23:51
The first experimental use of plasma therapy for treating a COVID-19 patient has been successful at Pune's state-run Sassoon general hospital, a senior doctor claimed on Thursday.A 47-year-old woman, who had co-morbid conditions such as hypertension, hyperthyroid and obesity and who was in...
23:44
The government on Thursday said its mega mission to evacuate stranded Indians from abroad will continue till June 13 and the extended phase will cover 47 countries.The second phase of the 'Vande Bharat Mission' was to end on May 22. However, Spokesperson in the Ministry of External...
22:46
The count of coronavirus positive patients in Mumbai crossed the 25,000 mark on Thursday with the addition of 1,382 cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.The number of COVID-19 cases in the country's financial capital now stands at 25,317, it said.The civic body said that...
22:43
T S Tirumurti, India's new Permanent Representative to the United Nations, presented his credentials virtually as he assumed charge as the Ambassador amid the coronavirus pandemic.Privileged to take over...as Permanent Representative of India to the UN in New York. During these COVID-19 times, I...
22:11
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's mega Opposition meet tomorrow via video conferencing will see three notable absentees.Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have decided to stay away from the online conclave, a...
21:54
The railways on Thursday cancelled tickets of all passengers of special trains whose originating and terminating stations fall within Maharashtra after the state government prohibited inter-district travel.In an order issued on Thursday, the railways said all the tickets of the special trains...
21:48
The Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to start intra-district State Transport (ST) bus services, excluding in red and COVID-19 containment zones, from Friday with certain conditions.The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) announced resumption of intra-district bus...
21:12
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake an aerial survey of 'cyclone-hit' areas on Friday, official sources said.A powerful cyclone Amphan tore into West Bengal, leaving 72 people dead and thousands homeless, battering several parts of the state and washing away bridges and swamping low-lying...
21:10
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake an aerial survey of 'cyclone-hit' areas on Friday, official sources said.A powerful cyclone Amphan tore into West Bengal, leaving 72 people dead and thousands homeless, battering several parts of the state and washing away bridges and swamping low-lying...
20:52
The Congress on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of indulging in vendetta politics after a case was registerd in Karnataka against Sonia Gandhi for raising questions over the PM-CARES fund.The party also hit out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh,...
20:39
JUST IN: Directorate General of Civil Aviation has issued seven fare bands for domestic flights that are set to resume from May 25:Domestic flights with less than 40-minute duration to have lower and upper limit of Rs 2,000 and Rs 6,000.For flights with duration between 40-60 minutes, lower and...
19:37
With over 20 lakh migrant workers returning to Uttar Pradesh in last few days, the state, specially its eastern part, on Thursday saw a quantum jump in the COVID-19 cases, with overall 1,230 people testing positive, including 95 in Barabanki, said officials. Over 5.42 lakh migrants...
19:27
India may witness COVID-19 cases peaking in mid-July if the current lockdown is lifted this month-end but expected to be a lower surge due to strong containment measures in the past nearly two months, a noted public health expert and epidemiologist said on Thursday. The country...
19:07
China said on Thursday that it will continue to accord priority to Pakistan in its neighbourhood diplomacy and reinforce iron-clad' ties as the all-weather allies celebrated the 69th year of the establishment of their diplomatic relations.Pakistan recognised China in 1951, a year after India...
18:57
Any suggestion that Indian troops had undertaken activity across the LAC in the Western Sector or the Sikkim sector is not accurate. Indian troops are fully familiar with the alignment of the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas and abide by it scrupulously. All Indian...
18:46
India on Thursday rejected China's allegations that Indian troops crossed over to the Chinese side of the frontier in Ladakh and Sikkim, asserting that New Delhi has been taking responsible approach towards border management. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said it...
18:36
The first United Kingdom frontline National Health Service worker will be enrolled as a participant into COPCOV, the largest multinational interventional clinical study into the prevention of COVID-19 using the investigational medicine hydroxychloroquine.Enrolment begins on Thursday at the...
18:14
Cyclone 'Amphan' should be declared a national calamity, the Communist Party of India-Marxist demanded on Thursday and said people in West Bengal and Odisha need the support of the Centre. The extremely severe cyclone 'Amphan' has left at least 12 people dead and ravaged Kolkata and several...
18:01
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a review meeting with CEOs of public sector banks on Friday to discuss various issues, including loan disbursement, as part of efforts to revive the economy reeling under the COVID-19 impact, sources said. The meeting, which was earlier...
17:20
Limits on air fares have been set in seven bands as per the flight durations and they would be in place till August 24, said civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday. The minister said the first band, which would have its specific lower and upper limits of air fare, will...
17:04
Four additional teams of the National Disaster Response Force are being airlifted to Kolkata on the request of the West Bengal government and will reach the city by late evening on Indian Air Force aircraft, the chief of the force, S N Prasad, said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference...
16:29
Update on Cyclone Amphan: -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says at least 72 people have died so far in the state. -- Rajiv Bansal, CMD of Air India says two aircraft parked at Kolkata airport are not damaged, but there is some damage to the hangar. A small private aircraft which...
