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The number of hospitalised COVID-19 patients in China's Wuhan, where the virus first emerged before turning out to be a pandemic, on Sunday dropped to zero for the first time, marking yet another milestone for the city which was opened up on April 8 after a 76-day lockdown.The result has been...
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JUST IN: Mumbai Police has given notice to Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami under Code of Criminal Procedure 41A to join the investigation of the first information report registered by Maharashtra state minister Nitin Raut against him for his statement on Congress president Sonia Gandhi during a...
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The number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra crossed the 8,000-mark on Sunday after 440 more people were found infected, a health official said.With the new cases, the number of such patients in the state has now reached 8,068, the official said.With 19 more people succumbing to the infection,...
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More than a month after testing positive for the coronavirus, singer Kanika Kapoor on Sunday said there have been several 'wrong exchanges of information' regarding her travel timeline and battle with the disease.Kanika, who was the first Bollywood personality to test positive for the novel virus...
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An unidentified Pakistani intruder was shot dead along the Indo-Pak border in Amritsar on Sunday after he ignored repeated warnings by Border Security Force personnel, officials said.They said a BSF patrol team noticed some suspicious movements at Bhindi Saida village near the border on Sunday...
20:21
MNCs, BPOs and IT enabled services (ITES) in Gurgaon may have to allow their employees to work from home till the end of July, says Gurgaon Metropolitan Development Authority CEO V S Kundu.Kundu, who is also additional chief secretary of Haryana, added that several real estate projects, including...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said that the decision on relaxation of restrictions in the state will be taken after a review of the situation once the national lockdown ends on May 3.He said this during his televised address over the coronavirus situation in the...
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Fifteen Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel posted in a Delhi-based battalion have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Sunday.The troops belong to CRPF's 31st battalion in which nine men had tested positive on Thursday, a senior official said.With the fresh cases, the number...
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Former Union minister and controversial Bharatiya Janata Party MP Anantkumar Hegde on Sunday said his Twitter account has been blocked and accused the microblogging site of taking an 'anti-India stand' and acting 'with very prejudiced intentions'.The MP from Uttara Kannada has also written to...
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The Maharashtra government has decided to make coronavirus tests and treatment in medical and dental colleges under the state's Medical Education Department free and people should not avoid treatment thinking about high costs, Minister Amit Deshmukh said on Sunday. Deshmukh, guardian minister...
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said pool testing should be encouraged in the state to ensure that coronavirus is contained in the hotspots and containment zones.At present, pool testing of coronavirus samples is being conducted in Lucknow, Meerut and Etawah.Pooling of...
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The lockdown in Delhi will not be relaxed beyond what the Union home ministry has suggested in its guidelines, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday and added that his government's focus is on bringing down COVID-19 infections in the city.Addressing an online media briefing, the chief...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation has taken DHFL promoter Kapil Wadhawan and RKW Developers promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan into custody from a Mahabaleshwar-based quarantine facility in connection with a case of bribery against former Yes Bank CEO Rana Kapoor, officials said on Sunday.A process of...
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A 30-year-old Pakistan national has been apprehended by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the international border in Punjab on Sunday, officials said.The man has been nabbed by the force at around 10 am from near the Hussainiwala India-Pakistan retreat ceremony area in Ferozepur sector.The...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that the government should conduct one lakh COVID-19 tests per day to beat the virus.'Experts agree that mass random testing is the key to beating Corona. In India, a bottleneck is stopping us from scaling testing from the current 40,000 per day to 1...
14:44
A four-year-old Keralite boy, who was forced to be away from his parents for over a month due to the lockdown, was re-united, thanks to the intervention of firefighters.After the boy's father, an electrician, was asked to go on home quarantine in mid March, the parents -- Sajith and Vishnupriya...
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14 Border Security Force (BSF) jawans have been quarantined in Chhattisgarh for suspected coronavirus infection after they returned from Agra, officials said on Sunday.Their final test reports are awaited, a senior official said.The troops had reached Bhilai town in the central Indian state on...
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A pregnant woman, who hailed from a COVID-19 red zone area, died at a maternity hospital in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting authorities to order an inquiry into the death, officials said.The woman, who hailed from Kharpora village -- which has been declared a coronavirus red...
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A sub-collector and circle inspector were among more than 100 people directed to self quarantine in Kozhikode after a mentally unsound destitute man housed in a shelter camp visited by them tested positive for COVID-19, a top police official said.The man was in a shelter camp set up by the...
12:58
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 'Mann ki Baat':'This Ramzan, we should pray more than before to ensure that before Eid the world gets rid of Coronavirus.'I am sure we will strengthen this fight by following orders of the local administration.' -- ANI
12:58
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 'Mann ki Baat':'This Ramzan, we should pray more than before to ensure that before Eid the world gets rid of Coronavirus.'I am sure we will strengthen this fight by following orders of the local administration.' -- ANI
12:23
IMAGE: Actor Sarvadaman Banerjee played Lord Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's 'Shri Krishna'. Photograph: Kind counrtesy Sarvadaman Banerjee/Facebook
More than 20 years after its broadcast, Ramanand Sagar's epic mythological series Shri Krishna is all set to make a comeback on Doordarshan, the broadcaster announced on Sunday.The show joins other popular epics such as Ramayan and Mahabharat to be re-run amid the nationwide lockdown due to the...
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PM Modi exhorts people to stop spitting in public places, says it will increase basic hygiene and strengthen fight against COVID-19.He also said that wearing mask has to become a habit. It does not mean a person wearing it is unwell, it is just wise precaution, the PM said.Modi warned people...
11:21
Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins his 'Mann Ki Baat' address:India's fight against Coronavirus is people-driven. This fight is being fought by the people and the administration together. Every citizen as a soldier is fighting this war, Modi said in 'Mann ki Baat'.People are rising to occasion...
11:06
The Maharashtra government has issued a circular stressing on the importance of social distancing, hygiene and wearing of protection gear, after some of its employees tested positive for coronavirus.The circular issued by the public health department on Saturday said some government staff...
10:53
With air and rail passenger services suspended due to a COVID-19-induced lockdown, two judges have embarked on a road journey, each of them covering over 2,000 km, as they gear up to take charge as chief justices of high courts in separate corners of the country. The judges -- who were...
10:31
Tauseef Khan, a resident doctor at the KGMU here who recently defeated COVID-19, began the holy month of Ramzan, which is considered a time for giving, by donating his plasma for treatment of others suffering from the deadly disease.Khan, in his late 20s, contracted coronavirus from a patient...
10:19
A bored truck drivers effort to kill time by indulging in a game of cards with friends and neighbours led to the infection of coronavirus in 24 people in one locality of Vijayawada city in Andhra Pradesh, Krishna district collector A Md Imtiaz said on Saturday. A social...
09:27
India recorded 1,990 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, its biggest single-day spike so far, taking the total tally to 26, 496, including 824 deaths, the Union health ministry said. Forty-nine deaths linked to the highly contagious illness were reported from different parts of the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 64th edition of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' at 11 am on Sunday amid the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.Have been getting several insightful inputs for this month's #MannKiBaat. Do tune at 11 am tomorrow, the PM tweeted on Saturday.In...
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As Donald Trump cancelled the regular coronavirus task force briefing on Saturday, the US President said he sees no point of having press conferences as he is mostly asked hostile questions by a section of American media, which he claimed gets record ratings by reporting fake news.What is the...
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