Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The Twin City Commissionerate Police here Thursday said that permission for Ganesh Puja in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack has not been given this year. “In view of COVID-19 pandemic, there’re restrictions on large religious congregations. So, no permission has been given to puja mandaps to...

Sambalpur: A day after imposing Section 144 at ten places in Sambalpur district to curb the spread of coronavirus, the district administration imposed curfew at seven more places Thursday. The total number of places under Section 144 has now gone up to 17. The places...

New Delhi: The government Thursday stated that 70.77 per cent people infected of deadly coronavirus have recovered and left hospital and quarantine centres. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated that 66,999 new COVID-19 cases have been detected in the last 24 hours taking...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered a record single-day spike of 1,981 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 52,653. Nine more patients succumbed to the infection, raising the death toll in the state to 314. Out of the 1,981 new cases, 1,225...

New Delhi: With a record single-day increase of 66,999 cases, India's COVID-19 tally mounted to 23,96,637 Thursday, while the number of patients who have recovered from the disease surged to 16,95,982, pushing the recovery rate to 70.77 per cent in the country, according to the Union...

New Delhi: The government has distributed more than 3.04 crore N95 masks and over 1.28 crore personal protection equipment (PPE) kits among the states, Union territories and central institutions for free since March 11, the health ministry said Thursday. Also, more than 10.83 crore hydroxychloroquine...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 20.5 million, while the deaths have increased to over 747,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 20,550,481 and the fatalities rose to 747,845, the...

New Delhi: Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the two back-up countries being zeroed in on by the ICC. This is if India is unable to host next year’s T20 World Cup. There is however, one year still to go for the...

Kolkata: The COVID-19 death toll in West Bengal rose to 2,203 Wednesday after 54 people succumbed to the disease, the state’s health department said. West Bengal’s coronavirus count has gone up to 1,04,326 after 2,936 new cases of infection were reported in the last 24...

Srinagar: Newly-appointed Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha promised Wednesday better security arrangements for grassroots level elected leaders but asked them to take precautionary measures as well. “Many people have spoken about security issues. We have lost several colleagues recently...My sympathies and the administration...