Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Tuesday sealed Bapuji Nagar market in Bhubaneswar for an indefinite period as the shopkeepers had been repeatedly breaking social distancing norms, a senior official said. According to BMC zonal deputy commissioner Anshuman Rath, BMC had allowed for reopening of...

New Delhi: The postponed FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India was Tuesday rescheduled to next year from February 17 to March 7 after the world body made a “thorough assessment” of the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament was originally scheduled...

New York: New York City, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, is likely to stay closed until June, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said, even as three regions of New York State are set to reopen May 15. New York has been...

New Delhi: Chennai Super Kings have rejected the idea of an IPL with only Indian players in the near future, differing with Rajasthan Royals, the franchise which is keen on the option given the circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The IPL, which is indefinitely...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation Tuesday at 8 pm. The information was shared by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The PMO tweeted, “Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation at 8 p.m. this evening.” This will be the Prime Minister’s...

Beijing: Scientists have identified a close relative of SARS-CoV-2 in bats which offers more evidence that the virus behind the COVID-19 disease evolved naturally, and not in a laboratory. There is ongoing debate among policymakers and the general public about where SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said the US has increased the COVID-19 testing capacity and the number of tests being conducted in the country will cross the 10-million mark this week even as the coronavirus deaths surged past 80,000 in the world’s worst-affected nation....

Konark: As many as 16 fishermen from Puri Nolia Sahi and Chandrabhaga Nolia Sahi took the sea route to return to their native place Odisha in the wee hours Tuesday. The fishermen were stuck for days in Andhra Pradesh without basic amenities owing to the...

Mumbai: The NCP has demanded Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to give special quota in admissions in government medical colleges to the wards of doctors and nurses who die of COVID-19 while treating the disease patients. Maharashtra unit chief of the doctors’ cell of NCP, Narendra...

Puri: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik recently appealed to the inmates in quarantine centres across the state to abide by the norms. DGP Abhay too warned that quarantine norm violators would be strongly dealt with as per law. Yet some of the qurantinees in some...