Coronavirus

Seoul: Around 500 people remain under coronavirus quarantine across North Korea, state media reported Friday, a sharp drop from some 2,280 a week earlier as Pyongyang keeps lifting the quarantine for persons with no symptoms during the isolation period. North Korea has insisted it has no...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Friday discharged the person who was the first COVID-19 positive case in the state after his latest report was negative. According to the Health and Family Welfare Department, the patient, a resident of this city was discharged after he recovered completely....

Mumbai: Actress Flora Saini, who had earlier featured in the hit Hindi film Stree and the web series Gandii Baat is excited because her short film Motherland will soon be available online. "I'm happy that the movie is soon releasing on YouTube and everyone can...

Lahunipada: Amid the scare of coronavirus spread across the globe, health officials have checked health of 15 people who were lodged in a mosque in Lahunipada block of Sundargarh district, after they returned from the religious congregation at Nizamuddin in New Delhi. All the three...

Los Angeles: Hollywood star Tom Cruise announced Friday that the release of his much-awaited film Top Gun: Maverick has been postponed to December due to coronavirus pandemic. The anticipated ‘Paramount Pictures’ movie, which was scheduled to debut June 24, will now release December 23, 2020....

Paris: Global coronavirus cases surpassed one million Friday with more than 53,000 deaths as the pandemic further exploded in the United States (US) and the death toll climbed in Spain and Italy. Since the virus was first recorded in China late last year, the pandemic...

Jajpur: As 21-day lockdown has been in force to prevent the spread of deadly novel coronavirus across the nation and in the state, thousands of contractual labourers working in Nilachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL) and Mesco Steel are left in the lurch in Kalinganagar area...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailing the unprecedented discipline shown by the citizens of India urged all Indians to turn off the lights Sunday at 9.00pm in the evening light candles and stand in their respective balconies to boost the collective morale of the...

Berhampur: At least 34 Danduas, main actors of popular seasonal folk dance ‘Danda Nata’, were arrested from several villages in Ganjam district for allegedly trying to perform by violating the lockdown norms imposed to prevent the spread COVID-19, police said late Thursday evening. While nine...

Washington: The World Bank has approved USD 1 billion emergency funding for India to help it tackle the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 60 lives lives and infected close to 2,500 people in the country. The World Bank's first set of aid projects,...