As Bollywood deals with criticism for doing bit, Akshay Kumar contributes 25 crore towards COVID-19 relief
Akshay Kumar has pledged the amount to the newly formed Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund.…
Home Ministry asks states to set up relief camps for migrant workers, use SDRF funds
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday asked the state governments and Union Territory administrations to utilise the State Disaster Response…
Coronavirus: Modi announces ‘PM CARES Fund’, urges people to donate
NEW DELHI: As India grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that an "emergency fund"…
States, UTs intensify vigil on travelers who arrived from abroad
NEW DELHI: In a bid to check the spread of coronavirus, many state and Union Territories have intensified monitoring of…
Coronavirus: How India is preparing for tougher challenges ahead
NEW DELHI: Amid looming fears of coronavirus infection entering the community transmission stage, India is boosting its overall health infrastructure…
Virat Kohli is not a man to mess around: Ravi Shastri
NEW DELHI: Head coach Ravi Shastri has called Virat Kohli the "boss" of Indian cricket and said the support staff…
Violence erupts in China as people try to leave COVID-19-hit Hubei after lockdown relaxed
BEIJING: Incidents of violent clashes erupting in the Chinese mainland have been reported as people in huge crowds, jamming buses…
Similar stories, really personal disasters
Their stories are similar, their tragedies their own. Hundreds of workers, some accompanied by children, are on the move in…
UP govt. sets up 1,000 buses for stranded migrant workers
Migrants gather at Charbagh bus station, the main bus station in Lucknow, on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Omar Rashid On…
Contaminating healthy people with coronavirus can accelerate vaccine trials
Even if everything goes to plan, it will take at least 12-18 months for a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine to…
Delhi records lowest PM10 levels in 6 months, temp falls due to rains
Early morning sky and deserted road during curfew imposed till March 31, 2020 as a preventive measure against spread of…
Kerala signs up very first COVID-19 death
A woman with a child walks past a notice board outside the Special Isolation Ward set up to provide treatment…
Journalist who tested positive for COVID-19 booked for carelessness
Police cops keeping vigil at Board Office Square during curfew in Bhopal on Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 | Photo Credit:…
There was no leniency in evaluating for foreign travellers, ‘thriving Indians’, says Centre
An advisory desk, ‘Novel Coronavirus Help Desk’, put up at an airport in Visakhapatnam. (Representational image) Centre refutes allegations that…
My gut feel is Dhoni’s India ambitions might be over: Harsha Bhogle
NEW DELHI: With uncertainty looming over the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League, celebrated cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle feels…
Coronavirus: UP govt provides aid for stranded labourers
ANI | Updated: Mar 28, 2020, 14:02 ISTMigrants wait to board a bus to their native village at Anand Vihar…
Railways manufactures prototype of isolation ward in non-AC coaches
NEW DELHI: The railways has manufactured a prototype of an isolation ward for treating coronavirus patients by converting non-air-conditioned train…
You touch your face 23 times an hour
The entire point behind the exhortation to wash your hands every 20 minutes is to prevent the coronavirus pathogen from…
Continuous break a ‘welcome rest’ for India players: Ravi Shastri
NEW DELHI: Sport coming to a standstill owing to the COVID-19 pandemic is a "welcome rest" for India cricketers, feels…
Coronavirus most current updates: More than 595,000 individuals infected around the world
NEW DELHI: Led by a rush of cases in Kerala, the daily count of new Covid-19 infections in India zoomed…
Wall Street tumbles as U.S. virus cases pass 100,000
Wall Street stocks tumbled on Friday, ending a massive three-day surge after doubts about the fate of the U.S. economy…
Kerala male was among Kabul gurdwara enemies
Mohsin left for UAE two years ago A man from Kasaragod in Kerala is said to be one of the…
Named, shamed, and living in worry: On Lucknow anti-CAA demonstrations and the implicated
On March 16, the Lucknow administration served a ‘demand notice’ against 20-year-old Osama Siddiqui and 12 others stipulating that they…
Coronavirus | Indian seafarers stranded in Iran due to global shutdown
Among the over 250 Indians stranded in coronavirus-hit Iran are fishermen and seafarers. Many of these seafarers are trainee ratings,…
RBI’s guns boom: On lockdown relief
India’s financial system will need more support as the virus crisis evolves The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finally rolled…
