Coronavirus

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Sunday the coronavirus situation in the country is improving. He said many hotspot districts (HSD) are moving towards being non-hotspot districts (NHSD).  The minister also visited the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Trauma Centre to...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh Sunday said that IPS official Amitabh Gupta, who gave a letter of approval to Yes Bank scam accused Wadhawan brothers and others for travel to a hill station amid lockdown earlier this month, said he did not write the...

Dhaka: India Sunday gifted one lakh anti-malarial tablets of hydroxychloroquine and 50,000 surgical gloves to Bangladesh to help it combat the coronavirus pandemic which has infected nearly 5,000 people and killed over 100 in the country. India’s High Commissioner Riva Ganguly Das, on the occasion...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray Sunday said that the decision on relaxation of restrictions in the state will be taken after a review of the situation once the national lockdown ends May 3. He said this during his televised address over the coronavirus situation...

New Delhi: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes (CBIC) has cleared over Rs 10,700 crore worth refunds in GST and customs duty between April 8-23. In the ‘Special Refund and Drawback Disposal Drive’, the CBIC officers have cleared over 1.07 lakh Goods and Services Tax...

New Delhi: The total number of Covid-19 cases in the country mounted to 26,917 Sunday evening, the Union Health Ministry stated. Of the total cases, 20,177 are active cases, 5,913 people have recovered, and 826 people have succumbed to the disease. Maharashtra remained the worst...

New Delhi: Pakistan spin great Saqlain Mushtaq fails to understand how a proven performer like Ravichandran Ashwin has been kept out of India’s limited-overs set-up, saying a successful Test bowler is bound to succeed in the shorter formats. Ashwin, a regular in the IPL, has...

New Delhi: In view of the coronavirus pandemic and persistent concerns, the share of Indian consumers preferring online shopping over physical shops may rise to 64 per cent in the next 6-9 months, according to a survey by Capgemini Research Institute. The report said that...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has again emphasised the scaling up of testing to detect Covid-19, calling it a "bottleneck" and appealed to the Prime Minister to look into the issue. The Congress leader demanded that that 1 lakh tests should be done from...

New Delhi: Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan, who was due to superannuate this month-end, was Sunday given a three-month extension in service as the Centre effected a major top-level bureaucratic reshuffle. The move assumes significance as the Health Ministry is at the forefront of India's...