Coronavirus

New Delhi: The GST collection declined for the second consecutive month in August to Rs 86,449 crore, the Finance Ministry said Tuesday. On year-on-year basis, the August GST collection was 12 per cent lower compared to Rs 98,202 crore mopped up in the same month...

Bhubaneswar: Two more legislators from Odisha Tuesday announced that they have been infected by the deadly COVID-19. “Today I have tested Covid-19 positive and in home isolation. Now I am stable. All those have been in close proximity to me in the last few days...

New Delhi: Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit said Tuesday that the family would have considered taking his mortal remains to West Bengal. The last rites would have been done in West Bengal if the COVID-19 restrictions were not in place. Abhijeet said the cremation...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Tuesday said that 3,484 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 3,484 persons, 890 are from Khordha, 314 from Jajpur, 302 from Rayagada, 253 from Ganjam, 162 from Kendrapara, 143 from Cuttack,...

New Delhi: India’s cumulative tests for detection of COVID-19 have crossed 4.3 crore so far. Among these 1.22 crore were conducted in the last two weeks, the Union Health Ministry said. Three states – Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra – account for nearly 34...

Cuttack: As many as 198 new COVID-19 cases were detected under Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) limits in last 24 hours, CMC said Tuesday. While 57 of them were home quarantine cases, 67 were from institutional quarantine centres and the remaining 74 were local contact ones....

Lucknow: Fifty-six more people died Tuesday of coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh, raising the toll to 3,542. Uttar Pradesh also reported 5,571 fresh cases of infection. It pushed the state’s infection count to 2,35,757, said Additional Chief Secretary (Medical and Health) Amit Mohan Prasad. Briefing reporters...

New Delhi: Thousands of masks and gloves, hundreds of sanitiser bottles and face shields, touch-free operation of doors, and COVID-19 tests for an estimated 4,000 people including MPs and staff members. These are several of the arrangements that have been made for the 18-day Parliament...

Dubai: India and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli understands ‘the privilege’ of being able to play cricket in the middle of a raging pandemic. So Virat Kohli wants all IPL participants to respect the tournament’s bio-secure bubble. In fact during RCB’s first virtual...

New Delhi: All 13 members of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) contingent, who tested positive for COVID-19 early last week, have come out negative in the latest tests. This information was given Tuesday by CSK’s CEO KS Viswanathan. India seamer Deepak Chahar and India A batsman...