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Make your own mask at home. It’s basic
Everyone should to wear a mask when they step out of home as a protection against coronavirus. Whatever you do,…
Lockdown no bar: Mumbai boy ties knot with Delhi girl online
Preet Singh and Neet Kaur met online a year ago and started dating soon after. MUMBAI: For 29-year-old Mumbai-based merchant…
Tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo tests positive for coronavirus
Nadia, a 4-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo, has tested positive for coronavirus disease (File p...Read MoreA tiger…
Coronavirus live updates: 4,067 cases in India & 109 deaths, according to Health ministry information
Virus-hit Carnival cruise ship docks in Australia as country's death toll hits 39The Ruby Princess cruise liner
How to restart the economy after the lockdown: Here’s how India can meet perhaps the greatest challenge of o
Economically speaking, India is faced today with perhaps its greatest emergency since Independence. The global financial crisis in 2008-09 was…
28,000 temporary shelters, 19,500 food camps for migrant workers functional across states: MHA
Migrant workers rest inside the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi which has been converted into a makeshift shelt...Read MoreNEW DELHI:…
Coronavirus: Kerala tops recovery-rate table
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has reported the country’s highest Covid-19 recovery rate of 84% on the basis of how the first 25…
Highest single-day casualty of 27 takes India’s corona toll to 124
Forensic officials arrive at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 death toll crossed the 100-mark and reached…
UK PM Boris Johnson in medical facility for preventive Covid-19 tests: Office
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital on Sunday for tests, his office said, 10 days after…
Small shifts, automated production to restart manufacturing?
File image used for representationNEW DELHI: A discussion has started within a section of the government over multiple ways to…
Corona testing shifts into top gear
NEW DELHI: In a massive ramp up of testing for Covid-19, the government plans to double every three days the…
Coronavirus | U.K. PM Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for tests
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited a laboratory at the Public Health England National Infection Service in Colindale, London. |…
Shooting the messenger
While the economic cost of the pandemic has been discussed widely, not as much attention has been paid to the…
Coronavirus | Rapid antibody testing for hotspots first, says ICMR
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said the rapid antibody based blood test for COVID-19 will be deployed by…
Lots of females from Tamil Nadu attended Tablighi meet
Members who attended the Delhi event being taken to a quarantine facility in Ahmedabad on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI…
In the time of the pandemic, classes go online and on air
The long lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools, colleges and other educational institutions and ushered in the citywide…
Coronavirus | PM lights lamp as nation joins hands against virus
People across the country switched off lights in their houses and lit lamps at their doors and balconies in solidarity…
Coronavirus | Some schools monitor diya lighting by students
Parents cried foul on Sunday, as several schools monitored whether their students lit diyas at 9 p.m. as urged by…
Beating around bush
Respected Madam/ Sir,First of all whether everybody is ok in the office or no? Please convey all the sentiments from…
Trump itching to reopen economy as advisors warn of ‘Pearl Harbor moment’
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, on April 4, 2020, i...Read MoreWASHINGTON:…
#9pm9minutes: When India lit up during coronavirus lockdown
NEW DELHI: Citizens across the country lit diyas, candles and flashed their mobile and torch lights on Sunday following Prime…
Next few days very important, formulate plan to avoid community transmission: Cabinet secretary to states
NEW DELHI/JAMMU: Union Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Sunday asked all states and Union Territories to formulate a containment plan…
Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 5, 2020, 20:30 ISTNEW DELHI: The rate of doubling of COVID-19 cases in India is at…
Trump phones Modi seeking anti-malaria drug for Covid-19 treatment
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump phoned India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday to request release of the anti-malaria drug…
Rate of doubling of Covid-19 cases 4.1 days; without Jamaat incident it would have been 7.4: Centre
