India to accept quarantine to save Australia Test series
SYDNEY: India's cricket team is prepared to undergo quarantine to salvage a money-spinning Test series against Australia, a top official…
Maharashtra may extend lockdown to end of May, hints CM Uddhav Thackeray
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray. (ANI photo)MUMBAI: Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, while addressing an all-party leaders' meeting via video conference on…
Maharashtra: Train runs over migrant workers in Aurangabad, 14 dead
AURANGABAD: At least 14 migrant workers who were sleeping on the railway tracks were mowed down by a goods train…
Breaking news live updates: An Indian Air Force fighter aircraft has crashed in Punjab
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | May 08, 2020, 12:05:04 ISTStay here for real-time updates on breaking news from…
Coronavirus treatment: All you need to understand about plasma therapy that is being touted as a reliable treatment for COVID19
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Ravina Kumari | Last updated on - May 8, 2020, 11:05 ISTclose01/6Here is all you need to know…
At 28.83%, India’s recovery rate better than the majority of nations, states Health Minister
The COVID-19 cases in India are likely to peak in June-July according to data released by experts and going by…
Vista Equity Partners picks 2.32 pc stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 11,367 cr
Vista’s investment will translate into a 2.32% equity stake on a fully diluted basis, making Vista the largest investor in…
14 migrant employees run over by items train in Maharashtra
Fourteen migrant workers were sleeping on rail tracks due to exhaustion when they were run over by the goods train…
Visakhapatnam gas leak: Situation typical, individuals return to houses around factory
People seen returning to their homes which they evacuated from following rumours of a second gas leak at LG Polymers…
The long march home on the other side of Vindhyas
Thousands of migrant workers from the city, a majority of them young men in their 20s and 30s, have begun…
7 zones in Chennai represent most cases
Chennai Corporation special nodal officer J.Radhakrishnan inspecting a containment zone in Adyar on Thursday. 96 infected on one street in…
Schools may go for odd-even plan
An official at a Chandigarh school makes arrangements for social distancing on Thursday, a day before distribution of books is…
5,200 rail coaches ready as Covid care centres
Workers prepare railway coaches for their modification into isolation wards for Covid-19 patients in Prayagraj...Read MoreNEW DELHI: The Indian Railways…
Managing hotspots is key to ‘blunted peak’: AIIMS director
NEW DELHI: AIIMS director Dr Randeep Guleria said on Thursday that if the Covid-19 hotspots are managed properly, India may…
Covid-19: India cases 3k-plus 2 days in a row, Delhi at new high
File photoNEW DELHI: States across India reported over 3,000 new Covid-19 cases for the second day running as the country’s…
Covid-19: Doubling time worsens to 10.2 days in 1 week
Health workers prepare to collect samples for Covid-19 swab tests at a roadside camp in Kolkata (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: India's…
Vande Bharat Mission: 2 Air India Express flights with 363 Indians land in Kerala
NEW DELHI: The mammoth Vande Bharat Mission of flying back lakhs of Indians stranded abroad kicked off with two Air…
Harmful catastrophe: On Visakhapatnam gas leakage
The gas leak tragedy is a reminder that safety is paramount when exiting the lockdown The disastrous leak of a…
Slow, but consistent: On COVID-19 spread in India
Only more testing and isolation of infected people can slow the spread of COVID-19 With 52,469 confirmed cases and 1,771…
Vande Bharat Mission | Two batches of evacuees from Gulf arrive in Kerala
Passengers include 181 Non-Resident Keralites from Abu Dhabi, 182 from Dubai. The Vande Bharat Mission to bring stranded Non-Resident Keralites…
Coronavirus | AIIMS director says cases likely to hit peak in June-July
India registered 3,561 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total to 52,952. With 89 deaths, the…
RR Venkatapuram citizens awaken to thick blanket of fog, pungent smell
Residents wait on footpaths for help after fleeing their homes following a gas leak from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam…
Sad scenes at healthcare facilities
A little girl, about five years old, survived after treatment at a 30-bed hospital at Gopalapatnam. She looked around, perhaps…
Visakhapatnam gas leak declares 11 lives; over 350 hospitalised
Eleven people, including a six-year-old girl, died and over 350 were admitted to hospitals after styrene monomer gas leaked from…
33 million have sought US unemployment aid since virus hit
(Representative image: Reuters)WASHINGTON: Nearly 3.2 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week as the business shutdowns caused by…
Death of key ISKP leader exposes Pak ISI’s links with Lashkar, other terror outfits
