Rs 12,000 to Rs 1 lakh: Just how much cash Indians will require to pay to fly back house
In the first week (May 7-13), Air India will operate 64 flights to 12 countries which is expected to bring…
Can kids spread the virus?
STAY SAFECan kids spread the virus?As most of the world continues to socially distance, Switzerland last week talked about easing…
13 countries, 64 flights, 3 Navy warships: How govt plans to bring back over 14,000 stranded Indians in phase 1
NEW DELHI: India has embarked on a massive operation involving naval ships and aircraft in a phased manner to bring…
Coronavirus survivors want answers, and China is silencing them
BEIJING: The text messages to the Chinese activist streamed in from ordinary Wuhan residents, making the same extraordinary request: Help…
There may never ever be a Covid-19 vaccine: WHO coronavirus professional
Scientists are working on a potential vaccine for COVID-19, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Reuters Photo)LONDON: While…
A lot of flights to revive Indians headed to Gulf, South-East Asia
File photo used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.K. and U.S. will get a flight each during the…
Comment | What Rahul Gandhi’s public consultations with experts say about leadership
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s publicised conversations with experts Raghuram Rajan last week and Abhijit Banerjee on Tuesday on the national…
NEET on July 26, IIT-JEE Mains on July 18-23
The Union HRD Ministry on Tuesday has announced the dates for entrance examinations for medical colleges and Indian Institute of…
Post Handwara, Shiv Sena calls for another surgical strike
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday pitched for a surgical strike without tom tomming about it to avenge the killing of…
Delhi teen kept in Instagram chat group case
The Instagram application is seen on a phone screen. | Photo Credit: REUTERS During the probe, police have found the…
Put some cash in the hands of people … so that they have cash when lockdown opens, states Abhijit Banerjee
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee in a conversation with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, an edited video of which was released…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 42 live updates | India records largest single-day spike
India recorded the largest single-day spike in positive cases on Monday with 3,900 new cases reported in the last 24…
App for one season: on Centre’s regulation to utilize Arogya Setu
Aarogya Setu has sparked concerns; it cannot be made mandatory without legal backing The Centre’s national directive for the mandatory…
Off course: On Cauvery water issue
The real issue with the Cauvery waters Authority is that it is rudderless The Cauvery is a perennial source of…
No Shikhar Dhawan does not have a twin, that’s his doppelganger
NEW DELHI: That international cricketers are some of the most popular people in the world is no secret. It's no…
Coronavirus latest updates: Death toll rises to 1,568, cases climb to 46,433 in India
NEW DELHI: As many as 1,074 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the last 24 hours, the highest number of recoveries…
When Ashwin discovered a feature of sportsman’s spirit from Harbhajan
CHENNAI: The Harbhajan Singh-R Ashwin rivalry for that lone off-spinner's slot in the Indian team was quite a topic of…
2,900 Covid-19 cases on Monday, 4th record set in 4 days
NEW DELHI: For the fourth day running, the number of new Covid-19 cases in India hit a new high, with…
Terrorists step up attacks: 3 CRPF men, teenager killed in Handwara village
SRINAGAR: Four people — three CRPF jawans and a physically challenged boy of 14 years — were killed when several…
Coronavirus: 65-acre Tamil Nadu market is now a super spreader
The Koyambedu wholesale market, which attracts people from across Tamil Nadu looking to sell their produce or seeking jobs, has…
Booze flows, and chaos follows
People queue at a liquor store in Bengaluru on Monday.A flood of people after a long dry spell. Queues, chaos…
2,900 Covid-19 cases on Monday, 4th record set in 4 days
NEW DELHI: For the fourth day running, the number of new Covid-19 cases in India hit a new high, with…
WHO says got no proof from US on ‘speculative’ Wuhan lab virus claims
GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support "speculative" claims by the US…
Covid-19: Global backlash builds against China over coronavirus
BRUSSELS: Australia has called for an inquiry into the origin of the coronavirus. Germany and Britain are hesitating anew about…
China either incompetent in preventing coronavirus spread or did it for a reason: US President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, who has come under fierce criticism for his handling of the coronavirus crisis in the US,…
India like ‘pharmacy of world’, has sent medicines to over 120 nations: PM Modi at NAM summit
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attended the Non-Aligned Movement virtual summit and said that India's fight against…
Coronavirus roundup: Advancement in India and rest of world
NEW DELHI: Even as Railways' 'Shramik Express' trains ferried migrant workers to their home states, in some other places yet,…
3 CRPF personnel martyred in terrorist attack in J&K
SRINAGAR: Three CRPF personnel were martyred and two others injured when terrorists opened fire on them at a checkpoint in…
India to start evacuating citizens stuck abroad from May 7
NEW DELHI: India on Monday said it will begin evacuating its nationals stuck abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic from…
Liquor shops open after 40 days in lockdown, social distancing rules taken for a ride
People purchase liquor from a shop in Varanasi. (Credits: PTI)NEW DELHI: Forty days into the national lockdown implemented to contain…
Analysis | What’s behind Trump’s China attacks?
