Coronavirus

Nagapattinam (TN): In a touching gesture, a senior police officer in Nagapattinam district personally reached out to a poor family with three polio-affected kids and provided them medicine and essentials after coming to know of their plight on social media. Deputy Superintendent of Police Safiyullah...

Jodhpur: A group of migrant Pakistani Hindu doctors with MBBS degree from there but not able to take a mandatory MCI examination to practise here for want of Indian citizenship, has urged the government to let them join India’s anti-corona fight. There are over 300...

Mumbai: Bollywood veterans Hema Malini and Javed Akhtar have criticised the people who attacked doctors and paramedics in Moradabad, saying it is a matter of “great shame”. A mob trying to stop a medical team April 15  from taking a coronavirus-infected man into isolation hurled...

Cuttack: The coronavirus-induced lockdown has brought out the Good Samaritan in many. Barsha Mohanty - a sub-inspector attached to Cuttack Mahila police station is among them. Her humanitarian nature came to fore when a video featuring her feeding a mentally challenged old woman at Dargah...

New Delhi: CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury Saturday hit out public broadcaster Doordarshan saying it is not the “private property” of the ruling BJP that “it does their public relation” exercise. For the last few days, state-owned Doordarshan (DD) has been broadcasting reports showing people...

Bhadarwah (J&K): Pune-based filmmaker Nachiket Guttikar was packing up things to leave for his home state Maharashtra when a nationwide lockdown was announced to combat the coronavirus threat. Guttikar, along with his team members Shamin Kulkarni and Ninad Datar, had arrived in this picturesque town...

According to Google, scammers are sending 18 million hoax emails about coronavirus to Gmail users every day. Google says criminals are taking advantage of the global pandemic by launching phishing attacks, trying to trick users into sharing their personal data. Over the past week, almost...

Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan has compared human beings in lockdown to caged animals, in a new blog post. He added that once the lockdown phase is over, we might feel hesitant to step out of our homes. "The process of working from home' bears fruit...

New Delhi: Amid the nationwide lockdown to combat Covid-19, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi has formed an 11-member consultative group, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and former party chief Rahul Gandhi, to formulate the party views on various issues....

Chandrapur (Maharshtra): This is one migrant computer operator who earned laurels of the people and police alike after he walked down nearly 750 km from Panvel in Raigad to a warm welcome in his native village Ghugus in Chandrapur, a distance of 900 km covered...