16:03
Amid the coronavirus spread, hundreds of migrant labourers on Thursday gathered at the grounds in Kandivali's Mahavir Nagar in the hope of boarding Special Shramik trains to return home. Notably, today two out of three trains scheduled to leave from Borivali for Uttar Pradesh, were...
15:53
IMD chief Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
The Odisha government on Thursday showered praises on the India Meteorological Department, saying the weather forecast is getting better with time, a day after cyclone 'Amphan' rolled past its coast causing minimal damage in the state. The government thanked IMD's Director General Mrutyunjay...
15:33
A day after the standoff between the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government and the Congress over the latter's offer to provide 1,000 buses for migrants, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed those trying to help stranded labourers are being jailed and asked party workers to carry on with the fight. Uttar...
15:27
Coronavirus death toll in Delhi mounts to 194; highest single-day spike of 571 fresh cases takes tally to 11,659: Authorities.
15:12
US President Donald Trump has said he may seek to revive a face-to-face meeting of G7 leaders near Washington, following the previous cancellation of the in-person gathering of world leaders owing to the coronavirus pandemic.I am considering rescheduling the G7, on the same or similar date, in...
15:09
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday paid rich tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary, saying that he laid the foundation of telecommunication and information technology (IT) in the country. Thackeray said Gandhi's contribution to India's...
15:03
Tragedy struck an elderly migrant worker who was looking forward to joining his family as he died on reaching a nearby railway station to board a Shramik Special train to his home state Madhya Pradesh, police said on Thursday. The 69-year old man, who worked in a coffee estate in...
14:52
The Maharashtra government has so far released Rs 67.19 crore through the Chief Minister's Relief Fund to bear the cost of train travel of the stranded migrant workers to their native places from the state, an official said on Thursday. The government, which had initially provided Rs 54.75...
14:35
Mangled remains of vehicles pile up at a street in Kolkata
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday spoke to chief ministers of Odisha and West Bengal -- Naveen Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee respectively -- and assured them of all central help to deal with the situation arising due to cyclone Amphan. Shah also said he was constantly monitoring the...
14:30
A waterlogged street in Kolkata
No stone will be left unturned in helping those affected by cyclone 'Amphan', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. The cyclone has left at least 12 people dead and damaged infrastructure in the state. In this challenging hour, the entire nation stands in solidarity with West Bengal....
14:23
A case has been registered against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in Karnataka in connection with a tweet posted on the party's official handle alleging misuse of PM-CARES Fund, police said. The Sagara town police in Shivamogga district registered the case on Wednesday based on a complaint by...
14:11
A traffic signal is bent over an uprooted tree in Kolkata
The India Meteorological Department said on Thursday that 'Amphan' has weakened significantly and moved over to Bangladesh as a cyclonic storm after clobbering West Bengal, leaving at least 12 dead and blowing up shanties, uprooting thousands of trees and swamping low-lying areas. In the next...
14:00
Fitch Solutions has said that the latest stimulus package does not address immediate concerns of the healthcare system which is reeling under the pressure of COVID-19 pandemic. On March 11, the Ministry of Finance increased allocation - 0.008 per cent of the country's GDP - to the health...
13:47
President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the credentials from Ambassadors and High Commissioners of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, Mauritius, Australia, Cote d'Ivoire and Rwanda through video conference today. This was the first time in the history of the...
13:42
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweets this image with her father Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary today and writes, To be kind to those who are unkind to you; to know that life is fair, no matter how unfair you imagine it to be; to keep walking, no matter how dark the skies or fearsome the storm; .To...
13:11
A quarantine facility in Srinagar
Uttarakhand minister S Uniyal on Thursday said that the state does not have enough infrastructure to quarantine lakhs of people as coronavirus cases are increasing in several districts due to influx of people from outside. As people have started coming from outside, cases have emerged in Tehri,...
13:08
A platform is cleaned and disinfected
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announces that booking of train tickets will resume at around 1.7 lakh common service centres from tomorrow across the country. Bookings will also resume at counters of different stations in the next 2-3 days. The government is developing a protocol in this regard.So...
12:51
The Congress on Thursday said that it has decided not to publish advertisements on the death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and instead use this money to help labourers and daily wage workers amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown.The party said that its workers across the...
12:44
Amid cyclone Amphan, the National Disaster Management Authority on Thursday advised people against going out until government's green signal. Only venture out after a cyclone when all clear messages are declared by the Government Officials, NDMA wrote on Twitter.Cyclone Amphan made landfall in...
12:39
A fallen tree at Kalyani in Nadia district of West Bengal in the aftermath of the Amphan cyclone yesterday. Kalyani is a self-contained township approximately 54 km from Kolkata. Electricity lines were down this morning. Pic: Ujjwal Haldar/Rediff.com
12:25
Chef Vikas Khanna with his mother
Michelin-Star chef Vikas Khanna is set to organise the world's largest Eid feast in Mumbai to feed nearly 1.75 lakh people in the city worst-affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The 48-year-old world-renowned chef, author and film-maker, who has distributed millions of dry ration meals to...
