Coronavirus | Centre warns States against diluting lockdown curbs
Railway official mark passengers with a quarantine stamp after arriving on a special train service from Delhi to Secunderabad railway…
Super Cyclone Amphan threatens Odisha, West Bengal
The storm system in the Bay of Bengal, Amphan, developed into a super cyclone on Monday and is expected to…
Possible Oxford vaccine stops working to avoid virus spread in monkeys
A high-profile potential vaccine for COVID-19 being tested by researchers at Oxord University failed to protect vaccinated monkeys from being…
Call for WHO probe into infection origin
An India-backed draft resolution at the 73rd session of the World Health Assembly received a big boost on Monday when…
Coronavirus | More than 5,000 new cases push India’s overall tally past 1 lakh
India’s tally of COVID-19 cases crossed the one lakh mark on Monday, with 5,079 new cases taking the total to…
Coronavirus | Little for farmers in Centre’s package: Sharad Pawar
Sharad Pawar. File photo: PTI ‘Standing crops lost due to lockdown’ Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and former Union Agriculture…
83 LCA-MK1A deal high concern: IAF chief
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will set up the second squadron of indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas by month-end,…
Bihar BJP tailoring for Assembly surveys
The BJP’s Bihar unit is preparing to face Assembly polls which, under the pre-COVID19 calender, were scheduled to be held…
Kumble-led ICC committee advises restriction on saliva due to COVID-19 pandemic
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India has done well in dealing with Covid-19 pandemic: Harsh Vardhan
NEW DELHI: India took all the necessary steps well in time to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Union Health minister Harsh…
Coronavirus roundup: Advancement in India and rest of world
Commercial establishments and several public places started to open up in India and across the world as countries tried to…
Lockdown 4.0: States announce guidelines
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: May 18, 2020, 22:09 ISTNEW DELHI: A day after the government announced the extension of nationwide coronavirus-induced…
Covid-19: Pandemic shatters world order, sowing anger and mistrust
WASHINGTON: While the coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc across much of the globe, political and business leaders are already starting to…
100 employees of car company in Gurugram stroll 30 km to reach office
The workers of Shivam Autotech Ltd. in Gurugram's Binola village walking to the work on Monday morning, after management refused…
Heavy rain lashes Kerala, yellow alerts issued in 13 districts for today
A man rides a bicycle on a deserted street under dark clouds in Kozhikode, Sunday, May 17, 2020. The IMD…
Migrant employees, cops clash in Ahmedabad
Ever since the lockdown was imposed to combat the COVID-19, Gujarat has seen around a dozen incidents of violence between…
Day 55 of Coronavirus lockdown: Ground report from Indian cities
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | May 18, 2020, 13:57 ISTTraffic in Delhi after some restrictions are eased. (Credits: Reuters)NEW DELHI: Total number of…
Stuck in Spain, running out of money, missed her brother’s last rites: Paddler Takeme Sarkar’s horror continues
NEW DELHI: Indian table tennis player Takeme Sarkar wanted to take her game to the next level and compete alongside…
Odisha, West Bengal brace to fight cyclone Amphan amid Covid crisis: All you need to know
A vehicle crushed under an uprooted tree following a storm in Coimbatore. (Credits: PTI)NEW DELHI: Cyclone 'Amphan' intensified into an…
With 42%living in slums, virus casts long shadow across Mumbai
MUMBAI: In 1898, colonial authorities created the Bombay Improvement Trust on the heels of a devastating plague to upgrade living…
