A home ministry official said while 9,000 Tablighi Jamaat members and their primary contacts have been quarantined till now across the country due to "massive efforts" to check the outbreak, the Centre has written to all states and union territories that "the lockdown measures should be implemented in letter and spirit".
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In the Silicon Valley of India, one can use the cryptocurrency to pay for food, buy bus tickets, order stuff online, and even get a haircut.
Should the 30-year-old three-time Rome champion, ranked 211 in the world, reach the semi-finals, she would almost certainly earn an automatic Wimbledon main draw slot ahead of the May 22 rankings cut-off date.
Arsenal's resurgent Alexis Sanchez scored twice to help ease their top-four jitters in a 2-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League at a less than full Emirates Stadium on Thursday.
Budget proposals have set four goals to transform Indian Railways.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam might have been pushed into a corner to come up with a prohibition policy of its own, if only to create the right atmosphere for talking about an Opposition coalition in the state, says N Sathiya Moorthy
AirAsia has rolled out fares as low as Rs 3,399 for a Visakhapatnam-Kuala Lumpur.
While making it clearly evident that he would contest the next Lok Sabha election from Sultanpur -- regarded as the bastion of the Gandhi family -- Varun did not hesitate to align with a local history-sheeter and former Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Chandrabhadra Singh alias Sonu Singh, who was inducted into the BJP barely 24 hours ago.
Stepping up his attack on Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party rebel Jaswant Singh on Tuesday said "personality cult" was not good in a democracy and it would harm the party.
One World Observatory: Bird's eye view of NYC from 1,250 ft
Officials evicted several people from the opening match of the cricket World Cup at Hagley Oval.
Revamping Indian Railways will need bold thinking, and lots of money and time. And all three may be scarce, points out T N Ninan.
The president-elect has vast public, social, and political experience which will help him better to discharge his duty as the First Citizen of India.
'In the US, they have created a blacklist for fliers. We are trying to do the same here.'
While Google has market capitalisation of almost $753 billion and Facebook commands one of $515 billion, it is the wealth of user data they have that one fears
A summary of Thursday's Euro 2020 qualifying matches.
The financial year ending Saturday saw such big-ticket events that set the directional tone for the country's business journey.
A summary of Tuesday's qualification matches next year's FIFA World Cup.
'The West Indies' pace battery was lethal.' 'Watching Gavaskar, Gaekwad, Amarnath and Vengsarkar play against those bowlers I learnt so much.' 'Everybody was getting hit.' 'Someone got hit on the fingers, someone on the chest, someone on the face, but they all showed guts.'
The dollar bond market has been a favourite for Indian firms in 2014.
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'What aspect of the air strikes would make it possible for a voter to change her mind?' asks Aakar Patel.
The ministry of civil aviation has recommended three levels of unruly behaviour by passengers, each with a different duration of ban on flying.
Sir Mark Tully on the magic of Indian elections. A fascinating excerpt from The Great March of Democracy: Seven Decades of India's Elections.
Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been trying to shrug off the 'communal' tag, has fielded nearly 40 per cent Muslim candidates in Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls under its ambitious 'Mission 44 plus' to wrest power in the state.
The Hong Kong Football Association were left red-faced and out of pocket after only managing to sell half the tickets for Tuesday's glamour friendly against Argentina to mark their centenary.
Four days after creating a flutter with a stunning 4-1 drubbing of Thailand, India are now looking an upbeat lot in the continental showpiece.
'Sachin Pilot once calculated that with a million Indians flooding the labour market every month, only an additional 12 million jobs annually could keep unemployment at the same level.' 'That's chickenfeed for the functionaries who cram my e-mail inbox every day with such a constant flow of job offers that trying to empty it is like trying to drink dry the horn connected to the ocean in Norse mythology,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that had he been in the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he would have changed perception of law and order in the state within 15 days and advised Akhilesh not to hesitate in sending errant officers to jail.
Calculate his monthly expenses, health care spending, how much funds will he need once he retires, and whether his current savings and investments will enable him to manage his lifestyle through retirement, suggests Ashok Kumar E R, CEO and co-founder, Scripbox.
A 15-year-old South African girl was deboarded from a flight to Turkey moments before she was allegedly trying to flee the country to join the dreaded Islamic State militant group.
'Our government has created 10 million jobs when the Indian unemployment rate is at a 45-year high.'
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The nexus between middlemen, arms agents and government officials has been broken, according to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.
'We don't make films which have scope for great music anymore.'
With the rupee crossing Rs 72/dollar in recent times, things suddenly don't look too good on several counts.
The BJP offers Saifuddin Soz 'one-way ticket' to Pakistan
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