Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar:  Taking note of bus accidents besides arduous long journeys while bringing migrant workers from Surat back home, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday ordered that in the future returnees from the Gujarat's city should be ferried here only by trains. Three accidents have occurred...

Kolkata: Foreign footballers of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, along with their coaches, left Tuesday for their homes. They had been stranded for more than a month due to the nationwide lockdown.  They undertook a 29-hour bus ride from Kolkata to New Delhi from where...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has collected Rs 11 crore in revenue after liquor sales resumed after relaxations of lockdown norms. This information was given by a revenue department official. Huge quantity of liquor sold Liquor shops have sold around four lakh litres of various brands...

New Delhi: The death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 1,583 with 194 fatalities reported since Monday evening. The number of infected cases saw a big jump of 3,875 to go up to 46,711 cases Tuesday. This information was given by the Union...

Bhubaneswar: Five persons tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday bringing the total number of infections so far in Odisha to 174, official data suggested. While two of these patients are from Balasore, the others are from Cuttack, Ganjam and Sundargarh districts.  While the Ganjam and Cuttack...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alerted state police organisations about fake COVID-19 testing kits. Fake COVID-19 testing kits The probe agency said that these kits are circulating in the international market. The information has been provided by Interpol in this regard,...

New Delhi: A shopkeeper was arrested for allegedly duping migrant workers by selling them a fake form. He claimed that it would facilitate their travel to their native states during the lockdown, police said here Tuesday. The accused, identified as Rajeev, 38, is a resident...

New Delhi: World champion shuttler PV Sindhu believes foreign coaches would be difficult to hire in a post COVID-19 world. She said that former India internationals should use the opportunity to step forward and fill in the void. Opportunity for formers “If the global pandemic...

Chhatrapur: Ganjam police have registered two cases against 12 Surat returnees for fleeing from COVID-19 quarantine centres, misbehaving with police and teachers, police SP Brijesh Kumar Rai said Tuesday. Ganjam police have nabbed all the migrant workers who had fled from the two quarantine centres...

New Delhi: Stranded Indians who will be brought back by special flights from abroad will have to download ‘Aarogya Setu’ mobile app. Detailed procedures for this entire evacuation operation will be issued, a Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) official said Tuesday. Punya Salila Srivastava, a...