Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Centre has released Rs 1,000 crore to the West Bengal government, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A team of the Union government will also visit West Bengal soon to assess the damage caused by ‘Cyclone Amphan’. The rescue-and-relief operations in...

Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Rs 20 lakh crore economic package to tide over the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak a “jumla” (poll rhetoric) and claimed the Centre would be spending just 1 per cent of...

London: There has been a decline in COVID-19 infection rate in the United Kingdom. Due to it the team at Oxford University developing a COVID-19 vaccine believes there efforts may not be successful. The Oxford University team have said that the chances of the trial...

Tokyo: Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his government will compile a fresh stimulus package worth about 100 trillion yen ($930 billion) to provide financial support for companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Abe unveiled the new stimulus at a news conference Monday as he...

New Delhi: Some of the ICC guidelines on resumption of cricket border on the impractical and will need a review when the cricketing world is closer to action, feel former players Aakash Chopra, Irfan Pathan and Monty Panesar. Last week, the International Cricket Council recommended...

New Delhi: As domestic flights resumed after a gap of two months, confusion reigned in many airports across India. This was because some of the states refused to accept incoming flights leading to cancellation of those. The Delhi airport reported cancellation of 82 domestic flights...

Dubai: A 50-year-old Indian teacher has died of coronavirus in the UAE, according to a media report. Anil Kumar, a Hindi teacher at Sunrise School in Abu Dhabi, died Sunday morning, the Gulf News reported. Kumar was detected with COVID-19 May 7. In a statement,...

Angul: More than 1,600 migrant workers arrived in a ‘Shramik Special’ train here Monday morning. Officials stated that 1,650 workers had returned by the train from the Valsad district of Gujarat. They belonged to 24 districts of Odisha. However, the majority of them, 634 to...

Bhubaneswar: The total number of recovered patients in Odisha went up to 649 Monday with 99 more testing negative for COVID-19. This information was given by the Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Odisha. Among those who recovered, 34 are from Balasore district, 15...

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Monday strongly advised students stranded in its hostels to return to their native places as special trains and some intra-state bus services have become operational following relaxations in COVID-19 lockdown norms. In a circular, Dean of Students Professor Sudheer...