of members of Parliament by 30 per cent for a year from April 1. It was done by amending…

The government on Monday released interesting figures on coronavirus cases in India, with a break-up of the numbers as per different age groups. According to an official of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, almost half -- 47% to…

Fearing that she had contracted the novel coronavirus, a 60-year-old woman from Phagwara in Punjab committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance,  police said. Santosh Kaur, a resident of Khurampur village, complained of a throat…