Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar reported five new COVID-19 cases Monday, informed Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The new cases take the city’s total coronavirus tally to 127. Among the fresh cases, three are home quarantine cases and the rest two are local contacts. Among the quarantine cases, one...

New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister's meeting with chief ministers, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi criticised the four lockdowns enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus, saying that the wrong curve has been flattened. Rahul Gandhi shared a chart to prove his claim. Quoting Albert...

Islamabad: Pakistan's COVID-19 cases reached 144,676 after 5,248 new infections were detected, while 97 more people have succumbed to the coronavirus, pushing the death toll to 2,729, the health ministry said Monday. According to the Ministry of National Health Services, 29,085 tests were done in...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) authorities Monday extended the date of online application form submission for special OJEE exam for admission to B.Tech programme. According to the notification, students can now apply for appearing in the OJEE-2020 examination till June 30. The decision has...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Monday reported 146 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total tally in the state to 4,055. Out of the 146 new cases, 128 were reported from quarantine centres while 18 are local contacts, official sources said. Khordha reported 7 new cases, Nayagarh 4, Jharsuguda...

New Delhi: The COVID-19 tally climbed by over 10,000 and breached the 40,000 mark in just six days in Delhi with an average of over 1,600 new cases on a daily basis, a sharp spike from the 79 days it took to reach the 10,000...

New Delhi: India Monday witnessed a spike of over 11,000 cases second day in a row with 325 deaths taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,32,424, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data revealed. According to the ministry, at least 11,502 fresh...

Beijing: China has begun the mass testing of hundreds of people who had visited a Beijing wholesale market which sparked a fresh bout of coronavirus cases even as the country reported 67 new COVID-19 infections including 42 in the capital. In a bid to stem...

Washington: The overall number of global COVID-19 cases was nearing 7.9 million, while the death toll has surged to over 432,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Monday morning, the total number of cases stood at 7,893,700, while the fatalities stood at 432,922,...

New Delhi: A 56-year-old IRS officer allegedly committed suicide by drinking an ‘acid-like substance’ in his car in Delhi's Dwarka area Sunday, police said. A suicide note recovered from his car mentioned that he feared that he might ‘spread COVID-19’ to his family and does...