Kolkata, Mar 24: Police arrested 255 people in Kolkata on Monday evening for violating the restrictions imposed in the metropolis in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, officials said. The arrests were made after 5 pm when the lockdown came into effect, they said, adding that those held will be prosecuted under sections dealing with disobedience…

No member of the opposition Congress was present in the House Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, whose return to power in the state was facilitated by resignation of his predecessor Kamal Nath from the office last week, on Tuesday proved his majority in the house by winning the trust vote. The Congress Legislature…

The country will go into a nationwide lock-down from Wednesday midnight to fight the spread of Covid-19, allowing only essential services to work. Here is a list of what is Open/Closed. All central government offices will remain closed – except those related to defence, paramilitary, treasury, public utilities like petroleum, CNG and PNG, disaster management,…

Thousands of NRIs have been pouring into Punjab in the last few weeks, with several of them dodging home quarantine, or even running away from authorities looking to track them down. This has forced the government to form around 200 teams in the state’s Doaba region, which has a large NRI population, to track down…

Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympics have been officially postponed until 2021. The International Olympic Committee along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and local organizers have decided that the Tokyo Games cannot go ahead in an extraordinary move, unprecedented in peacetime, as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic. “I proposed to postpone for about a year and…

Coronavirus – In a big development in the view of coronavirus outbreak, Modi government has given a major relief to the common man, traders, MSMEs, big corporates and others too. Addressing a press conference, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, MoS Finance Anurag Thakur with officials made many key announcements to give relief in the troubled…

Amid coronavirus scare and lockdown announced in several states globally, the news of a man hailing from Southwest China, died and was reported tested forHantavirus , has created a panic all over the world. As per the reports, the man from Yunnan Province in Southwest China was on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a…

If Indians can do just one thing to help the country reduce the overall number of novel coronavirus cases by up to 62 per cent, that one thing would be: SOCIAL DISTANCING. The World Health Organisation has repeatedly stressed upon the importance of social distancing and experts after experts have appealed to people to strictly adopt…

Tripura has identified 11 high-risk contacts who came in touch with a girl from Manipur who has tested positive with COVID-19. The girl returned from UK to Delhi, and journeyed back home to Manipur via MBB Airport in Tripura on March 21. Speaking to Indianexpress.com , an official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI),…

Washington: Over 10,000 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in a single day in the US, raising the number of COVID-19 patients to 43,734, as President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent hoarding of vital medical supplies and personal protective equipment. The US also for the first time registered over 130 deaths in a day…

New York: If you are in awe with Narcos and their dazzling yet dangerous escapades like cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, love his hippos too as those animals may help counteract a legacy of extinction, say researchers. When Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to his private zoo in Colombia were…

Summer is fast-approaching most parts of the world. However, it coincides with one of the biggest pandemics our societies have witnessed: the novel coronavirus COVID-19. As of figures from today, more than 380,000 cases have been registered worldwide. Additionally, over 16,500 have died. The global tally of the recovered patients so far stands at 100,000….