NEW DELHI: The deadly connections between the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Haqqani Network and the Islamic State of Afghanistan came to the fore…
No new Covid-19 case reported from 13 states, UTs in last 24 hours: Harsh Vardhan
NEW DELHI: Thirteen states and Union Territories, including Kerala, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir, have not reported any new case…
Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: May 7, 2020, 21:18 ISTPeople queue to collect food packets in Patna.NEW DELHI: Indians are waiting in…
Hard options for Indians in Gulf as repatriation process begins
DUBAI: Tejas Jodi Lal from Kerala has been given priority over others to take the first flight back home as…
No scientific studies report styrene gas triggering deaths
A view of the LG Polymers where a gas leak occurred in the early hours of Thursday in Visakhapatnam, May…
COVID-19: Obligatory 2 week institutionalised quarantine for those going into Kerala from red zones
The State government on Thursday clarified that persons seeking to enter Kerala from red zone localities in other regions in…
IAF Mi-17 helicopter makes forced landing in Sikkim
All six personnel on board safe, says IAF A Mi-17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on a routine…
Rajnath Singh approves abolition of 9,304 posts in Armed force Engineering Service
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. File | Photo Credit: PTI This is one of the recommendations by the Lt. Gen. D.B.…
Mumbai tapes its highest spike in cases, pushing tally to 10,714.
Chennai and Ahmedabad are emerging as new hotspots for coronavirus in India, even as Maharashtra, the worst-affected State, continues to…
Covid-19 likely to peak in India in June-July: AIIMS director
NEW DELHI: As per the modeling data and the way India's Covid-19 cases are increasing, it is likely that peak…
Day 44 of coronavirus lockdown: Ground report from Indian cities
A man with a bicycle carrying Water Mayur Jugs walk past on a road, Delhi. (Credits: ANI)NEW DELHI: Amid prevalent…
Under pressure, Karnataka government to resume train services for migrant workers from Friday
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa addresses media about the ongoing Covid-19, lockdown at Vidhana Soudha...Read MoreBENGALURU: Under criticism for cancelling…
Covid-19: India looks to lure more than 1,000 US companies out of China
NEW DELHI: India is seeking to lure US businesses, including medical devices giant Abbott Laboratories, to relocate from China as…
Vizag gas leak live updates: Spread of poisonous vapours depends on wind speed, officials say
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | May 07, 2020, 17:13:41 ISTA specialised CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) team…
Back home: On return of Indian expatriates
After nearly two months, stranded Indians across the world will begin their journey home this week as aircraft and naval…
Blame game: On Donald Trump’s anti-China rhetoric over COVID-19
President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on China over the coronavirus outbreak risk further deterioration of already strained ties between the…
COVID-19 further dents Karnataka’s vulnerable financial resources
In March, when Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa presented his seventh budget and the first in the current innings, he candidly…
Fact check | Centre’s beneficiary count for COVID-19 relief is faulty
Women stand in a queue outside a bank to avail the benefits of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, during the…
Coronavirus | Anticipating an increase in number of cases, government readies train coaches
For the second consecutive day, India on May 6 recorded a three-digit rise in COVID-19 deaths though, at 126, it…
Leading Hizbul Mujahideen leader killed in Kashmir: cops
The longest surviving and wanted Hizbul Mujahideen “operational commander” Riyaz Naikoo was among three militants killed in the intensified operations…
Centre is taking arbitrary choices, state Congress Chief Ministers
At a videoconference with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday, the Chief Ministers of the party-ruled States accused the Union…
Hacker ‘sees’ security defects in Aarogya Setu
Ethical hacker Robert Baptiste on May 6 alleged that security flaws in the government’s Aarogya Setu application enabled him to…
Forces deal body blow to Hizb in terror’s choicest season
Security personnel near the site of the gunfight in which Hizb commander Naikoo was killed in Pulwama district...Read MoreNEW DELHI:…
Covid-19: India crosses 50k cases; hits brand-new peak of 3600 cases in a day
India went past two grim Covid-19 milestones on Wednesday – crossing the 50,000 mark overall and breaching the 3,000-figure in…
Repurposed drugs offer hope in India’s Covid fight
NEW DELHI: Lopinavir/ritonavir — a fixed-dose combination of drugs used for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS — has been approved…