Coronavirus | India says its recovery rate is 40% while recording new daily high in number of cases
After a gap of nine days, the Union Health Ministry held its daily press briefing on COVID-19 on May 20,…
India has to come to terms with inequality: Thomas Piketty
The seminal work of Thomas Piketty, Professor of Economics at Paris-based School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and…
Coronavirus | Vaccine will be for global public good, says U.S. health expert
If the United States is the first to develop an effective vaccine against the coronavirus (COVID-19), it has to quickly…
Coronavirus | Only 2,132 availed or being treated for COVID-19 under Ayushman Bharat scheme
Only 2,132 people have availed or are now undergoing treatment for COVID-19 under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana…
MHA excuses board examinations from lockdown steps
Long hiatus: Students were in the middle of the Board exams when the lockdown was imposed. Students and teachers will…
Cyclone Amphan batters West Bengal, Odisha
Three persons were killed as super cyclonic storm Amphan made landfall near Sagar Islands in South 24 Parganas district of…
Covid-19: New high of 5,376 cases in a day across country
Representative imageNEW DELHI: India recorded its biggest single-day jump in Covid-19 cases so far, breaching the 5,000-mark for the third…
US slams China’s ‘disturbing behaviour’ at India border
Image credit: Twitter/@ITBP_officialNEW DELHI: In a sharp criticism of China over border tensions with India, the US on Wednesday described…
Online booking for 200 special trains from 10am today, large chunk connecting UP & Bihar
NEW DELHI: From 10am on Thursday, the railways will start online booking of tickets for 200 trains (100 pairs) which…
2 BSF men killed in J&K terror attack, 4 held for LeT link
SRINAGAR: Two BSF personnel were on Wednesday gunned down in the line of duty by a pair of motorbike-borne terrorists…
India counters, states Nepal making unwarranted claims
NEW DELHI: After Nepal Wednesday made public its new map claiming territory under India's control as its own, the government…
Domestic flights to resume from Monday, bookings begin today
NEW DELHI: Domestic flights will finally start taking to the skies from Monday (May 25) in a gradual manner, exactly…
United States cautions of deaths from anxiety, suicide, drug abuse in rationale for fast rollback of shutdown
The Trump administration has rolled out a new rationale for fully reopening the United States for business. (A...Read MoreWASHINGTON: The…
Cabinet decisions will help several citizens: PM Modi
NEW DELHI: The decisions taken by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday were focused on welfare of migrant workers, senior citizens,…
India reacts sharply to Nepal releasing new map, calls it unjustified cartographic assertion
The Lipulekh pass is a far western point near KalapaniNEW DELHI: In a strong reaction to Nepal releasing a new…
Centre sanctions Rs 46,038.70 cr as states’ shares in taxes for May
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Monday said it has sanctioned Rs 46,038.70 crore for May instalment of devolution of…
Domestic flights to resume from May 25: Hardeep Singh Puri
NEW DELHI: Domestic flights will resume in a gradual manner from May 25, that is next Monday, civil aviation minister…
Domestic traveler flights to resume in calibrated manner from May 25: Civil Air Travel Minister
All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 25, when the Modi government imposed lockdown to…
Nepal’s new map claims areas of India in west, asserts control over Susta in east
Nepal has officially unveiled a new political map of the country showing the regions of Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh of…
Homeowners hear ‘loud noise’ in lots of parts of Bengaluru
The noise was not due to an earthquake, officials say A loud noise heard by residents of several parts of…
Foreign financiers take out $26 billion from Asian economies; $16 billion from India
Amidst the global economic recession due to the coronavirus pandemic, foreign investors have pulled out an estimated $26 billion from…
Stress intensify along LAC in Sikkim as China accuses India of trespass
China has accused the Indian army of crossing into its territory and “blocking” its patrols and “attempting to unilaterally change…
Devices used for screening drug-resistant TB can be now used for confirmation of COVID-19 cases
According to the guidelines, all samples of suspect COVID-19 should be first tested by the E gene screening assay. Diagnostic…
What number should India really be worried about?
TODAY’S TAKEWhat number should India really be worried about?While the total headcount of Covid-19 cases is nearing 1.07 lakh, that…
A quake, aircraft or thunder, what did Bengaluru hear?
