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
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Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan. (IANS File Photo)
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
Supreme Court. (IANS File Photo)
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
Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Mohammad Saad Kandhalvi. (IANS File Photo)
NEW DELHI, APRIL 15 (IANS): Tablighi Jamaat leader Maulana Mohammad Saad Kandhalvi is increasingly coming under fire f
Gujartat BJP chief Vijay Rupani. (IANS File Photo)
GANDHINAGAR, APRIL 15 (IANS): Following Congress MLA Imran Khedawala testing positive for coronavirus a few hours after their meeti
The Haryana government will now supply ration and other essential commodities under the PDS at the doorsteps of people during the lockdown in the wake of coronavirus scare. (IANS Photo)
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New Delhi, April 15 (PTI) Fresh guidelines were issued by the government on Wednesday for enforcing the second phase of the coronavirus lockdown, with the Union home ministry barring all kinds of public transpo
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Spitting in public spaces shall be a punishable offence with fine as per the new lockdown guideline issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.