New Delhi After the ICMR reported a rise of 19 coronavirus cases between 6 pm on Sunday and 10 am on Monday taking the total cases to 415 and deaths to seven, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to exhort people to take the lockdown seriously. The PM inRead More

New Delhi India’s coronavirus deaths rose to 433 on Monday, with 402 active infections, the union health ministry said in its latest update. “The junta curfew was successful. The nation participated with high enthusiasm. Everybody participated in thanking our essential services workforce for working relentlessly,” the health ministry said inRead More

New Delhi, March 22 Amid tremendous success of the ongoing people’s curfew to battle an evolving COVID-19 pandemic in India, the government on Sunday ordered the lockdown of 75 districts where positive cases of the deadly virus have so far been confirmed.The decision was taken at a high level reviewRead More

New Delhi With ringing of bells, beating of metal plates and clapping, people across the country on Sunday evening expressed appreciation for medical and other staff who are on the frontline of the battle against the coronavirus.The clanging sounds rang in the air as the clock struck five and peopleRead More

New Delhi Twenty-two rebel Congress MLAs, whose resignations from the Madhya Pradesh Assembly had led to the fall of the Kamal Nath government, joined the BJP on Saturday, national general secretary of the party Kailash Vijayvargiya said. These leaders, along with Jyotiraditya Scindia, met BJP president JP Nadda, who welcomedRead More

New Delhi The country will be observing an unprecedented shutdown on Sunday following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal for a ‘Janata Curfew’, where people have been urged to voluntarily stay indoors to check the spread of coronavirus. Public transport will be suspended or curtailed, and all markets and shops exceptRead More

Lucknow The Lucknow Administration closed down a large part of the trans-Gomti area in the Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, hours after it was learnt that Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor was staying here. Kapoor tested positive for coronavirus on Friday. After she tested positive, former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and herRead More

New Delhi Justice has finally been done and women will definitely feel safer now, Nirbhaya’s mother Asha Devi said after the four men convicted of gang-rape and murder of her daughter were hanged at Tihar Jail on Friday. Talking to reporters at her home in Dwarka, she said justice wasRead More

New Delhi All Indian airlines will report significant losses in the first quarter of this year and may initially ground around 150 planes as the shock from the coronavirus pandemic will be “far deeper and much longer”, according to a report. Aviation advisory firm CAPA India on Wednesday said evenRead More

New Delhi The Indian Railways on Wednesday cancelled 64 more trains as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, taking the total number of trains cancelled to 149. The Northern Railways cancelled 18 trains on Wednesday, a day after it cancelled five trains on Tuesday amid the Covid-19Read More