New Delhi The coronavirus death toll in the National Capital has climbed to 115, while the highest single-day spike was reported with 472 fresh cases that took the total number of cases in Delhi beyond the 8,000-mark, health authorities said on Thursday. The previous highest spike in fresh cases —Read More

New Delhi The Congress, on Thursday, said the government’s economic package had, so far, fallen way short of what Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised the nation and dubbed it as a “jumla package”. A senior spokesperson of the party, Anand Sharma, said the country believed that Prime Minister NarendraRead More

New Delhi In a big push to revive the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a Rs 20 lakh crore package, which combined the government’s recent announcements on supporting key sectors as also measures rolled out by the Reserve Bank of India. In a televised address to theRead More

New Delhi Fully-armed troops of Indian and Chinese armies are at present locked in a tense stand-off in Eastern Ladakh, indicating that the clash on the night intervening May 5 and 6 between the two sides is still simmering. Troops of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China are holdingRead More

New Delhi India reported 4,213 coronavirus cases in a span of 24 hours, the health ministry said—a development that makes it the highest single-day rise of infection that took the country’s COVID-19 tally to 67,152. Health ministry officials said in their evening update that India reported 98 more deaths, takingRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday indicated that the focus in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak should be to reduce transmission rate and increase public activity gradually while adhering to guidelines. Interacting with chief ministers via video conference, he said suggestions given by them for roadmap onRead More

New DelhI The time has come for India to adopt a “whole-of-government approach” in decisively confronting the “strategic uncertainties” looming on its horizon as well as non-traditional threats like pandemics, Army Chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane has said, strongly pitching for broadening the country’s national security doctrine. Talking about complexRead More

New Delhi The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,109 and the number of cases climbed to 62,939 in the country on Sunday, registering an increase of 128 deaths and 3,277 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 casesRead More

New Delhi The Indian Navy, on Friday, commenced a massive operation to evacuate Indians, stranded on the Maldives, after the stay on all domestic and international flights was announced in the country to curb the spread of COVOD-19. Named operation ‘Samundra Setu’ — meaning a bridge across the seas —twoRead More

New Delhi As many as 216 districts in the country have not reported any COVID-19 cases till now, 42 districts have not registered any infections in the last 28 days and 29 districts have not recorded any case in the last 21 days, the Union health ministry said on Friday.Read More