Mumbai: Coronavirus, which originated in the Hubei province of China, has now spread to nearly 200 countries and has affected more than a million people worldwide. At least 75 thousand people around the world have died. But it seems, the xenophobic people of the world have decided that their perso...

The number of coronavirus cases in the Union Territory of J&K has jumped from four to 108 infected, with two confirmed cases and one death so far, since March 21. People under home quarantine, in self-isolation and hospitals have increased in the days from a few hundred to over 33,500, as per o...

Union Cabinet approved Ordinance amending the salary, allowances and pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954. An ordinance to amend a law to reduce the salaries of members of parliament by 30 per cent for one year "to meet the exigencies arising out of COVID-19 pandemic" was promulgate...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the authorities to take appropriate steps in coordination with state governments to prevent hoarding and black marketing of commodities during the 21-day lockdown in the country to contain the spread of coronavirus, the ministry said on Tuesday....

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday (April 7) night approved the Ordinance amending the Salary, Allowances & Pension of MP Act, 1954 reducing allowances and pension by 30 percent w.e.f. 1st April 2020 for a year. Each MP will also now forfeit Rs 27,000 per month from out of Constitu...

Members of Parliament will now also have to forfeit a total of Rs 27,000 per month from their constituency allowance and office allowance, according to government orders....

'Saptapadi', the proposed mass marriage in the temples coming under the purview of the Muzrai Department scheduled to be held on April 26, has been postponed, Minister for Muzrai Kota Srinivas Poojary said. The government had decided to conduct the mass marriage in more than 100 A Grade temples in ...

Agriculture Minister B C Patil on Tuesday instructed the deputy commissioner to start online trading for the benefit of grape growers. Chairing a review meeting of his department with the officials here, the Agriculture minister said, 'I have received complaints from the grape growers that they are...

A woman in Surat city of Gujarat gave birth to a baby in a 108 Ambulance on Tuesday. It happened when the EMT-Paramedics staff, who picked the woman from her house, was going towards the hospital. However, on the way, the condition of the woman worsened as she experienced acute pregnancy pain. Actin...

In the three months since China first came across a new coronavirus, the world has been plunged into turmoil. A pandemic has been declared, schools and shops from New York to New Delhi shuttered, half the global population is confined in some form, while governments have scrambled to announce massiv...

People confined to their homes due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown will be able to watch supermoon from moonrise on Tuesday, 7 April to moonset on Wednesday morning. People confined to their homes due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown will be able to watch supermoon from moonrise on Tuesd...

Hundreds of thousands of cash-starved small businesses in India have either deferred or cut their workers' wages this month, say industrialists and union leaders, amid a 21-day nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic....

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday neared the 5,000 mark with India reporting 508 new cases and 13 deaths in 24 hours while many states advocated for a gradual approach to lifting the 21-day lockdown which ends on 14 April.On Tuesday, several states also announced plans to ramp up ...

Heavy rain lashed Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada district and parts of Udupi district on Tuesday providing much-needed relief to the people from the sultry heat. Belthangady, Guruvayanakere, Madantyaru, Venoor, Naravi and surrounding areas received rain coupled with lightning and thunder. R...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is down with Covid-19 and admitted to hospital. Meanwhile, Pakistan's leading news channel "Dawn" telecast news of his death. In its report, "Dawn" attributed the information to "BBC Breaking News". ...

The department of primary and secondary education is planning to launch a YouTube channel, to keep children engaged during the vacation, especially the present lockdown. The idea is to address the boredom of children. The public are invited to upload creative and child-friendly content on the chann...

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (April 7) refused to answer a question on the status of Tablighi Jamaat returnees after attending Delhi's Nizamuddin Markaz. Mamata said "please don’t ask me any controversial questions, we are not here for communal activit...

The Centre's decision to suspend funds for Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) for the next two financial years is likely to slow down development works planned by the Lok Sabha members in their respective constituencies. While MPs from the ruling BJP believed they could ch...

Key Highlights From renegotiating rental deals to closing down non-performing stores, cash conservation is top priority for footwear retailersMiddle and senior management of Liberty Shoes take pay cuts up to 50 per centBata to postpone incrementsBata is donating washable footwear to hospitals, also ...

After a 30% salary cut and no access to the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund for two years, Members of Parliament will now forfeit ₹27,000 per month from their constituency allowance and office allowance as well. This is the first time in the recent history of Pa...

Bengaluru, Apr 07: And the wait is over. Sky watchers were being treated to one of the biggest and brightest full moons of the year on Tuesday night. People confined to their homes due to the coronavirus-triggered lockdown spotted watching Supermoon (aka the 'super pink moon'). As we all...

In a strong show of support, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa stood behind the minorities in the state and said no one should target the Muslim community over the coronavirus crisis and the Tablighi Jamaat. He said those communalising the issue will be dealt with strictly. BS Yediyurappa wa...

On Tuesday BJP leader Maneka Gandhi said that coronavirus isn't spread by cats and they cannot get infected by the virus, which has affected hundreds and thousands of people around the world. The minister and that they are completely safe to be around. She said this from an animal activist's point ...

Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa is cautious-yet-optimistic on the COVID-19 challenge the state faces. He tells DH's Akram Mohammed and Bharath Joshi what the way forward looks like. Excerpts: Is the COVID-19 situation stabilising or worsening? I'm not in a position to find solace in the fact tha...

