New Delhi, May 30 The Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday announced that the Nationwide lockdown in Covid-19 containment zones has been extended till June 30.In Manipur the containment areas are the quarantine centres from where inmates have tested positive for the virus, one building at Dewlahland where a returnee spent some days with the family members before testing positive for the virus,  one college at Chandel, Family Welfare Training Centre etc.The State Government is likely to issue ..

New Delhi, May 30 Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote an open letter to the citizens of the country on Saturday, the day he completes one year of the second term in office. PM Modi listed out some of the key achievements of his Government like the abrogation of Article 370, settlement of the Ram Temple issue, criminalisation of Triple Talaq and the amendment to the Citizenship Act.Asserting that when he was elected for the second term in 2019, he had shown the dream to every citizen of taking India ..

New Delhi, May 29As the month of May draws to a close, India is looking to enter phase five of its Nationwide lockdown imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The country first imposed restrictions on movement of people and sale of non-essential items on..

NEW DELHI, May 29 The total number of COVID-19 cases in Assam surged to 880 after 24 new cases were reported on Friday, Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Of the total cases, currently, 770 affected persons are receiving treatment in the State, whi..

New Delhi, May 29 India on Friday surpassed the Covid-19 death toll of China, where the outbreak was first reported in December last year. India recorded 175 deaths from coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours (between Thursday and Friday).According to U..

NEW DELHI, May 28The Supreme Court on Thursday said that stranded migrant workers will not be charged for travel either by train or buses and directed the States to bear the expenses. The State Government will also provide them food and water at stations and bus terminals, while the Railways will ensure meals for all during the journey.India’s total count of cases has risen to 1,58,333 after 6,566 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. ..

NEW DELHI, May 27 IndiGo on Tuesday said its crew has been grounded for 14 days after a passenger on Chennai-Coimbatore flight tested positive for coronavirus. The airline said passengers on the flight, which operated on Monday, have been notified."We received confirmation from the Coimbatore airport doctor that a passenger who travelled on 6E 381 from Chennai to Coimbatore on 25th May evening, has tested positive for Covid-19," said the airline in a statement. He is currently quarantined at ..

New Delhi, May 24The Ministry of Health and Family Affairs Welfare on Sunday issued a comprehensive list of guidelines for passengers undertaking domestic travel via flights, trains or through inter-State bus services amid Covid-19 lockdown. This comes in the wake of resumption of domestic air services from Monday and with 100 pair of trains resuming service on June 1. The release stated that various State governments will be able to “develop their own quarantine and isolation protocols as per ..

NEW DELHI, May 22 The COVID-19 pandemic in India grew by the highest number yet on Friday when as many as 6,088 cases were detected across the country. The total number of coronavirus patients in India increased to 118,447. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi registered record number of COVID-19 cases on Thursday.The death toll from the virus touched 3,583. As many as 150 coronavirus patients succumbed to death in last 24 hours. Maharashtra confirmed 64 deaths on Thursday — one of the highest ..

ET Now DigitalNew Delhi, May 21: Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri addressing a press conference on Thursday (May 21) said that the Government has regulated airfares for the next three months as there is huge pent up demand because of the lockdown and airlines will be running one-third of the approved summer schedule flights on the metro-metro routes.On Wednesday the Civil Aviation Ministry had announced that domestic flights will resume in a calibrated manner from May 25. Quoting ..

NEW DELHI, May 19  The number of coronavirus cases in India crossed the 1 lakh mark on Tuesday, nearly four months after the country reported its first Covid-19 infection. However, compared to some of the severely-affected Nations, India's Covid-19 growth rate has been much slower.It took 64 days for the number of coronavirus cases to rise from 100 to 100,000 in India, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Family Welfare and Health and worldometer.info.The data shows that India, which ..

NEW DELHI, May 17 As India entered the 54th day of coronavirus-induced lockdown, the Centre has extended it by two more weeks until May 31 with several relaxations. Earlier in the day, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu joined Punjab in extending the lockdown. Karnataka, on the other hand, has extended it only for two more days.The new guidelines have allowed salons, barbershops, shopping complexes and markets to open from May 18. However, domestic flights, schools, colleges and hotels will continue to remain ..

Pune, May 16It might still be early days, but several States seems to be experiencing a second wave of novel Coronavirus outbreak. States like Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa had either stopped reporting new cases, or were reporting very few. In the last couple of days, however, there has been a noticeable rise in these States.For over a month, Goa did not have a single case. All the seven people, found infected in the last week of March, had recovered and gone back home. In the last two days, ..

New Delhi, May 14Coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday.Michael Ryan, Director WHO Health Emergencies Program, said that the coronavirus may b..

NEW DELHI, May 13 : Total coronavirus cases in India has crossed the 74,000-mark while COVID 19 death toll is over 2400 in the country. As per the data shared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of COVID-19 cases in India now ar..

New Delhi, May 12 Addressing the Nation five days before the third phase of the Nationwide lockdown is slated to be lifted on May 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said there will be new rules and the fourth phase of the lockdown will be in a new form. “Scientists say that the novel coronavirus will be a part of our lives for a very long time. But we can’t let our lives remain confined around it. We will wear masks and maintain social distancing but we will not let it (the virus) ..

