More than 150 seafarers, who had disembarked off various ships at the Mumbai port reached Goa on Friday, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Friday. The 154 seafarers are currently in the process of being screened and quarantined in government-appointed facilities....
With the number of containment zones coming down in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Budh Nagar in Noida, the state government has relaxed the standards related to these zones. With this, the areas where infected patients are found will not be sealed for that long. The district administration has redefined the entire containment zone....
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has made a provision under which the MLA Local Area Development (MLALAD) funds can be used to build cow shelters. Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Manoj Kumar Singh, said that earlier MLALAD funds were not permitted in repair or construction of cow shelters but now Legislators ...
Amid the nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, the Indian Railways on Friday said that it has ferried more than 11.5 lakh stranded people since May 1 in over 999 Shramik Special trains. Railway and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday took to Twitter and wrote, "Under the leadership of Prime Minister Nar...
The lone Keralite in the Union Cabinet V. Muraleedharan on Friday hit back on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and held him responsible for the slow evacuation of the Kerala diaspora from the Middle East. Muraleedharan is the Union Minister of State for External Affairs and presently a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra and was res...
The number of global coronavirus cases has increased to over 4.4 million, while the death toll has surpassed 302,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
With 3,967 new cases and 100 new deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the COVID-19 tally in India reached 81970, the Union Health Ministry stated on Friday. And two states, Goa and Manipur, which were declared COVID-19 free, have reported fresh corona positive cases....
Rick Bright, a US government whistleblower recently fired by the Trump administration, delivered a chilling testimony in the Congress on Thursday about the country hurtling into the "darkest winter in modern history" unless there is strong leadership and a master plan to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic -- both of which he said were a...
Maharashtra on Thursday notched a new high of 1,602 Covid-19 cases and the death toll crossed 1,000, while Mumbai recorded a new high of 991 cases, state health officials said here....
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday inaugurated COBAS 6800 testing machine at the National Centre for Disease Control. This is the first such machine procured by the government for testing for Covid-19 cases....