President Donald Trump and his aides have stepped up attacks on China in recent weeks over the COVID-19 outbreak as…
Incredibly high death rate in West Bengal, states Central team
Barricades put up at Raja Bazar which is a Red Zone in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Inter-Ministerial Central…
Jharkhand govt. not to carry out lockdown relaxations for now
Migrant workers reach Hatia Station near Ranchi. A ‘Shramik Special’ train carrying 1200 migrant labourers of Jharkhand reached Ranchi on…
Shramik Special: Now, Railways states ‘sending States’ will have to pay ticket expenses
The statement follows severe criticism of the Railways guidelines on the Shramik Special. | File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement…
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Migrant workers pelt stones at police in Surat
The labourers clashed with police and threw stones at them, following which the security personnel retaliated ...Read MoreSURAT: Migrant labourers…
Would be devastating if India do not visit Australia: Marnus Labuschagne
SYDNEY: Top Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne on Monday said he and his team would be "pretty devastated" if India don't…
Bengal has highest Covid-19 mortality rate, central team tells chief secretary
KOLKATA: West Bengal has the highest mortality rate in the country at 12.8 per cent, Inter Ministerial Central Team (IMCT)…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 41 live updates | We will have to learn to live with the virus, says Kejriwal
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India crossed 40,000 on Sunday, making it one among 16 countries that…
Congress will pay for rail travel of migrant employees, says Sonia Gandhi
Congress president Sonia Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI What is particularly disturbing is that the Central government and the…
After Facebook, Silver Lake invests 5,656 crore in Dependence Jio Platforms
Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing has agreed to invest ₹5,655.75 crore in Mukesh Ambani led Jio Platforms…
Inside a quarantine centre, a drive to conserve lives
At the quarantine centre in Sultanpuri, one of facilities where members of the Tablighi Jamaat are being kept, a handful…
New policy for satellite TELEVISION channels lays ground for MHA disturbance
Given its political nature, it will discourage investors, says an industry source To overhaul it’s nine year-old uplink and downlink…
Lockdown hits floriculture in the Nilgiris
The expansive beds of Asiatic and Oriental Liliums in one hectare horticulture farm of Wahid Sait in Coonoor are in…
China hid coronavirus’ severity to hoard supplies: US Homeland Security report
WASHINGTON: US officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is…
Coronavirus latest updates: 2,667 new cases reported on Sunday, highest single-day tally
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 count crossed 40,000 cases in the country with fresh infections hitting another new high on Sunday,…
Lockdown 3.0: What all you can do from today, and what you can’t
NEW DELHI: The second extension of coronavirus-induced lockdown began across the country from Monday. The two-week extension was announced by…
Trump says US to have coronavirus vaccine by end of year
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of this…
Covid-19: 13 urban spreads account for 2/3rd of India’s cases, deaths
Nearly three-fourths of all Covid-19 cases and deaths reported in India have been in the country’s 35 largest urban agglomerations…