An aerial view of Satellite Bus Stand on Mysore road during the nationwide lockdown, imposed in the wake of co...Read…
Coronavirus vaccine: What is the current status of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and everything you should know about it
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Last updated on - May 20, 2020, 15:30 ISTclose01/7COVID-19 vaccine: What is the current status of Moderna vaccine…
Covid-19: China’s new outbreak shows signs the coronavirus could be changing
BEIJING: Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast…
Union health minister Harsh Vardhan to head WHO executive board
Union health minister Harsh Vardhan (File Photo)NEW DELHI: Union health minister Harsh Vardhan has been elected as the chairman of…
Cyclone Amphan heads towards West Bengal: Key points
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: May 20, 2020, 16:19 ISTNEW DELHI: The landfall process of cyclone 'Amphan' commenced at 2.30 pm on…
Amphan cyclone tracker | Migrant trains to Bengal, Odisha cancelled
Heavy rain and strong wind battered coastal Odisha districts as the super cyclone Amphan hurtled towards the coast on Wednesday…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 57 live updates | Railways to operate 200 non-AC trains daily from June 1
Uncertainity continues over the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) which was introduced as a game-changer to arrest the spread of COVID-19.…
In Karnataka, infection rate highest amongst those in 20-29 age bracket
File photo of antibody-based rapid test kits. For representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj 26 among the…
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Cyclone Amphan live updates: 19 NDRF teams on ground ahead of landfall
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | May 20, 2020, 10:15:56 ISTCyclone Amphan will make landfall close to Sundarbans between…
World cricket can not afford cancellation of IPL: Sundar Raman
MUMBAI: Unprecedented in our lifetime, the havoc that the outbreak of Covid-19 brought about has left, among other sectors, the…
Indian Railways to run 200 non-AC trains daily from June 1
Representative image (PTI)NEW DELHI: The railways took important decisions on Tuesday to increase the flow of migrants to states, though…
Coronavirus live: In biggest single day spike, India records over 5,200 Covid cases
US borders with Canada, Mexico closed another month, reports AFP.The US Department of Homeland Security said the clos
Migrants to be tracked, focus on keeping toll low: Centre
Representative image (ANI)NEW DELHI: It will need around two weeks of monitoring and testing of migrants reaching their homes in…
In biggest single day spike, India records over 5,200 Covid cases
NEW DELHI: A day after India’s Covid-19 count crossed the 1 lakh mark, more than 5,200 fresh cases were reported…
‘Vocal for regional’: Firms quizzed by govt-run stores
Representative imageNEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Taking PM Narendra Modi’s 'vocal for local’ as a call to action, government-run stores such as the…
Border row with India worsens, Nepal to release brand-new map
Representative imageNEW DELHI: India and Nepal seemed headed for a diplomatic showdown with Nepalese PM K P Oli declaring in…
Cyclone Amphan set to strike Bengal today
Clouds loom over Kolkata as Cyclone Amphan barrels towards India's eastern coast. (TOI photo)NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Weakened but still packing a…
Delhi shops reopened but very few people turned up
NEW DELHI: Delhi tiptoed into a semblance of normalcy on Monday with many shops opening for the first time in…
A.P. gas leak: Supreme Court decreases to interfere with NGT order
Supreme Court of India. It asks LG Polymers to move tribunal The Supreme Court did not interfere on Tuesday with…
Dead stop: On opening of stadia for training
Athletes are obsessed with movement. Being static isn’t part of their DNA and while the novel coronavirus pandemic forced people…
Unity for power: Israel’s unity federal government
May 20, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: May 20, 2020 01:14 IST May 20, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: May 20, 2020…
News Analysis | Behind new incidents, a changed dynamic along India-China border
A greater capability by India to patrol up to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) coupled with an increasingly assertive…
Coronavirus | Health Ministry issues new guidelines for workplaces
The Union Health Ministry announced fresh workplace guidelines on Tuesday.With the easing of the lockdown measures and with more offices/workplaces…
Trains to run 200 timetable based trains from June 1
These would be non-AC trains, booking for which would be done only online. The Indian Railways on Tuesday announced that…
Coronavirus | COVID-19 unlikely to affect illicit drug supply, says United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Movement restrictions owing to the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to an initial statistical reduction in drug seizures, but without a…