7. If it’s a brand-new Cold War, will India remain non-aligned?
7. If it’s a new Cold War, will India stay non-aligned?The United States and China are “essentially in the beginning…
PM Modi’s popularity skyrockets as India weathers Covid pandemic
NEW DELHI: Just before the coronavirus arrived in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced serious challenges, perhaps the biggest of…
Virat Kohli ready to act in his biopic however on one condition
NEW DELHI: Indian skipper Virat Kohli said he is ready to act in his biopic but wants his wife Anushka…
Lockdown 4.0: States freed to fix zones
NEW DELHI: In the most significant easing of the national lock down yet, the Centre gave states considerable leeway in…
Coronavirus live updates: Covid-19 cases in India surges to 96,169, toll over 3k
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | May 18, 2020, 10:03:27 ISTThe Centre on Sunday extended the nationwide lockdown till…
Covid-19: For first time, new cases top 5,000; deaths up by 154
NEW DELHI: Covid-19 infections continued to surge in the country on the last day of lockdown 3.0, with the number…
COVID-19 | India among countries backing probe into scientific ‘events’ behind pandemic
Residents wearing face masks wait in line for nucleic acid testing at a residential community in Wuhan, Hubei, China. |…
Coronavirus | India records over 5,000 cases on May 17
Maharashtra registered its highest single-day increase of 2,347 COVID-19 cases to take its overall tally to 33,053 and 1,198 deaths.…
Coronavirus package | Centre throws open all sectors to private players
The Centre has agreed to demands from States to hike their borrowing limits from 3% to 5% of their GDP…
Peaking: On India’s coronavirus tally
In 106 days since the first laboratory-confirmed novel coronavirus case was reported on January 30, India surpassed China’s tally of…
Farm gate in focus: On amending Necessary Products Act
The Centre’s objective of using the COVID-19 crisis to usher in an Atmanirbhar Bharat saw Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman focus…
Coronavirus | Surge disproves NITI Aayog’s ‘zero cases by May 16’ prediction
The number of COVID-19 positive cases in India nearing the six-digit mark has disproved an assessment by V.K. Paul, NITI…
Coronavirus lockdown | Truck ditches ill man on road, friend stays back till his death
Reaching home a couple of days late was all right for Yaqoob Mohammad but not returning to his village alone,…
It’s a 3.22-lakh-crore bundle, says Congress
The actual quantum of the Aatmanirbhar stimulus package announced by the government is not ₹20 lakh crore or 10% of…
Picture of a weeping Rampukar Pandit becomes sign of India’s migrant worker tragedy
Rampukar Pandit, who became a snapshot of India’s migrant tragedy with his photograph sobbing by a road in Delhi, is…
Lockdown 4.0 guidelines | What’s allowed and what’s not?
A mango vendor passing through a deserted road amid scorching heat during lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus (COVID-19)…
Pandemic brings Uttarakhand’s ghost hamlets to life
“Aapada main avsar (opportunity in disaster)”— Tribhuvan Oniyal has latched on to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s phrase to turn the…
India needs to not give Taliban authenticity till it signs up with intra-Afghan talks, states former envoy Amar Sinha
Saying that the U.S. is trying to salvage its deal with the Taliban, despite rising violence in Afghanistan, National Security…
Coronavirus | Commercial sex work could spike COVID-19 cases in India, says study
Allowing commercial sex work to commence immediately after lockdown in India’s red light areas could lead to a rapid rise…
Congress delighting in theatrics over migrant workers, states Nirmala Sitharaman
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during her fifth press conference on Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan stimulus package at National Media Centre in…
Covid-19 doubling time in India improved to 13.6 days in last 3 days: Harsh Vardhan
NEW DELHI: The doubling time of coronavirus infection in India has improved to 13.6 days in the last three days…
‘Social distancing, staggered work hours’: Instructions for work environments and workplaces in Lockdown 4.0
Lockdown 4.0: What is allowed and what is not allowedThe nation-wide coronavirus-induced lockdown was extended f
Public spaces, flight ops, going shopping malls to stay shut till May 31: MHA standards on lockdown 4.0
NEW DELHI: Prohibition on all public gatherings, closure of schools, malls and restaurants, and suspension of flight and Metro services…
Lockdown 4.0: National directives for Covid-19 management
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Covid-19: Here’s what is new in lockdown 4.0
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday extended the nationwide lockdown till May 31, the third such extension, to curb the…
Lockdown 4.0: Here are the MHA guidelines
NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs on Sunday announced extension of lockdown till May 31 to curb the spread…
INS Jalashwa arrives in Kochi with 588 evacuees from the Maldives
INS Jalashwa bringing back 698 Indians to Kochi from the Maldives on May 10. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat This…
Nirmala Sitharaman press conference live updates | Final tranche of stimulus package to be announced today
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a press conference on Sunday, said that the focus of the fifth and final…
Encounter underway in between security forces, concealing militants in J&K’s Doda
An encounter between hiding militants and a search party of the security forces started in the Chenab Valley’s Doda district…