Coronavirus

Chhatrapur: Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange Tuesday said that the number of active COVID-19 cases in the district have been decreasing. Kulange took to Twitter to inform that about 4 lakh migrants returned to Ganjam amid COVID-19 induced lockdown. With many of them testing positive...

New Delhi: A survey among children in four southern states has found startling facts. It has revealed about 94 per cent of the respondents did not have access to smartphones or the internet for online education. The study was conducted by child rights body CRY...

Bhubaneswar: Even though the number of COVID-19 cases is on the rise in Odisha, so is the rate of recoveries. Odisha registered Monday a total of 1,503 recoveries. It took the total recovery tally in the state to 43,779. Earlier in the day, Odisha had...

Chennai: Popular playback singer SP Balasubrahmanyam (SPB to his friends), battling COVID-19, remained in critical condition. SPB is currently on life support, the hospital treating him here said Monday. Wishes continued to pour in for the recovery of the playback singer. The veteran singer-actor’s son...

Kolkata: West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Samaresh Das, who had tested positive for COVID-19 recently, died at a hospital here Monday. This information was given by Trinamool Congress sources. Samaresh Das was 76. Das was a three-time MLA from Egra assembly constituency in East...

Kolkata: Bengali filmmaker Raj Chakraborty tested positive for coronavirus on Monday and put in home quarantine. "I have tested corona positive. In home quarantine right now," he tweeted. Chakraborty said that his father had been hospitalised recently but he had tested negative both times. "Rest...

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar city reported 198 fresh COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours taking the tally to 5487, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said Monday. Among the fresh cases detected, 104 were reported from quarantine centres while 94 contracted the virus locally. Meanwhile, 132 patients were discharged...

Mumbai: State Bank of India’s (SBI) research report ‘Ecowrap’ has said India’s GDP will contract by 16.5 per cent during the first quarter of the current fiscal. Earlier in May, ‘Ecowrap’ had estimated Q1 FY21 GDP contraction at over 20 per cent. Now pegs it...

Malkangiri: The COVID-19 tally in Malkangiri district tally crossed 1,300-mark with 98 fresh cases Monday. The total number of COVID-19 cases now stands at 1,347 in the district. Among the fresh cases, 68 are symptomatic cases and the rest asymptomatic ones. They include 42 such...

New Delhi: Six Indian men’s hockey team players, including skipper Manpreet Singh, have recovered from COVID-19. The six hockey players will be discharged from a Bangalore hospital Monday evening. According a source close to the team, Manpreet, defenders Surender Kumar, Jaskaran Singh, Varun Kumar have...