Coronavirus

Kolkata: Actors in West Bengal’s television industry will not shoot intimate scenes for their shows in the immediate future. A decision to this effect was taken as production work restarted in West Bengal. Shooting had stopped in the state due since the lockdown began March 25....

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged the Centre to make arrangements to operate direct flights to Bhubaneswar. He has said that these flights from the gulf countries, United Kingdom and Sri Lanka will be helpful. It will enable stranded Odias in these nations return home....

Bhubaneswar: The Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) received a special Air Asia flight carrying Odia returnees from Mumbai at 8:25 am, Wednesday. Two more flights will reach at the airport late Wednesday. Sources said that a team of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) along with officials from...

Washington: The US will ship next week the first batch of 100 ventilators it has donated to India to treat the coronavirus patients, President Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a conference call, the White House said. Trump spoke with Modi Tuesday...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha reported 143 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, taking the total tally in the state to 2,388. Out of the 143 new cases, 132 have been reported in quarantine centres while 11 are local contacts, informed the Health and Family Welfare Department. The new cases...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday appealed to the central government to provide one-time assistance of Rs 10,000 each to migrant labourers and others in the unorganised sector to sustain amid coronavirus crisis. "I appeal to the Centre to transfer Rs 10,000 each...

Washington: Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus. It repeatedly thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus ‘immediately’, and said its work and commitment to transparency were...

Houston:  The clinical administration of the blood component plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to those severely affected by the disease could be a safe option without adverse side effects, according to a study which may lead to better treatment protocols against novel coronavirus infection. March...

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh): Lallan, a painter in the NCR city Ghaziabad, waited near a railway station for three days for his turn to get on to a Shramik special. On the fourth day, he went to the bank, withdrew all his savings of Rs 1.9...

New Delhi: India registered a record jump of 8,909 novel coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 2,07,615 Wednesday, while the toll rose to 5,815 with 217 more deaths, the Health Ministry said. The number of active cases of the coronavirus...