Coronavirus

Digapahandi: Putting duty before his health, Digapahandi tehsildar Adwaita Swain is one of the frontline warriors who is fighting the COVID-19 virus outbreak in the state. Fifty-Nine-Year old Swain, a cancer victim, takes pride in serving the denizens of Digapahandi NAC in Ganjam district despite...

Mumbai: Filmmaker Karan Johar has taken to social media in order to flaunt his greys with panache. On Instagram Stories, Johar posted an extreme close-up shot of himself, which displays his grey hair. He captioned the image, saying: "Grey matters". Lately, all through the ongoing...

New Delhi: Doctors in India are just not fighting the dreaded pandemic coronavirus. They are also tackling a situation where they cannot say anything anti-government; anti-authority. The moment they do so, they face backlash and censorship. This is both at the state and national level....

New Delhi: Migrant labourers who leave their villages in search of work during non-agricultural months are stranded in cities across India, leaving their families fearful that their harvest-ready crops will wither and die on the stalks and push them deeper into debt. With three weeks...

Beijing/Wuhan: With the number of coronavirus cases sharply falling, China Wednesday shutdown one of its largest makeshift field hospitals built in just 10 days to treat the surging COVID-19 infections in Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic. Thousands of medical workers deployed in the capital...

Mumbai: Singer Papon is organising a special virtual three-day concert for the festival 'Bihu', and says it is an attempt to spread positivity and bring people together. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and lockdown period, Papon has come up with a plan to celebrate the...

Mumbai: Ranveer Singh is a rare superstar who loves sharing his own memes on a regular basis, and he has done it again! In a new meme that he shares, the actor has turned into Joe Exotic from the popular Netflix series Tiger King: Murder,...

Puri: The annual car festival of Lord Jagannath and his siblings scheduled for June 23 in Puri will most likely be observed without the presence of devotees for the first time in history owing to coronavirus outbreak. According to Srimandir senior servitor Binayak Das Mohapatra, the...

New Delhi: Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan Wednesday demanded a thorough probe into Tuesday’s gathering of migrants at Mumbai’s Bandra railway station and said it was an attempt to disrupt communal harmony and negate the state’s efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Addressing a...

Aska: Despite assurances by both state and union governments, public delivery system (PDS) beneficiaries of Aska block have alleged that the fair price shop owners are refusing them supplies citing lack of availability. Both the state and union government have announced to distribute three-months rations...