Coronavirus

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to make a statement Tuesday in Parliament on the continuing standoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the LAC in eastern Ladakh, sources said Monday. Rajnath Singh’s statement would assume significance in the backdrop of demands made...

New Delhi: Former ICICI Bank chairman Chanda Kochhar’s husband Deepak Kochchar has tested positive for COVID-19. Deepak Kochhar was recently arrested in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Kochhar has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here,...

Mumbai: Dampening hopes of a COVID-19 vaccine by year-end, Serum Institute of India’s (SII) chief executive Adar Poonawalla has said that it will not be possible for everybody in the world to be immunised until the end of 2024. Adar Poonawalla said that pharma firms...

Bhubaneswar:  The Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Odisha said in a tweet Monday that 3,382 persons infected by the COVID-19 virus have recovered in the last 24 hours. All of them have been discharged from their respective COVID-19 care treatment facilities across Odisha....

New Delhi: Around 30 MPs, including BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi and Pravesh Verma, and over 50 employees of Parliament have tested positive for COVID-19 so far, sources said Monday. Many of them tested positive after undergoing compulsory coronavirus tests at the parliament premises. The tests were...

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sought Monday the Parliament nod for additional spending of Rs 2.35 lakh crore. The amount include cash outgo of Rs 1.66 lakh crore. Nirmala Sitharaman is seeking approval for extra spending to meet expenses for combating the COVID-19 pandemic....

New Delhi: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi introduced Monday in Lok Sabha a bill that seeks to reduce for one year the salaries of Members of Parliament (MPs) by 30 per cent. The salaries will be reduced ‘to meet the exigencies arising out of COVID-19...

New Delhi: The timely decisions taken by the government, including imposing a nationwide lockdown, helped in preventing approximately 37-38 thousand deaths due to coronavirus. The decisions also helped close to 30 lakh people from getting infected by coronavirus. This information was given Monday by Union...

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Monday said it was the priority of his government and the nation's collective responsibility to ensure that every child can go to school safely as educational institutes across the country will reopen Tuesday after a six-month-long closure due to...

Mumbai: The police will take strict action in the Mira Road quarantine centre rape case. No incident of atrocities against women will be tolerated in Maharashtra, state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said Monday. The home minister made the comments on his official Twitter account. Deshmukh...