Coronavirus

New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Dinesh Karthik has no qualms playing top-flight cricket in empty stadiums. He said majority of the players ‘have grown up’ turning out in domestic matches with few watching them. Playing in empty stadiums Opinions are divided on whether...

New Delhi: The entrepreneur in Abhinav Bindra reckons the economies of sport will have taken a beating by the time the novel coronavirus ceases to spread its ugly tentacles, leaving the athletes in an uncertain world full of challenges. The champion athlete in him sees...

Kolkata: Over 1,000 elderly people of Kolkata and five districts of south Bengal have received pension at their doorstep during the last fortnight of the lockdown, thanks to the efforts of the India Post. Payments to the tune of more than Rs 90 lakh have...

New York: As the United States is buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has discussed the availability of medicines with India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, the State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said Thursday. She said that they "discussed bilateral and...

Bhubaneswar: Even as the number of people infected by novel coronavirus in the state climbed to 89 Thursday, the government has decided to scale up the capacity to detect COVID-19 to 3,000 per day by the end of April. The decision was taken at the...

Mumbai: The number of coronavirus positive patients in Dharavi area of this city crossed the 200-mark Thursday. Twenty five new cases were detected in the last 24 hours. The figure however, is lower than the 31 reported between Tuesday and Wednesday, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...

In what could be termed as a respite for many, researchers have found that the novel coronavirus is unlikely to spread through sperms. The researchers also said that they found no evidence of the virus in the samples of semen of men infected with mild-to-moderate...

New Delhi: The entire Muslim community cannot be held responsible for one group’s ‘crime’, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Thursday. He was reacting to instances of Muslims being blamed for the spurt in COVID-19 cases after Tablighi Jamaat congregation. Naqvi asserted that most...

New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-BJP MP Gautam Gambhir performed the last rites of his domestic help - a nanny who Gambhir called as ‘family’, prompting Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan to thank him for his ‘compassion’. The deceased, identified as Saraswati Patra was working with the Gambhir’s for a...

Bhubaneswar: The state government, Thursday, rescheduled the working hours of all banks operating in the state. All banks will now operate in the morning hours. The decision was taken to ensure social distancing in the banks. Moreover, Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management department has rescheduled...