Coronavirus

Rourkela: Following the detection of several COVID-19 cases, the Sundargarh district administration Friday declared a two-day shutdown in the Rajgangpur municipality area. The shutdown will be in force from August 8 to August 9. During the two-day shutdown period, the district administration will undertake containment...

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court quashed Friday two government resolutions issued by the Maharashtra government. The Maharashtra government had wanted to bar film and TV artistes and crew members above 65 years of age, from going to work to studios. The Maharashtra government’s resolution also...

New Delhi: India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Thursday asserted that the spread of coronavirus has been contained in the country, citing how half the total cases are from three states only and another 30 per cent from seven others. His remarks come hours before India...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered the highest single-day spike for coronavirus with 1,833 persons testing positive for the disease. Among the new infections 1,118 persons were undergoing quarantine while the remaining 715 were local contacts. The new coronavirus positive patients took the total number of cases in...

Chennai: Coming down heavily on yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved Ltd for ‘chasing profits by exploiting people's fear and panic’ to sell its immunity booster tablet Coronil, the Madras High Court Thursday slapped a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on it. The court also refused...

New Delhi: India Friday witnessed its highest-ever single-day spike as 62,538 new Coronavirus cases were detected in 24 hours, pushing its tally to over 20 lakh cases. It is still the third-worst hit behind Brazil, which has more than 29 lakh cases and the US...

Kaptipada: Rural housing scheme for the poor has gone haywire in Mayurbhanj district with the rich and influential people grabbing all the benefits while actual beneficiaries stay deprived of it, a report said. The harrowing tale of a 67-year old widow of Aswakoti village under...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Thursday said that 1,150 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 1,150 persons, 290 are from Ganjam, 197 from Khurdha, 121 from Rayagada, 76 from Sundargarh, 47 from Jajpur, 45 from Koraput,...

Cuttack:  Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Thursday said that 64 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While 24 of them were reported from containment zones, 11 were reported from institutional quarantine centres. Another 19 were home quarantine case...

Jaipur: A 23-year-old student, K Goutam Kumar, has developed an UV-E SAFE kit that helps in sanitising money, documents, files and other belongings within a minute. Kumar is pursuing entrepreneurship skills training from Bharatiya Skill Development University (BSDU). Taking about his invention, Kumar said: "In...