Coronavirus

New Delhi: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country climbed to 31,332 Wednesday morning, the Union Health Ministry said. Of the total cases, 22,629 are active, 7,695 people have recovered, and 1007 people have succumbed to the disease. Maharashtra remained the worst-hit state...

Tokyo: The postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic isn’t brought under control by next year. This has been said by the organising committee’s president Yoshiro Mori The comments were made during an interview with a Japanese sports daily...

Hyderabad: COVID-19 frontline warriors, including doctors and police personnel are going through acute times of stress. They are being to work continuously stretching to more than 12 hours a day. In such times of crisis many of them are finding music therapy a tool to...

Los Angeles: Singer Joe Jonas has special plans to celebrate his first wedding anniversary with actress Sophie Turner. “I think we would have gone back to Vegas,” Joe Jonas told host James Corden, reported ‘eonline.com’”"So, if you can keep a secret, I would say I...

Mumbai: Madhuri Dixit has revealed how she is spending her days during the ongoing COVID 19 lockdown. The actress is making the most of her quarantine time with her family and pet dog ‘Carmelo’. She is cooking, reading books and practicing kathak dance. Session on...

Ahmedabad: Gujarat police have lodged two separate FIRs against 13 members of the Tablighi Jamaat for allegedly violating lockdown imposed over a month ago to contain the coronavirus spread, DGP Shivanand Jha said Tuesday. In both the cases, Tablighi Jamaat members had entered Bharuch district...

New Delhi: Banks have technically written off a whopping Rs 68,607 crore in outstanding loans of top 50 wilful defaulters. Among the defaulters are firms belonging to fugitive economic offenders Mehul Choksi and Vijay Mallya, till September 30, 2019. This information has been provided by...

Chandigarh: With children infected by COVID-19 feeling anxious as they adjust to isolation wards and PPE-clad doctors, health authorities in Punjab and Chandigarh look to keep them occupied with board games, cartoons and regular counselling. At the Jalandhar civil hospital, two sisters who tested positive...

Chandigarh: Even as he hinted at certain curfew relaxations, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh here Tuesday announced a mandatory 21-day quarantine for all those returning to the state to check spread of Covid-19. Pilgrims returning from Nanded, students and labourers coming from Rajasthan, would be...

Bhubaneswar:  Expecting return of nearly five lakh migrants, mostly labourers, back home after coronavirus-led lockdown is lifted, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Tuesday directed officials to ensure food security to all the returnees with or without ration cards. Patnaik also instructed officials to make rural...