MUMBAI, APRIL 16 (IANS): In a significant announcement, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday said that Mumbai has been spared "community transmission" of Covid-19.
The decl
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NEW DELHI, APRIL 16 (IANS): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) to intervene while hi
NEW DELHI, APRIL 16 (IANS): The well-known Zoom video conferencing app for meetings is not a safe platform, the Cyber Coordination Centre (CCC) of the Ministry of Home Affairs has warned in an advisory las
Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu. (IANS Photo)
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 16 (IANS): Punjab has succeeded in breaking the chain of coronavirus in one of the worst hit districts where the number of patients
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SRINAGAR, APRIL 16 (IANS): While shocking visuals of traffic rush emerged on Wednesday, the most of Jammu is following the lockdown in letter and spirit with women helping at s
Congress ,leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference via video conferencing, during the extended nationwide lockdown imposed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, in New Delhi on April 16. (IANS Ph
NEW DELHI, APRIL 16 (IANS): With the nationwide lockdown extended till May 3, the central government has deferred all the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) examinations. The new dates will be announced afte
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Centre has hit back at the US Commision on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for spreading false information on medical protocols followed by professionals to prevent
Children play games on mobile phones inside a building during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, at Dadar in Mumbai. Photograph: Kunal Patil/PTI Photo
New Delhi, Ap
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NEW DELHI, APRIL 15 (IANS): Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan on Wednesday wrote to chief secretaries of states and Union terrirtories,
Daily wage labourers stand outside their quarters at a construction site where activity has been halted due to 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delh
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NEW DELHI, APRIL 15 (IANS): With the reporting of 1,118 new cases in the last 24 hours, the coronavirus tally in the country has reached 11,933, according to the Ministry of He
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday held a high-level meeting through video conferencing with the World Health Organisation (WHO) officials on the measures to combat the coron
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 15 (IANS): Police in Kerala on Wednesday registered a case against a group of 17 foreign tourists who broke the lockdown norms and went for a swim in
NEW DELHI, APRIL 15 (IANS): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday requested the Central government to issue an advisory to the states and Union Territories to ask public servan
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NEW DELHI, APRIL 15 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday recorded the Centres undertaking that it would take measures to provide wide-ranging exemp
Noida (UP), April 15 (PTI): Coughing in times of coronavirus is bound to invite fearful stares, but when a 25-year-old man in Greater Noida coughed during a ludo game, he was shot and injured by a fellow v
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, APRIL 15 (IANS): A man travelling by an autorickshaw in Punalur, about 90 km from the state capital, to get his aged father back from a hospital had to carry him on his shoulders after
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Kailash Chaudhary said that the farmers will be paid within three days of their crops purchased by the government.
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday that 11.41 per cent of coronavirus patients have recovered from the infection and a total of 170 districts have been identified with h