Coronavirus

New Delhi: The Indian macroeconomic situation is bleak and all set to get worse if local or national lockdowns continue for some more time, renowned economist Jean Dreze said Sunday. Dreze further said that due to the country-wide lockdown, social unrest in many parts of...

Mumbai: Two employees of the Mumbai civic body who were quarantined at a hospital have run away Sunday from the facility blaming inadequate services and food, an official said. He informed that the duo was put into quarantine at VN Desai Municipal Hospital in suburban Santacruz...

New Delhi: The Delhi government has issued an SOP for disposal of the dead bodies of Covid-19 affected persons to ensure that no further infection is caused. The SOP is an addition to the one issued last month by the city government and on the...

Sambalpur: A doctor couple in this district has been distributing cooked food among attendants of patients admitted to a hospital as they were facing difficulty in getting eatables due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of novel coronavirus. Dr Satya Prakash Dora and...

Bhubaneswar: The city-based ‘Bhubaneswar Poetry Club’ (BPC) has started a podcast series to provide inspiration and companionship to people during the ongoing 21-day lockdown to battle the pandemic coronavirus. Titled, ‘Poets-on-Air’ the programme will comprise poems on various themes that will be recited to cheer...

Sakhigopal:  In view of coronavirus outbreak, residents of Nua Someshwarpur panchayat have started a disinfection drive to sanitise various places in their villages. The villagers of the panchayat have disinfected the roads, temples and houses of their villages without depending upon the district administration so...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry Sunday said that the rapid diagnostic test kits will be available soon, but only in specific areas such as areas reporting clusters or containment zones and in large migration gatherings and evacuees centres. At a press conference here, Joint...

 Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has pledged monthly ration to support 1,00,000 households of daily wage workers belonging to the All India Film Employees Confederation (AIFEC) amid the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative will be supported by Sony Pictures Networks India and ‘Kalyan Jewellers’. “Given the unprecedented nature...

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Pratap Sarangi has urged Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to provide a compensation package for priests and servitors, who are finding it difficult to earn livelihood, amid the nationwide lockdown imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19. Pratap Sarangi in his letter to...

Mumbai: Eight persons died due to Covid-19 in Mumbai while the number of positive cases in the city increased by 103 to touch 433 here Sunday, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. This takes the total number of deaths in Mumbai till now to 30,...