Coronavirus

New Delhi: Over 80,000 passengers have booked tickets worth over Rs 16 crore on the special trains so far, the Indian Railways said Tuesday, hours before the first such train is scheduled to depart from the New Delhi station for Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh. The...

Kolkata: The Bengal Imams’ Association has urged mosque and madrasa committees in the state to let out their premises for setting up of COVID-19 quarantine centres. In a letter, its chairman Md Yahia urged over 2,600 mosque and madrasa committees to handover their premises to...

Bhanjanagar: A total of 16,576 people, mostly migrant labourers, from Surat returned to Ganjam. Sources said, a majority of Surat returnees reached the district in 298 buses between April 29 and May 8. Similarly, some returned in cars, riding bikes and bicycles. As many as...

New Delhi: The Indian Railways, which had Monday “advised” the passengers availing the special trains that started operating Tuesday to install the government’s Aarogya Setu mobile application, has now made it “mandatory” to do so. While the guidelines issued by the railways for the 15...

Beijing: China reported one new coronavirus case and 15 asymptomatic infections, a day after a fresh COVID-19 cluster emerged in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) Tuesday said one imported case was recorded in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday...

Washington: Describing the coronavirus as exceptionally infective and highly lethal, an eminent Indian-American cardiologist has urged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee not to take anything for granted and take all necessary steps to prevent large-scale illness and fatalities in the state. Tennessee-based Dr Indranill...

Mumbai: A 38-year-old HIV-positive transgender committed suicide by hanging self near a school Monday in Malvani area of suburban Malad, apparently due to the loss of livelihood and unavailability of medicine amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown, police said. The transgender was struggling to make both ends...

Harish Barthwal They are again to the fore in this scary point of time. In the ongoing war against Covid-19 that has so far defied any sure shot medicine, the frontline health care functionaries i.e. nurses have demonstrated remarkable resilience and ‘never say die’ spirit....

Singapore: A 53-year-old Indian national in Singapore, who was tested positive for coronavirus, died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the health ministry said Monday. The man died May 9. His COVID-19 test report came May 10 after his death, the ministry said. The cause of...

New Delhi: The COVID-19 tally in India surged past 70 thousand cases, with 3,604 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said Monday. According to the morning update provided by the ministry, the total number of cases now stand at...