Coronavirus

Mumbai: Actor Amyra Dastur believes cinema is going to be transformed in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. She said the digital space will open up in a big way. Excited about future of OTT Amyra said the lockdown has led to the closing of...

Kolkata: The West Bengal government has identified over 92,000 cases of influenza-like illness and 870 people with severe acute respiratory illness across the state, findings that serve as “early warning signals” in the fight against COVID-19, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said. Banerjee said the results...

Bhubaneswar: As migrants had started to return to Odisha, the state government had arranged around 500,000 beds to provide COVID-19 health services in rural areas, Panchayati Raj Secretary DK Singh said here Wednesday. About 12,000 temporary medical camps have been readied in 6,798 panchayats with...

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Wednesday issued a cyber security alert and told people to download the Aarogya Setu application only from the Google Play Store and Apple App store. The Aarogya Setu app is the government's mobile application for contact tracing and disseminating medical...

Angul: Sixteen shopkeepers in this town were show-caused for failing to maintain social distancing norms while serving customers. Lockdown norms were relaxed here Wednesday to help people buy essential commodities. Some of the shopkeepers failed to properly implement social distancing rules. So the district administration...

New Delhi: The Delhi government Wednesday ordered release of 4,000 Tablighi members who have completed their required quarantine period in centres in the national capital, sources said. Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain issued an order which also states that Tablighi members who are named and...

Chhatrapur: Following multiple reports of clashes and attempts at escaping quarantine, Ganjam district administration has stepped up efforts to monitor the security at quarantine centres across the district. According to a source, there are 17,244 returnees housed in 268 quarantine centres across the district. The...

Beijing: China Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show the “enormous evidence” he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan and asserted that the virus was not man-made. Pompeo said May 3 that the...

Nayagarh: In order to monitor the state government’s preparedness against Covid-19, 5T Secretary VK Pandian along with Development Commissioner Suresh Mohapatra Wednesday visited the special COVID-19 hospital set up at Chandpur under Ranpur block. Both of them reached the hospital at 9.30 in the morning...

Mumbai: Actress Parineeti Chopra has decided to go on a virtual coffee date to raise funds that will feed 4000 family members of 1000 daily wage earners in India. "There are millions of unemployed daily wage earners who are struggling to make ends meet today...