India’s COVID-19 numbers stand at 2,547 cases and 62 deaths, according to the Union health ministry, on Friday, the Day 10 of nationwide lockdown. To display the country’s collective resolve to defeat the crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now made a special appeal for the citizens.
New Delhi: The coronavirus outbreak is impacting every sector of the country, including India’s tourism industry which can incur an overall loss of ₹5 lakh crore and affect jobs of about 4 to 5 crore people.
A Pune based start-up, Repos Energy is facilitating the service of providing fuels to hospitals with their door-to-door diesel delivery amid the lockdown in the country due to coronavirus.
Wah, Modi ji, wah! You really are a genius. This morning you appeared on national television at exactly 9 o’clock and asked all of us to light candles and torches for exactly 9 minutes at 9 o’clock this Sunday (April 5). Wow! 9, 9 and another 9. Like a trail in teen patti.
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to switch off lights for nine minutes at 9 pm on April 5, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday (April 3) ridiculed him saying the country was not an event management company. Owaisi's comments ...
New Delhi: The IOA has helped raise ₹71 lakh through donations from its state affiliates and National Sports Federations (NSF) as contribution towards the country's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
As fake contents about Ayurvedic and Homeopathic cure to COVID-19 spread rapidly on social media, the Press Council of India on Friday (April 3) urged the print media to refrain from publishing stories and advertisements on AYUSH-related claims for t...
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday (April 3) approved release of Rs 11,092 crore to all states under the State Disaster Risk Management Fund (SDRMF) for setting up quarantine facilities and arranging other facilities for checking the spread of coronavirus.
Karachi: Pakistan's Sindh province government on Friday (April 3) invoked the Maintenance of Public Order to keep in jail British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh after a court overturned his death sentence in the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002.
Cinema often reflects society but some filmmakers have gone the other way and projected an imagined future. Based partly on science and partly on fiction, these films remain just films until an imagined scenario becomes real. Steven Soderbergh’s gloomy Contagion seems to almost reflect the COVID-19 pandemic scenario in the world now. Just that it was released in 2011. Certain other aspects of the current crisis are reflected in Tamil films Dasavatharam and 7am Arivu. What is it about these films that people strongly feel about? Click here to know more.
Kottayam: A 93-year old man, India's oldest COVID-19 survivor, and his wife were discharged from the government Medical College Hospital in Kottayam, days after they fully recovered, the officials said.
Amaravati: The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday (April 3) confirmed the first coronavirus-related death in the state, days after a 55-year-old man died in a government hospital in Vijayawada.
Hyderabad: Two Telangana ministers and their family members participated in the Ram Navami celebrations at a Bhadrachalam temple on Thursday, despite the government orders against mass gathering during the ongoing 21-day lockdown period over the coronavirus pandemic.
New Delhi: The coronavirus outbreak is impacting every sector of the country, including India’s tourism industry which can incur an overall loss of ₹5 lakh crore and affect jobs of about 4 to 5 crore people.
As the number of COVID-19 cases crossed the one-million mark worldwide, fuelling uncertainty over the economic impact of the pandemic, equity indices spiralled lower for yet another session on Friday (April 3).
Unabated foreign fund outflows ...
Mumbai: Amid the 21-day countrywide lockdown, traders in India have another challenge to face in the form of a long weekend as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Friday (April 3) morning could not offer specific measures being taken to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
New Delhi: India's economic growth is likely to slow down to 4 per cent this fiscal on the back of the current global health emergency, Asian Development Bank said in its outlook for financial year 2020-21 on Friday (April 3).
Growth in India will remai...
New York: Boeing unveiled a voluntary worker layoff programme on Thursday (April 2), telling employees that it hoped to avoid "other workforce actions" as the aviation industry reels from the coronavirus crisis.
In a relief to manufacturers, packers and importers, the Central government has allowed them tore-label new retail prices on their unsold pre-packaged products by September 30, 2020.
In the wake of revision in Goods and Services Tax (GST), th...
Mumbai: Domestic ratings agency Acuite Ratings has forecast a massive 5-6 per cent contraction in growth in the first quarter of the new fiscal due to the coronavirus-driven lockdown.
The agency estimates the daily loss to the economy from the lockdo...
United Nations: The global economy could shrink by up to one per cent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a reversal from the previous forecast of 2.5 per cent growth, the UN has said, warning that it may contract even further if restrictions on the economic activities are extended without adequate fiscal responses.
New Delhi: The IOA has helped raise ₹71 lakh through donations from its state affiliates and National Sports Federations (NSF) as contribution towards the country's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (April 3) spoke to India's top athletes, including cricket stars such as current captain Virat Kohli, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, amid a national lockdo...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has gripped India, former England captain Michael Vaughan has suggested a five-week Indian Premier League tournament, leading up to the ICC T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in Australia between October 1...
As the Wimbledon organisers on Wednesday (April 1) scrapped the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament for the first time since World War II due to coronavirus, eight-time champion Roger Federer said he was “devastated”.
Taking to...
Not many people knew that an Indian Cricket Team for the physically challenged existed until last year when they won a World Disability Series in England. India remained unbeaten throughout the six-nation tournament, including the warm-up games.
London: Queen Elizabeth II will make a special broadcast this weekend to Britain and the Commonwealth on the coronavirus pandemic, Buckingham Palace said on Friday (April 3).
Beijing: China has begun the construction of two advanced naval ships for Pakistan as its defence industry resumed production after over two months following the disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak which brought the country to a standstill.
Islamabad: Several mosques remained opened on Friday across Pakistan and people offered prayers there despite a government ban on big congregational gatherings in order to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Karachi: Pakistan's Sindh province government on Friday (April 3) invoked the Maintenance of Public Order to keep in jail British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh after a court overturned his death sentence in the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi in 2002.
Kolkata: There’s no risk of virus transmission during cremation or burial of coronavirus victims as officials are taking necessary precautions, said the West Bengal health department in an advisory. It said there was no chance of airborne transmission as the disease spreads through droplets coughed or sneezed out by an infected patient.
Bengaluru: Bengaluru-based genetic and microbiome testing firm Bione has launched India’s first rapid COVID-19 at-home screening test kit. After requisite approval, the kit is now available for sale on their website, the company said in a release.
With the risk of fatality in coronavirus linked to comorbidities like diabetes, hypertension and cancer, besides chronic respiratory diseases, the viral pandemic has brought to the fore the need to address non-communicable diseases (NCD) and their treatment in India.
Chennai: While India is set to begin antibody tests on people to identify more cases of COVID-19, a lot of doubts have risen on what is different about the antibody test when compared to the regular diagnostic testing that has been done so far.
New Delhi: The Union HRD Ministry on Friday (March 27) postponed the national medical entrance exam, NEET, in view of the countrywide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, officials said.
What turned out to be a fun Sunday (March 22) for students across the country amid ‘Janata curfew’ in view of the coronavirus outbreak, ‘Super 30’ founder Anand Kumar challenged children to solve a mathematics question via social media.