NEW DELHI: The rate of doubling of Covid-19 cases in India is 4.1 days presently but if the cases linked…
Fadnavis lands in soup over “come out on streets” call
Former Maharashtra Chief Mnister Devendra Fadnavis. File | Photo Credit: S. Sudarshan Does BJP want to make Markaj 2.0, asks…
Rate of doubling of COVID-19 cases is 4.1 days; without Jamaat event it would have been 7.4, states government
The rate of doubling of COVID-19 cases in India is 4.1 days presently but if the cases linked to the…
Centre made ‘grave error’ by not taking States into self-confidence on lockdown, says Veerappa Moily
The Centre made a “grave mistake” by announcing the lockdown without taking the States into confidence and it should now…
Decision on reopening schools, colleges on April 14 after evaluating COVID-19 situation, states Pokhriyal
Safety of students and teachers is of utmost importance to the government and his ministry, says Pokhriyal The government will…
Eight Malaysian nationals who went to Tablighi Jamaat event sent to quarantine from IGI Airport
Firefighters spray disinfectants at a locality near the Nizamuddin Markaz, the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in south Delhi. | Photo Credit:…
Decision on reopening schools, colleges on April 14: HRD minister
NEW DELHI: The educational institutions will be re-opened only after a review of coronavirus situation in the country when the…
Have restricted my movement to break COVID-19 chain: CRPF DG after doc tests positive
Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) A P Maheshwari (File photo)NEW DELHI: Director General of the Central…
Royal Oppositions Bangalore strained by title pressure: Virat Kohli
NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bangalore need to rediscover the joy of cricket if they are to end their Indian Premier…
Coronavirus most current updates: CRPF DG, senior officers under home quarantine
Medical staff at a Chennai hospital. (Credits: Reuters)NEW DELHI: As per data released by the Union health ministry on Sunday…
PM tweets #9pm9minute to remind people to light up diyas tonight
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reminded people to light up lamps on Sunday night to show the country's…
COVID -19 | Testing, treatment now available for free under Ayushman Bharat Scheme
Real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based tests are recommended as diagnostic tests for COVID-19. Now, more than 50 crore Ayushman…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 12 live updates | Death toll crosses 100, number of confirmed cases touch 3500
COVID-19 death toll in India exceeded 100 on Saturday, with the country reporting 104 deaths, including three in Tamil Nadu.Over…
Why must COVID-19 clusters be recognized?
The story so far: On March 30, the Delhi Police cordoned off the area around a masjid located around 100…
Update on India’s war against COVID-19
Since early March, our war against COVID-19 has been making steady progress in India. This has involved detection, protection, prevention,…
Seclusion and psychological health: the psychological effect of lockdown
It is past noon and Mehtaj, 39, a teacher in Assam, is doing her “second round of disinfection”. Wiping her…
The catastrophes that strike Bengal in the 1940s offer a warning for today day
It is rather interesting at this moment in time to look at a period in our history from about 70…
MS Dhoni’s biggest knocks in ODIs
April 5 marks the 15th anniversary of MS Dhoni's first international century - a knock that marked his arrival as…
‘Toughest’ weeks ahead as coronavirus spreads: Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the country could be headed into its "toughest" weeks yet as the coronavirus…
Over 1,000 Tablighi Jamaat members infected, account for 30% of all India cases
NDMC workers use a fumigation machine in Delhi's Connaught Place area (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: As many as 1,023 Covid-19 positive…
Why board games are making a comeback
Ever since the lockdown began, leadership coach Aparna Jain and her family look forward to their evenings. They do their…
Daniel Pearl murder | Pakistan vows to appeal against acquittal of Omar Sheikh
Faced with strong criticism from the United States and a possible threat of India raising the case at the Financial…
Coronavirus | 42% of patients in India between 21 and 40 years
About 42% of those confirmed positive for COVID-19 in India are between the ages of 21-40 years old, the Union…
Coronavirus outbreak | Two more positive cases from Dharavi
The number of COVID-19 positive cases from Dharavi rose to four on Saturday.Also read | On Sunday, light lamps, candles…
Coronavirus | COVID-19 drives oncologists to tweak cancer treatments
The COVID-19 outbreak has posed a unique challenge for oncology experts across the country — to balance the higher risk…