coronavirus

The Rajya Sabha polls have been deferred further by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Originally scheduled to be held on March 26, the ECI had extended the period of completion of election through a notification issued on March 24…

Bhubaneswar: After converting train coaches into quarantine facilities, the East Coast Railways (ECoR) has now decided to use its workshops, sheds and depots for producing face masks and sanitisers. As per reports, sanitisers are being…

New Delhi: Union Health Ministry Joint Secretary, Lav Agarwal, on Friday announced that 647 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the last 48 hours have links to the Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi. Twelve deaths took place in the last 24 hours, he…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday interacted with over 40 eminent Indian sportspersons and urged them to play a pro-active role in tackling the threat posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. Among those who took part in the…

New Delhi: Around 8,000 people have been tested for novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours across India, the highest in a single day. This was disclosed by the Union Health Ministry during its daily briefing on the COVID-19 situation in the…

In an innovative move, Kolkata police personnel took to the streets and sang ‘We shall overcome’ to boost the morale of citizens who have been confined to their homes amidst the nationwide lockdown enforced from March 24 midnight to check…

Raipur: Even as the world is grappling against the COVID-19 pandemic, a couple in Raipur, Chattisgarh has named their newborn twins — a girl and a boy — as ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’. The twins were born in the wee hours of March 27 amid the…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged people to switch off lights at their homes for nine minutes at 9 pm on Sunday and light a candle or diya or flash a torch or their mobile flashlight at their doors or on the balcony in an…

Thousands of devotees assembled in temples in various parts of West Bengal on the occasion of Ram Navami on Thursday, defying the lockdown. Long queues of devotees were seen outside temples across the state, reported The New Indian…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share a video message on Friday morning. "At 9am tomorrow morning, I'll share a small video message with my fellow Indians," PM Modi tweeted in Hindi and English on Thursday afternoon. The PM…