Coronavirus

Mumbai: Amid lockdown due to the outbreak of coronavirus globally, Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit-Nene treated her fans with a sneak-peek of her "home garden". Madhuri took to her Instagram Stories, where she shared a photograph of some plants, in what seems to be like her...

Bhubaneswar:  As a large number of people are working from home during the lockdown period which will continue till May 3, the Odisha government Friday issued a health advisory on the dos and don'ts for them. Asking people to maintain an active lifestyle while staying...

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to engage kids creatively during lockdown, several state government departments came together in collaboration with UNICEF to launch ‘Mo Prativa’ - an initiative where children aged 5-18 years are encouraged to send their creatives daily to win prizes. The creatives are...

Rooted in the deep history and tradition, people in densely populated countries like India and China are turning to alternative medicines even as there are no approved drugs for the new coronavirus. In India, where a lockdown of its 1.3 billion residents is underway, the...

Guna (Madhya Pradesh): It could not get any more trendy and simple. Twelve Muslim couples entered the wedlock despite the lockdown Friday -- through video conference. Reformist Muslims have been organising mass marriages at Guna every April for some years now. Just as the coronavirus...

Mumbai: In a bid to strictly enforce lockdown, the Maharashtra Police have arrested 10,276 people and seized 32,424 vehicles for violating prohibitory orders, an official said here Friday. The state police have collected Rs 1.83 crore in fines/penalties by registering 49,756 offences, said an official...

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) Friday that Africa could become the next epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic as there was a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in the past week. There have been almost 1,000 deaths and more than 18,000 infections...

Bhubaneswar: The state government Friday evening told reporters that there has not been any rise in new COVID in the state. According to state health department, out of the total 7,577 samples tested, total positive cases stood at 60 by Friday evening while the total numbers...

Amaravati: Apart from officially flagging off the rapid testing kits imported from South Korea on Friday, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy also underwent the COVID-19 test. When the results came about ten minutes later, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when Jagan...

Shergarh: Ganjam collector Vijay Amruta Kulange Friday inaugurated Berhampur Blood Bank’s mobile blood collection van which had been lying unused since procurement. Kulange also donated blood in it. More than 20 units of blood were collected in the van on the first day itself, it...