11:47
Here's the reality check: More than 50 million people in India do not have access to effective handwashing, putting them at a greater risk of acquiring and transmitting the novel coronavirus, according to a study. Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the...
11:39
Asserting that returning migrant workers are our brethren, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said he would welcome them with open heart in the state and that they cannot be blamed for the rise in coronavirus cases.Migrants are humans too. They are our brethren. We do...
11:32
US President Donald Trump has said that the regimen of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine that he is taking to ward off the coronavirus will finish in the next day or two. Trump disclosed on Tuesday that he was taking the drug despite medical warnings about potential serious side effects and...
11:28
And another image of the devastation at Kolkata airport.
11:28
The collapsed roof of the AI hanger
Kolkata's domestic and international airport at Dum Dum is inundated by the floodwaters left in the wake of the devastating super cyclone Amphan which made landfall last evening. Images of a flooded runway, a collapsed Air India hanger, floodwaters in offices at the airport, have been released by...
10:44
Three newly recruited terrorists have been arrested by joint forces at Sogam of Kupwara district. Further investigation underway, says Jammu and Kashmir Police.
10:42
For every positive COVID-19 test more than 20 negative tests have been done, the ICMR has said, asserting there has been a 1,000-fold increase in the quantum of tests per day in the last two months. A total of 25,12,388 samples had been tested by 9 am of May 20, and the testing capacity has been...
10:38
The Airport Authority of India on Thursday issued standard operating procedures (SOP) for airports for recommencement of domestic flights. It said the Aarogya Setu app is mandatory for all passengers except children below 14 years of age.Passengers must compulsorily walk through thermal screening...
10:28
As his father's health worsened, Mohammad Shamshad, 28, made all efforts to rush back to his village in Hardoi district in Uttar Pradesh. But he found all roads that could take him home blocked at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border. Sitting under a flyover on the Delhi-Ghaziabad border on Wednesday...
10:25
TS Tirumurti assumes office as India's Permanent Representative to the UN. Privileged to take over yesterday as Permanent Representative of India to the UN in New York. During these COVID-19 times, I was the second Ambassador/ PR to UN to present virtual credentials! @MEAIndia...
09:51
A sr citizen Covid patient defies odds and recovers
Most people in their advance age, especially among those who are infected by the novel coronavirus and are suffering from some underlying disease such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and obesity, have lower rates of survival, even if they are put on ventilators, a study said.The...
09:46
The first special Air India flight from Sydney to New Delhi, under Vande Bharat Mission took off today with 224 Indians onboard, says the High Commission of India in Australia. No social distancing observed. Middle seats have not been left empty.
09:41
The super cyclonic storm Amphan has moved north-northeastwards with a speed of 27 kilometres per hour during the past six hours, further weakened into a cyclonic storm and lay centred on Thursday over Bangladesh.The super cyclonic storm 'Amphan' moved north northeastwards with a speed of 27 kmph...
09:39
The Washim district administration in Maharashtra has decided to impose a penalty of Rs 2,000 on those not following the home quarantine norms upon their return from other places and Rs 500 for spitting and not wearing masks in public places. The decision has been taken in the wake of...
09:23
Corona numbers are in and the rise continues. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reports a spike of 5,609 COVID-19 cases and 132 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in the country now at 1,12,359, including 63,624 active cases and 3435 deaths.
08:56
Update on Cyclone Amphan: Extremely severe cyclone Amphan has left 12 persons dead and ravaged Kolkata and several parts of West Bengal as it left behind a trail of destruction by uprooting trees, destroying thousands of homes and swamping low-lying areas of the state. While a man and a...
08:51
Buses carrying migrants left for various states from Delhi-Ghazipur border on Wednesday night. A passenger, Ramdev Sharma said, I am going to Jharkhand and have paid Rs 4,000 as bus charge. The driver of a bus, Santosh said, I think more people have boarded the bus than required according to...
08:39
In news of Covid-19, police personnel were seen screening people arriving at the Okhla vegetable market in New Delhi, through infrared thermometer on Thursday. People had arrived at the market early on Thursday to make purchases. The national capital has reported total 10,554 COVID-19 positive...
08:38
Road clearance and restoration work by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel are underway after extremely severe cyclonic storm Amphan hit West Bengal on Wednesday. Severe cyclonic storm Amphan over Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coast moved north-northeastwards with a speed of...
08:23
After wreacking havoc over West Bengal and Odisha, the severe cyclonic storm Amphan has moved north-northeast with a speed of 30 kmph over the past six hours. It is very likely to continue to weaken further into a deep depression during the next three hours, the IMD has said. Two persons...
07:52
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally.It represents a new phase in the virus' spread, which initially peaked in China in February, before...
01:31
The government will soon start a pan-India helpline number for migrant workers to report their grievances, according to an official note.The helpline, to be set up under the chief labour commissioner, will not be a toll-free number.'Short code 14445 is allocated to office of chief labour...
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