All educational institutions should remain closed for another four weeks and the ban on religious gatherings should also be extended for a similar period, a Group of Ministers proposed today. Sources said these could be an indication that the government, which is expected to lift the countrywide loc...

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday (April 7, 2020) by 10:55 PM IST has infected over 13.8 lakh people globally with taking close to 80,000 lives. As per the live Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases tracking data by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins Unive...

Super Pink Moon, this year's second, lit up the night skies, making it a spectacular sight to witness for all of us in lockdown. This Super Pink Moon was also one of the brightest and the biggest full moons of 2020. What made it the biggest and the brightest? Well, this is because this Super Pink Mo...

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. is expected to launch the BS6-compliant Scorpio in India over the coming months. In the latest update, the key details of the SUV have been revealed online. However, the pricing and availability details of the car are not known at the moment. Here's our roundup....

New Delhi: The Bhusawal Division of Indian Railways has designed a contactless automatic thermal measuring system for the thermal screening of suspected coronavirus COVID-19 cases. The system has also been tested by the department. "The railways have devised such technology in view of the incr...

Drunken mistakes and messages are common phenomena. When it's by a public figure, sometimes it can be hilarious. Still, public figures and famous personalities don't get the liberty to make these mistakes, especially when they address the Prime Minister of India. It's hard to recover from something...

The Chandigarh administration on Tuesday made it mandatory for people to wear masks in public places to check the spread of the novel coronavirus....

Coronavirus hotspots across the nation were identified and put under a cluster containment plan by the state governments on Tuesday as the national tally of the deadly diseases crossed the 4,700-mark. As per the Union health ministry data, the death toll in the country due to novel coronavirus rose ...

Bengaluru: A 33-year-old construction worker died on her way to home Raichur from Bengaluru on Sunday. The woman, identified as Gangamma, allegedly died of hunger when she was sent being back home by her employer in Bengaluru. On Tuesday, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said the death of the woman ...

The report of the fourth case of novel coronavirus being detected in Jharkhand on Monday has put the state authorities on high alert. The infected 58-year-old woman, who is suffering from kidney ailments, is also from Ranchi's Hindpiri locality, where the state's first novel coronavirus case, a 22-...

After a 30% salary cut and the freezing of access to the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) fund for two years, the MPs of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will now have to also forfeit a total of ₹27,000 per month from their constituency allowance and office allowance. This is...

Quibi, the mobile-first streaming service now available in India for Rs. 669 per month after a 90-day free trial period. After the ongoing buzz, the short-form streaming service, Quibi, has arrived in India that offers original content of 10 minutes or less to smartphone users amid coronavirus lock...

BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje on Monday claimed on Twitter that people in Belagavi who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat meeting spat on the hospital staff and misbehaved with them. She further claimed that 70 people from Belagavi had attended the meet in Delhi, and that eight of them tested positive....

Sagar Kulkarni, The ongoing festive season has put the government on high alert as studies indicate that a single COVID-19 positive person can infect 406 people over a period of a month in the absence of preventive measures such as social distancing and lockdown. The Centre has reached out to commu...

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES FIFA logo FIFA has recommended that all player contracts be extended until the soccer season is able to finish. The world governing body also said it will allow upcoming transfer windows to be moved to new dates because of the turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic...

New Delhi As many as 26,476 relief and shelter camps across the country are housing 1.03 million migrant workers and other needy people during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to a status report submitted by the central government before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Of the 26,476 camps, 22,567 are...

With 150 new cases, the Covid-19 tally in Maharashtra on Tuesday crossed the 1,000-mark to reach 1,018, the highest for any state. This was the steepest one-day rise in the number of cases in Maharashtra and came on a day when Maharashtra recorded 12 Covid-19 related deaths and took the state's de...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday laid out a five-point blueprint to contain the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), declaring that testing will be ramped up and the scope of treatment widened - an indication that the Capital was bracing for the possible ballooning of the pathogen that ha...

The Centre on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the issue arising out of blockade of national highway between Kerala and Karnataka stood resolved with both the states agreeing to movement of patients for medical treatment at the inter-state border at Talapady. 'The two states have agreed to a pro...

Keeping in mind the Ugadi festive season, the Karnataka government has set up village-level task forces comprising members of its gram panchayats and local govt workers to lead and oversee the efforts against the coronavirus pandemic."Village-level efforts are needed to communicate to the rural...

Kalyan Ray, The nationwide lockdown has helped cut down the spread of COVID-19 into the community, as the number of infected patients hasn't risen exponentially so far unlike the USA or Europe, but the next three days are crucial, medical researchers said on Tuesday. "You have to wait for thr...

In wake of the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, religious leaders have appealed to masses to maintain social distancing and stay indoors. Congregations have been banned by the government and strict legal action would be initiated against anyone who breaks the law, the Min...

The toddler, son of a migrant labourer-couple having no recent travel history, died in the evening at a government hospital in Jamnagar, said an official release. A 14-month-old baby boy, who had tested positive for coronavirus in Gujarat's Jamnagar district on Sunday, 5 April, died of multipl...

Mumbai: With 150 new cases of coronavirus, the total number of infected persons in Maharashtra climbed to 1,018, the state health department said on Tuesday. As many as 12 people lost their lives due to the infection in the today, taking the death toll in the state to 64. Of new cases detected today...