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…
Public transport may start soon, will help boost trust: Nitin Gadkari
NEW DELHI: Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday indicated that government may be considering to soon start public…
Hizb’s India chief Naikoo killed in Pulwama shootout
SRINAGAR: One of Kashmir's most-wanted terrorists, Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo, was on Wednesday killed along with an aide in…
Air India repatriation flights will fly out people too
NEW DELHI: Air India isn’t only bringing back Indians stranded abroad under the Vande Bharat mission, it’s now opened bookings…
Bus services may resume quickly with some guidelines, says Gadkari
Bihar's migrants arrive by special train from Karnataka waving from a bus on their way to their native places at…
Ex-U.S. soldiers, Venezuelan rebels and amphibious attacks: The story of a plot to fall Maduro
In the early morning of May 3, Venezuela’s Interior Minister Nestor Reverol appeared on television and claimed that security forces…
Desired Hizbul “functional 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…
Airports in Kerala, other states gear up to receive stranded Indians abroad from Thursday
KOCHI/NEW DELHI: Airports were geared up to receive Indian nationals stranded abroad due to the coronavirus lockdown with Air India's…
‘Of course, we will share it with the world’: Israel’s ambassador to India on Covid-19 ‘breakthrough’
NEW DELHI: Israel's ambassador to India Ron Malka on Wednesday said that his country is an advanced stage of a…
Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
NEW DELHI: The railways on Wednesday said it has run 115 Shramik Special trains since May 1 and ferried home…
In Bengal, low rate of Covid-19 testing, high rate of death: MHA
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday said the Covid-19 response in West Bengal is characterised by a very low rate…
Trump’s America fixes up to death in life vs income argument
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s America will look death in the eye and resume economic activities in the face of apprehension in…
Public transport may resume soon with guidelines: Nitin Gadkari
NEW DELHI: Public transport services may resume operations soon and the government is formulating guidelines for safe usage adhering to…
Flights to bring back Indians postponed by a minimum of 24-48 hours
Wait for Indians gets longer as Air India crew need to undergo COVID-19 tests The wait to return home for…
Bengal’s stopping of necessary items vehicles to Bangladesh an infraction of MHA orders, states Home Secretary
The India-Bangladesh border at Fulbari Border checkpoint, some 16 km from Siliguri, West Bengal. | Photo Credit: AFP Ajay Bhalla…
Cops anticipate ‘big catch’ in Beighpora operation in Pulwama
Army jawans rush towards encounter site in Sharsali and Beighpora areas of Pulwama district south Kashmir on May 06, 2020.…
No data of stranded migrant labourers with Labour Commissioner’s office: Labour Ministry to RTI activist
The office of Chief Labour Commissioner, which had ordered a count of stranded migrant labourers in the country last month,…
Karnataka announces 1,610 crore COVID-19 lockdown relief plan
Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa on Wednesday announced a ₹1,610-crore relief package to help affected people in various sectors including…