Trial and turmoil: On Israel government formation
Netanyahu has earned another reprieve, but it might not last long Thursday’s election of Benny Gantz, leader of the opposition…
Coronavirus live updates: Total Covid-19 cases in India rise to 834
Number of COVID-19 cases in UK rises by some 3,000, toll reaches 7
RBI cuts rate by 75 bps, steepest in over 10 years; you can defer EMIs by 3 months
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. (PTI)MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday cut interest rates by 75 basis points (bps)—the…
At 124, biggest 1-day surge in new cases; 39 in Kerala alone
PTI photo.NEW DELHI: Led by a rush of cases in Kerala, the daily count of new Covid-19 infections in the…
Citizens, NGOs reach out to the needy with food, rations & cash
Two women serve food to the homeless people during lockdown in Vijayawada. NEW DELHI: From Delhi to Bengaluru, Mumbai to…
Coronavirus: Cops enforce lockdown with blows & insults
An inquiry was ordered into the death of a 49-year-old ambulance driver on Friday after he was allegedly hit by…
Give shelter to stranded migrants, make them stay put: Centre to states
A group of migrant workers walk to their native places amid the nationwide complete lockdown, on the NH24 near...Read MoreNEW…
British PM Johnson, health secretary Hancock test positive for coronavirus
Britain's PM Boris Johnson (right) and health secretary Matt Hancock. (Credits: AP)LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday…
Latin America coronavirus cases pass 10,000
A researcher in Rio de Janeiro works to develop a new test to detect coronavirus infections: Reuters ...Read MoreMONTEVIDEO: Coronavirus…
Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 27, 2020, 21:12 ISTA volunteer in hazmat suit, Kabul. (Credits: AFP)NEW DELHI: As the number of…
‘You’re a fighter, you will conquer this obstacle’: Modi to UK PM Boris Johnson who tests coronavirus favorable
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described British premier Boris Johnson as a "fighter" and hoped he recovers…
Kollam sub-collector leaps quarantine
Kerala government suspends him for violation. Kollam sub-collector Anupam Mishra, a 2016-batch IAS officer, has been suspended by the Kerala…
Coronavirus | India to add 40,000 ventilators by June to battle virus
As the ICMR on Friday confirmed 75 fresh cases and 17 deaths in the COVID-19 outbreak, the Union Health Ministry…
India coronavirus lockdown | Finance Ministry pulls up banks on shut branches
Bank unions cite problems the staff faced in reaching branches. The Union Finance Ministry has asked banks to explain why…
Italy reports 919 new deaths, highest everyday tally since start of outbreak
Medical staff in protective suits treat a patient suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in an intensive care unit at the…
India to join WHO’s COVID-19 trials
World Health Organisation The Solidarity Trial will test four different drugs or combinations India is all set to join World…
Coronavirus | NEET postponed till last week of May
Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal. File HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said he has directed the NTA to…
Tamil Nadu govt sets operation time for stores selling essential products, food delivery services
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami chairs a meeting with Ministres and senior officers to review the coronavirus situation,…
Coronavirus | Monitor 15 lakh international air passengers of past over two months, States told
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has asked the States to effectively monitor 15 lakh international air passengers who came from January…
‘This is not an ordinary war’: Virat Kohli urges residents to strictly follow lockdown
(Photo credit: Screengrab from video posted by @imVkohli on Twitter)NEW DELHI: Not impressed with the way people are taking the…
Covid-19: Cabinet secretary says ‘gap’ in actual monitoring, asks states to strengthen surveillance urgently
NEW DELHI: Cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba has asked states to urgently strengthen the surveillance of international travellers who entered the…
Domestic, international flight restriction extended; to restart from April 14-15 midnight: DGCA
NEW DELHI: Schedule domestic passenger flights, like international ones, will restart from the midnight of April 14-15, the Directorate General…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he had tested positive for coronavirus and was self-isolating at Downing…
Day 3 of coronavirus lockdown: Ground reports from cities
NEW DELHI: The country continued to reel as the number of positive cases of novel coronavirus surged to 727 on…
Coronavirus: Karnataka records 3rd death
The Tumakuru district government hospital This is the first positive COVID-19 case in Tumakuru district A 65-year-old man who died…