Coronavirus

Bangalore: Five more Tablighi Jamaat members, including three women, who attended the congregation in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin area in March and returned to Karnataka, tested coronavirus positive, an official said Sunday. “Of the 5 Tablighis, four, including three women are from Raibagh in the state’s...

Shillong: A doctor from Germany who got stuck here in this city due to the nationwide lockdown, has written to Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma informing him about her willingness to serve people in case of coronavirus outbreak in the state, officials said Sunday. Dr...

Gandhinagar: In just a week’s time, the number of positive cases of coronavirus in Gujarat has more than doubled from 61 to 128. Sunday saw the maximum number of positive cases in a day with 20, including a 14-month-old baby from Jamnagar. A 14-month-old boy...

Bhubaneswar: Sixteen new cases of coronavirus positive cases were reported from the city here late Sunday evening according to post on the Twitter account of Health and Family Welfare Department, government of Odisha. All the cases have been reported from the state capital itself. So...

Chennai: Three persons in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district died after consuming paint varnish mixed with water as they were not able to get liquor, police said Sunday. According to police, Shivasankar, Pradeep and Sivaraman were habitual drinkers, and with state-owned liquor shops closed due to...

New Delhi: A In a bid to provide food to the needy and underprivileged amid the nation-wide lockdown, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has opened its kitchens at 10 locations across the country for feeding the underpriviledged and those in need of food. In a tweet,...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry said Sunday the total number of cases in Delhi has left behind the worst-hit Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. With 503 positive coronavirus cases in the national capital, the total tally of coronavirus cases reached 3,577. The updated data was put...

Chennai: Immigration officials at Chennai International Airport Sunday detained 10 Malaysian nationals who had travelled to India under tourist visa and had attended the conference held by Tablighi Jamaat in Delhi last month. They had concealed their participation in the Delhi conference and had come...

New Delhi: Though many experts have expressed optimism towards the onset of summer in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Sunday said high temperature would not finish the virus. The WHO, in a series of tweets, busted several myths about...

Kolkata: A police complaint has been lodged against the daughter of eminent Bengali writer Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay for allegedly making derogatory remarks in a social media post about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection to his call for switching off lights and lighting up candles Sunday....