Coronavirus

Jammu: Around 400 pilgrims of Mata Vaishno Devi shrine who could not return to their homes are safely sheltered in Jammu city. Ramesh Kumar, CEO of the shrine board, said, “We have no yatri stranded anywhere either at the shrine or in Katra town. “Our...

New Delhi: Unlike the public sector banks, customers of private banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) would continue to pay EMIs on their term-loans unless a specific instruction is issued, as per the Covid-19 RBI package. Several private banks and NBFCs informed their customers on...

New Delhi: Asserting that the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin area has caused a ‘big damage’ to the government’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) asked Wednesday all states to ensure strict compliance of the lockdown by madrasas and...

New Delhi: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi has written to the Prime Minister urging him to arrange advance payments for MNREGA workers in support of nearly eight crore rural workers in the country. “Given the urgency of providing income support to the rural poor, due...

Mumbai: Actor Ajay Devgn will be donating Rs 51 lakh to Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) to aid daily wage film workers, who have been left without jobs due to the lockdown amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Confirming the news, Ashok Dubey, general...

Mumbai: Madhuri Dixit Nene feels that dance is one of the best forms of workout. As most people are locked in their homes now due to the nationwide lockdown, the veteran actress has teamed up with Kathak exponent Birju Maharaj and choreographers like Saroj Khan,...

Mumbai: Amid lockdown, actor Hrithik Roshan has been trying to hone his piano skills even as his former wife Sussanne Khan photobombs him. Hrithik shared a video of him playing the piano, wherein he said that while he's just learning to play the musical instrument...

New Delhi: Former India all-rounder and Man of the Series in the 2011 World Cup Yuvraj Singh has said that out of the three captains he played under, he got the maximum support from Sourav Ganguly. In an illustrious career Yuvraj Singh played 304 ODIs,...

Guwahati/Agartala/Imphal: Five people have so far tested positive for coronavirus in Assam, who attended the congregation at Nizamuddin in Delhi and the number of positive cases in the state might cross the double digit, Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Wednesday. Addressing the media,...

London: Driving to work at his factory to the west of London last week, designer Steve Brooks had coronavirus on his mind. He was thinking about making a new gadget he should make that would let him open a door without touching the handle. “Everyone...