Mumbai: After the Tablighi Jamaat’s Delhi event that led to a huge spurt in Covid-19 cases in the country, the Maharashtra government Saturday imposed a total ban on all religious gatherings till further orders. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar made...
Read moreNew Delhi: Flag carrier Air India Saturday commenced the first cargo flight between Shanghai and Delhi. “An Air-bridge between Shanghai & Delhi has been established,” the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a statement Saturday. “Air India will be operating dedicated scheduled cargo flights to...
Read moreNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed officials to ensure sufficient availability of all medical equipment such as ventilators, coveralls, masks, to be used in Covid-19 response. Prime Minister Modi Saturday chaired a joint meeting of the empowered groups constituted for planning and ensuring...
Read moreMorena: The mystery of sudden jump in coronavirus cases in Morena was unravelled Friday night, when it was found that the infected people had attended a meal organised on the death anniversary of a woman, 10 days ago. A young couple, who had returned to...
Read moreNew Delhi: In yet another relief to taxpayers, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the validity of forms 15G and 15H by three months to June 30, 2020 and prevent banks from deducting TDS on interest income of individuals. As per an...
Read moreBhubaneswar: The quantity of affirmed new coronavirus cases in South Asia approached 6,000 Saturday, even as experts in certain urban communities fixed limitations on development and cautioned lockdowns could be stretched out in an offer to get control over the pandemic. “If people don’t obey...
Read moreNew Delhi: Amid the nationwide lockdown, some unidentified persons broke into a wine shop here and decamped with liquor bottles, police said Saturday. During patrolling Saturday morning, police found that the shutter of a wine shop at the Roshnara Road in north Delhi was broken....
Read moreBareilly: At least 200 people were evacuated from the Shahdana Wali Dargah here and sent homes after medical screening and instruction to remain in self-quarantine, officials said Saturday. Dargah’s mutwalli (caretaker) Wajid Ali said that these people were from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and other places...
Read moreMumbai: Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut has expressed fear that switching off the lights simultaneously for nine minutes could lead to a multi-state grid collapse and result in blackout in the entire country. In his statement issued Friday night, Raut has appealed to the people...
Read moreNagpur: In a major relief during the COVID-19 lockdown, the Maharashtra police will now issue passes for inter-district travel to people in need. In an order issued Friday, special Inspector General of Police (Spl IGP) Milind Bharambe directed all police units to issue inter-district travel...
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For many babus, rules are only for others not for the heaven-born. An IAS officer in Kerala skipped home quarantine...
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The Centre has slashed interest rates on popular small savings schemes – a mainstay of nearly half of the nation’s...
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We select one disease to be mortally afraid of – and ignore all the diseases that we should be scared...
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The unplanned manner in which Prime Minister Modi declared the COVID-linked 21-day lockdown is taking a harsh toll. For instance,...
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