NEW DELHI, May 11 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a fresh round of consultation with Chief Ministers on ways to strengthen the COVID-19 containment strategy and stepping up of economic activities in a calibrated manner as the 54-day Nationw..

NEW DELHI, May 9The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 Government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday.The Minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the Northeastern States along with the measures taken for its containment and management, also stressed on the need to take concrete action to check the use of non-smoking tobacco and prohibiting ..

NEW DELHI, May 9The HRD Minister has re-cently updated that 3000 schools have been turned into evaluation centres for CBSE Board Exams 2020 and the process will be beginning tomorrow that is on May 10, 2020. The results would thus be available soon on the..

Pune, May 8Sixteen migrant workers were mowed down by an empty freight train in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district in the early hours of Friday. While 14 of them died on the spot, two of them later succumbed to injuries.The workers, who were walking ..

NEW DELHI, May 7At least 11 persons are dead and hundreds sick after gas leaked from the LG Polymers plant at Gopalapatnam on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam. Workers were preparing for the reopening of the plant today when gas started leaking in the early..

NEW DELHI, May 7 The All India Youth Federation (AIYF) has strongly condemned the Government's decision to impose excise duty hike in price of petrol by Rs 10 and diesel by Rs 13 by, said a press release issued by AIYF...

New Delhi, May 6 Assam has reported the first instance of African Swine Fever (ASF) in the country in Assam where the disease has killed around 2,900 pigs across 306 villages of the State.Assam’s Animal Husbandry Minister Atul Bora has said, despite..

NEW DELHI, May 5 With 3,900 new cases of coronavirus infection and 195 deaths, India on Tuesday registered the highest single-day jump in numbers of COVID-19 cases as well as fatalities in the past 24 hours. ''With 3,900 COVID-19 cases and 195 deaths in the last 24 hours, the country has recorded the largest single-day spike till now in both categories,'' the Health Ministry said. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India has reached 46,433, including 1,568 deaths, according to the ..

NEW DELHI, May 4 : Confirmed COVID-19 cases in India stand at 42,533. The death toll from the outbreak in India is at 1,373. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi have reported the highest number of cases.Globally, there have been over 35.1 lakh confirmed cases ..

NEW DELHI, May 3 : The tally of confirmed coronavirus cases in India is approaching 40,000, with a record 2,644 new cases detected in the last 24 hours. The death toll from Covid-19 has gone up to to 1,301 after 83 coronavirus-linked deaths were reported ..

Amaravati, May 3: Dr. Panchagunula Jayaprakash, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has designed a face shield embedded with 3D printing technology. ..

NEW DELHI, May 2 : Assam : Assam currently has zero Red Zone districts, three Orange Zone districts and 30 Green Zone districtsArunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh currently has zero Red Zone districts, zero Orange Zone districts and 25 Green Zone distri..

New Delhi, May 2An absolutely fantastic video of a little girl singing a song by Neil Young during a function is doing the rounds of the internet. S Horyaowon Pheirei is from Kachai village in Manipur's Ukhrul district and her rendition of Neil Young's song has gone viral on the internet.Pheirei's video was shared on Facebook by a page called OK North East on April 30. The clip shows Pheirei, dressed in a shirt and skirt, playing the guitar on stage while performing her rendition of Heart of Gold. ..

NEW DELHI, Apr 30 Amid the coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown, the Centre has urged its Ministries to use the term physical distancing instead of social distancing, according to sources on Wednesday. The sources said that the call was made as social distancing conveys a message of maintaining distance from society whereas the aim of social distancing is to keep a distance from each other. The decision was taken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to maintain a distance of 2 yards, added the sources.The ..

New Delhi, Apr 29The total number of novel coronavirus cases climbed to 31,787 on Wednesday while Covid-19 deaths in India crossed the 1,000-mark.According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India recorded 71 deaths in the last 24 hours, ..

New Delhi, Apr 28The Indian Journalists Union has welcomed the decision of the Governments of Assam and Odisha to provide life insurance coverage to journalists and Government of Uttar Pradesh for its directive against termination of service or salary cut..

NEW DELHI, Apr 28: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed contribution of Defence Public Sector Undertaking Units (DPSUs) and Ordinance Factory Board (OFB) to fight COVID-19 and their operational plans through video conference in New Delhi today...

NEW DELHI, Apr 27As India entered the final week of the 40-day lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, the total cases in the country reached 27892, including 6184 cured/discharged/migrated and 872 deaths. In past 24 hours, 1,396 new cases of coronavi..

New Delhi, Apr 26Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Chief Ministers via video conference on Monday morning on the way ahead in the fight against the novel coronavirus, amid indications that the discussions could also focus on a graded exit from the ongoing lockdown.This will be the third video conference of the Prime Minister with the Chief Ministers after the spread of the Covid-19 in the country.Sources in the Government indicated that besides discussing the way forward in dealing with ..