Coronavirus

Mumbai: A Mumbai resident stuck in Delhi due to the national lockdown has expressed her gratitude for Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for coming to her aid in the hour of crisis and making arrangements for her accommodation in the Maharashtra Sadan there. The woman,...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all Union Ministers along with over 750 Members of Parliament (MPs) will take a 30 per cent salary cut for one year and the amount will be used to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, Prakash Javadekar announced...

Berhampur: A Reverse Transcriptase-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) machine to test suspect coronavirus patients was installed at MKCG Medical College and Hospital (MKCGMCH) here in Ganjam district Monday. MKCGMCH, superintendent, Dr Santosh Kumar Mishra said two engineers from Kolkata installed the machine in the Microbiology Department...

Bhadrak: Bhadrak Town Police arrested Monday 29 shop owners in the district for violating social distancing norms that have been implemented to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the district administrations of Khurda, Balasore and Bhadrak had warned Sunday the shopkeepers that...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha governor Ganeshi Lal donated Rs 13.20 lakh to Prime Minsiter Care Fund (PM-CARES Fund) and Rs 21 lakh to Odisha Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to help fight the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ganeshi Lal urged the people to help wherever possible by contributing to...

Mumbai: Actress Sara Ali Khan has tips for her fans to beat lockdown boredom -- especially the Monday blues during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown. Taking to Instagram, Sara posted a throwback dance rehearsal video. What's more, the budding actress seemed to be in a poetic...

Mumbai: Trolls have been having a field day ever since Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan started sharing posts related to COVID-19. The iconic actor is yet again being trolled on social media after he posted a fake #9pm9minutes satellite image of India. Amitabh Monday took to...

New Delhi: Amid reports of a US zoo tiger found coronavirus positive, India’s apex tiger conservation body, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has swung into action and has asked all tiger range states to keep an eye over big cats and immediately report to...

New Delhi: Liquor maker Bacardi Monday said it would produce 70,000 liters of hand sanitisers, which will be distributed primarily to district government hospitals, to help mitigate the spread of coronavirus pandemic. The company has started production of hand sanitizers at its co-packing facility in...

Mumbai: Actress Bhumi Pednekar is giving social distancing tips to hundreds of children in Madhya Pradesh via video calls. She said: "The terms social distancing and self-isolation needs to be hammered into the minds of every individual of this vast country because such things are...