Coronavirus

Washington: Amid rapid spread of COVID-19, joint teams from NASA and SpaceX executed in March a full simulation of launch and docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft which will take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley participated...

Bolangir: Bolangir town police set an example for others by distributing food among the poor and helpless amid the 21-day lockdown in place to battle coronavirus outbreak. Led by Bolangir SP Sandeep Madkar, the cops went to Khujenpali and provided cooked food to leprosy patients....

Chandigarh: A baton wielding Punjab Police officer has sung a song to inspire people to stay indoors and make the fight against coronavirus a success. Assistant Sub-Inspector Pamma Malhi is urging people through the song to follow statewide lockdown rules and health advisory to enable...

New Delhi: An audio clip which is going viral on social media has stunned the authorities, as someone can be heard saying that “there is no need of social distancing also it is not written anywhere in our religion”. There are claims that this voice...

Hyderabad: An active member of Tablighi Jamaat, who had attended the Delhi meeting of the organisation, died at a private hospital in Hyderabad. There was no information or confirmation yet on the cause of death. Ahmed Abdul Muqeet died at Yashoda Hospital at Malakpet late...

New Delhi: Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal Wednesday advised officials to deploy firefighters to disinfect vulnerable neighbourhoods, especially the hot spots, quarantine centres, among others to check the spread of novel coronavirus. Baijal had a daily videoconference meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Secretary,...

Bhubaneswar: President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Wednesday greeted the people of Odisha on the occasion of Utkala Dibasa, while it was being observed sans celebrations due to the nationwide lockdown to contain spread of the novel coronavirus....

Aul: The Kendrapara police have identified a Maulana and admitted him at the isolation ward of Kendrapara District Headquarters Hospital, who had attended the Tablighi Jammat meeting organised at Hazrat Nizammudin Dargah in New Delhi. The Maulana is a resident of Aul. He clarified that...

Ganjam: The nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of novel coronavirus for 21 days has triggered labour shortage among salt farmers in Ganjam district, severely impacting the harvest of salt in the district. For salt farmers, who were in the midst of harvesting or were...

New Delhi: Even as the Delhi Police were evacuating hundreds of people from Tablighi group's international headquarters Nizamuddin Markaz, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval visited the southwest Delhi area to take stock of the situation. According to Delhi Police sources, Doval arrived around 2...