Coronavirus

Mumbai: Actors Vicky Kaushal and Rajkummar Raos housing complex here has been partially sealed after an 11-year-old tested positive for COVID-19. The complex in Mumbai's Andheri area is home to Hindi film actors including Vicky, Rajkummar and Patralekhaa, and Chitrangda Singh. The child is the...

New Delhi: While facial masks and hand sanitisers are mandatory as a preventive measure against the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, eye care specialists in India have stressed that as the virus can transmit through the eyes too, people should avoid wearing contact lenses to curb...

Kesinga: Amid growing concerns over shortage of protective gear to battle COVID-19, members of Mission Shakti in Kesinga block of Kalahandi district took to distributing masks to the needy people here. According to locals, there are many poor people in the block who are suffering...

Jajpur: With the identification of five COVID-19 patients in Jajpur district Monday, the district administration late night took precautionary measures and sealed five villages under three blocks of the district. Police have sealed Birajapur village in Dasarathpur block, Basudvpur, Markendapur and Beherapatana villages in Jajpur...

New Delhi: Reacting to reports that the Centre has decided to use additional rice in stock to make ethanol, which could be used for making sanitisers, Rahul Gandhi said Tuesday that the poor were dying of hunger and the government wanted to make sanitisers for...

Berhampur: In view of relaxations allowed by the Union and State governments to reopen the economy, Ganjam collector Vijaya Amruta Kulange has said that the banks in the district will remain open from 7am to 2pm starting Tuesday. The decision was taken by the district...

New York: Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that gender-based violence has dramatically increased during novel COVID-19 pandemic. According to the findings, published in the journal Bioethics, early results from China suggest that domestic violence has increased. For example, a police station in China's...

Dehradun: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s father Anand Singh Bisht was cremated Tuesday on the banks of the Ganga at Phoolchatti in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat laid a wreath on the body before it was consigned to flames...

Bahraich (UP): While the countrywide lockdown has rendered a large number of people jobless, a 45-year-old physically challenged man has found a noble way of earning a livelihood and also helping people in dealing with coronavirus. Sajid, an e-rickshaw driver, was struggling to make ends...

Bangkok: The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that rushing to ease coronavirus restrictions will likely lead to a resurgence of the illness, a warning that comes as governments start rolling out plans to get their economies up and running again. “This is not the...