Coronavirus

Bhubaneswar: The Directorate of Public Health has written a letter to Khordha District Education Officer (DEO) asking him to ensure opening of five schools that will operate as COVID-19 sample collection centres in Bhubaneswar. According to a source, the samples will be collected between April...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the next 3-4 weeks are critical to determine impact of steps taken till now to curb the coronavirus spread and urged state governments to ensure strict adherence to the lockdown. Interacting with chief ministers via video conference,...

New Delhi: An orthopaedic surgeon moved the Supreme Court Saturday, seeking a modification of the courts April 8 order directing authorities to ensure COVID-19 tests in approved government and private laboratories be conducted free of cost. Kaushal Kant Mishra has filed an intervention application in...

Balasore: Police recovered the mutilated body of a young man from a road in Soipur area under Sadar police limits of Balasore district Saturday morning. The cops identified the deceased as Chakradhar Barik (32), a resident of Sekhpatna village. Subsequently, they sent the body to...

New Delhi: The nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 is likely to be extended beyond April 14 with the government spokesperson Saturday saying the Centre is considering a request made by most state chief ministers in this regard during an interaction with Prime...

 Mumbai: After offering his Juhu hotel for frontline COVID-19 warriors, actor Sonu Sood has now started a food distribution drive to help the needy during the ongoing lockdown. Under an initiative called Shakti Annadanam launched in the name of his late father Shakti Sagar Sood,...

Tehran: Iran Saturday reported 125 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, raising the overall toll in the Middle East’s worst-hit country to 4,357. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour told a news conference that 1,837 new infections had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, taking...

Mumbai:  Actor Kartik Aaryan made a rather dapper style statement while urging people to continue following lockdown guidelines. The actor took to Instagram to share an image of himself where he is all suited up in black. In the picture, he poses for the camera...

Mumbai: Superstar Salman Khan, who earlier financially supported 25,000 daily wage workers of the film industry amid the COVID-19 lockdown, has now provided ration facility to them. Politician Baba Siddique Friday took to Twitter to thank the actor for his contribution. "Thank you @beingsalmankhan @tweetbeinghuman...

Nashik: A 31-year-old man, who assumed that he contracted coronavirus, allegedly committed suicide in Maharashtra’s Nashik city, police said Saturday. Pratik Raju Kumavat, a resident of Chehedi area of Nashik Road, allegedly hanged himself from the ceiling of his home Saturday and left a suicide...