Coronavirus

Beijing: The move by the United States to revoke the visas of about 1,000 Chinese students amounts to ‘outright political persecution and racial discrimination’, China's foreign ministry said Thursday. It said that the decision will certainly hamper the future of Chinese students. The statement from...

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 situation in Khurda district, particularly in the state capital is going out of control. So the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to implement the formula that was implemented Ganjam district to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This information was given by...

Kolkata: BJP chief JP Nadda launched Thursday a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal. JP Nadda , accused it of having an ‘anti-Hindu’ mindset and pursuing ‘minority appeasement’ policies. Nadda slammed the ruling party in West Bengal for running a...

New Delhi:  The Health Ministry Thursday issued fresh standard operating procedures to conduct examinations amidst the coronavirus pandemic, which involves following precautionary measures. "Examination centres are frequented by a large number of students, as well as their parents, and staff till the entire duration of...

Koraput: COVID-19 situation in Koraput district is fast going from bad to worse with 124 fresh cases being reported Thursday. Of them, while four were from temporary medical camps, 53 patients contracted the virus from previous positive patients and the remaining 67 contracted the virus...

Thiruvananthapuram: It might be no coincidence, but it happened in a COVID-19 observation centre in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district, where an under observation 41-year-old person committed suicide Thursday. September 10 is observed as the World Suicide Prevention Day across the world. Nishanth was found hanging from...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered a record single-day spike of 3,991 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 1,39,121. As many as 11 more persons died due to COVID-19 infection in the last 24 hours, pushing the state's total fatalities to 591....

New Delhi: India Thursday witnessed a record spike of 95,735 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day increase till date, taking the total tally to 44,65,863, the Union Health Ministry data revealed. There were 1,172 deaths reported in the past 24 hours, which is also the...

Chhatrapur: Even though the rate of COVID infection in Ganjam has slowed down, the threat of coronavirus in the district has not been completely blunted. It is seen that people are found fearlessly moving in hordes. Safety guidelines have been thrown to winds, posing threat...

Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has adopted the guidelines issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for 'testing on demand' for COVID-19. People wanting a COVID-19 test can now walk into private pathology labs across Uttar Pradesh and get themselves...