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Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon on Sunday wrote to Chief Minister Kamal Nath saying that the voting during a trust vote on Monday should be taken up only through raising of hands and not by any other method. Notably, in his letter to the CM ordering a trust vote on […]

A pre-emptive lockdown and sweeping restrictions on travel and public places enforced without political considerations may be India’s only fighting chance against the deadly coronavirus disease, experts said on Sunday, calling for immediate shutdowns to fight the disease that has claimed at least 6,000 lives worldwide. The warning came on […]

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has directed Assam state banker’s committee to remove all impediments expeditiously that has blocked money of about 8 lakh tea garden workers in their Jan-Dhan bank accounts since 2017, a finance ministry official said requesting anonymity. “In fact, FM had judiciously and rightly pulled the […]

A case was registered on Sunday against the father of a woman who tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) for concealing his daughter’s illness and misleading the health department officials who had gone to his house to get her admitted to the isolation ward in SN Medical College and Hospital. Agra […]

With the number of coronavirus cases on the rise in the country, the government has warned the public against the spread of rumours and misinformation over the virus, its spread and the preventive measures. One such piece of misinformation recently spread through social media under the name of the United Nations Children’s Fund […]

Visitors to lane number four in north-east Delhi’s Kabir Nagar are now welcomed by a seven-foot high sturdy iron gate. Residents said they raised funds and installed the gate in the aftermath of the communal violence in February-end that killed 53 people and left over 500 injured in north-east Delhi. Right across the road, […]

India’s efforts to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) have received a boost as the country’s apex virology laboratory, the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV) in Pune, has managed to isolate the strains of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes the infection. The virus strains have been […]

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on early Monday said that the fourth batch of 53 Indians has arrived in India from Tehran and Shiraz in Iran. Out of the 53 Indians, 52 are students and one is a teacher. With this, a total of 389 Indians have returned to India from Iran. […]

Pakistan has said it will participate in a video conference of Saarc countries as it acknowledged the need for “coordinated efforts at global and regional level”, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested the bloc could work together to counter the threat of coronavirus. The Prime Minister had reached out […]

Railways minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said the transporter “is taking unprecedented precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection”. “Railways is taking unprecedented precautions to prevent the spread of Novel #Coronavirus infection. The railway stations and trains are being sanitised to ensure utmost hygiene, making travel safe for passengers,” […]

A teenage girl was sexually assaulted by her father who was out on bail after spending years in prison for allegedly raping his other daughter and impregnating her, the Meghalaya Police said on Friday. The incident happened near Dalu in the state’s West Garo Hills district, officials said. The 45-year-old […]

Authorities at Delhi’s Tihar Jail are screening inmates for coronavirus and have set up an isolation ward inside the prison, news agency ANI reported on Saturday. “All inmates have been checked and not displayed symptoms. New inmates are being screened and will be kept in different wards for three days,” […]