Coronavirus

New Delhi: In India, around 50 doctors and medical staff have tested positive for coronovirus (COVID-19), raising the eyebrows of the Union Health Ministry, sources said Friday. The Health Ministry is trying to assess the situation and ascertain whether these doctors and medical staff have been...

Mumbai: Actor Hrithik Roshan is all pumped up, and the reason is his father Rakesh Roshan. Friday, Hrithik took to Instagram and shared a video of his father doing intense workout at the age of 71. "Damn ! That's My Dad...N.E.V.E.R. G.I.V.E.S. U.P. . This...

Ghaziabad: Tablighi Jamaat members quarantined at the district hospital here are allegedly misbehaving with the nurses, making lewd remarks and dropping their pants. This has provoked the Uttar Pradesh government to invoke the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against them. The Tablighi members were later...

New Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) can wait till millions of lives, which are in line due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic are saved, veteran India batsman Suresh Raina said Friday. The cricketer has already done his bit in this fight against...

Bhubaneswar: Seven days after his suspension following the identification of third coronavirus case, medical officer of Odisha Legislative Assembly Zonal Dispensary Dr Lalit Behera resumed work Friday. Behera had treated a person with the symptoms of coronavirus infection at the dispensary. The person was later...

Rourkela: With the number of COVID-19 positive cases gradually rising in the country, the state government has prepared an exclusive COVID-19 hospital at Rourkela – the third such hospital in the state. According to a source in the government, the third COVID-19 hospital was Friday...

Bhubaneswar: In view of the ongoing nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has appealed to landlords to be compassionate to poor and waive off or at least defer house rent by three months. Through this gesture it...

New Delhi: The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, which are being considered by some for treating COVID-19, may increase the risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, cardiologists from the United States have warned. The researchers from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and...

Mumbai: Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan has taken to social media to laud the selfless performance of doctors and paramedical staff across the world in the battle against the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Big B Friday morning, shared a cartoon that shows a doctor holding the globe...

Mumbai: One of Hindi film industry's most powerful production houses, Yash Raj Films (YRF), has pledged to support to protect Bollywood daily wage earners and their family during the COVID-19 pandemic. The production house will be giving Rs 1.5 crore, according to an industry source....