RBI tosses 2nd Rs 1 lakh-crore-lifeline, prompts banks to provide more
MUMBAI: Three weeks after it unveiled its first package on March 27 for an economy battered by the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 25 updates | Three more test positive; total cases climb to 39 in Himachal Pradesh
In the light of the India-wide lockdown, the Home Ministry has extended regular and e-visas of all foreigners who are…
New york city guv attacks Trump for ‘passing buck’ on pandemic response
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday launched a blistering attack on President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus crisis,…
Farming under lockdown: Short on labourers, a long harvest
Jagtar Singh is a man in a hurry. It’s April 15, and with temperatures starting to soar, the government has…
Screen Rohingya and their contacts who went to the Tablighi Jamaat occasion, House Ministry tells States
Advisory comes after reports of refugees’ visits to Nizamuddin event and other gatherings The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has…
ICMR to study if BCG vaccine helps prevent coronavirus
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will start a new trial next week to study the efficacy…
‘Virus jabs’, ‘detention camps’: Rumours lead to attacks on medicos
NEW DELHI: A mix of rumours on social media and misinformation about quarantine centres could be provoking mobs to attack…
Wildly varying data across states makes comparisons difficult
NEW DELHI: In states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and a few others, roughly 80% of the active Covid-19 cases are…
Rate of growth in Covid-19 cases down 40%considering that April 1
NEW DELHI: India witnessed a significant decline of 40% in growth of Covid-19 cases since April 1, compared to a…
Pune zilla parishad prepares hard action to check domestic violence
To counter the increasing cases of domestic violence during the current COVID-19 lockdown, the Pune Zilla Parishad has borrowed a…
Coronavirus | Home Ministry extends visa of stranded foreigners till May 3
The Home Ministry on Friday extended regular and e-visas of all foreigners who are stranded in India due to the…
Assisting a providing hand: On RBI’s 2nd lockdown stimulus
The RBI has made life easier for banks; it has given the govt. the cue for a fiscal support plan…
A season of modification: On IMD forecast system
It is time for the India Meteorological Department to incorporate lessons from the new normal In the season of the…
Coronavirus | Restrictions in Tamil Nadu’s 388 ‘containment zones’ set to continue beyond May 3
On a day when Tamil Nadu recorded 56 new cases of COVID-19, taking the tally to 1,323, Chief Secretary K.…
Coronavirus | Centre’s financial package announced at just .7% of GDP is inadequate, says Pinarayi Vijayan
States with their limited resources will have to shoulder the greater burden of economic crisis that will follow COVID-19, Kerala…
Post-lockdown, India’s infection growth rate has actually decreased, states Ministry
With no current evidence suggesting that Coronavirus is showing any signs of mutation as per the Indian Council of Medical…
Coronavirus | We are taking care that nobody in U.P. goes hungry, says Yogi Adityanath
At the helm of India’s most populous State, Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath details his government’s strategy to prevent…
Minor forest produce in exemption list
A file photo of tribal people collecting minor forest produce. This includes non-timber items such as bamboo and other grasses,…
Covid impact: ICC member boards running ‘major threat’ of financial insolvency
MUMBAI: The outbreak and spread of Covid-19 over the last two months, one that has affected cricket across the globe…
Trump cautiously moots reopening parts of America for business even as toll mounts
WASHINGTON: The United States began re-opening for business in some thinly-populated states largely unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic under President…
Shutdown norms thrown to wind in Karnataka; people swarm wedding, temple festival
Kannada actor Nikhil Kumaraswamy and Revathi's farmhouse wedding near Bengaluru has made headlines for all the...Read MoreBENGALURU: In twin instances…
Doubling rate of Covid-19 cases in India reduced with imposition of lockdown: Health ministry
NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry said on Friday the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the…
Containment operations to be scaled down if no secondary Covid-19 case for 4 weeks: Govt
Containment operations will be scaled down if no secondary positive case of Covid-19 is reported from a quaran...Read MoreNEW DELHI:…
Japan offers $930 infection stimulus payment to all citizens
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves after a press conference in Tokyo on April 17, 2020. | Photo Credit: AFP…
IAF Apache copter makes precautionary landing
An Indian Air Force Apache attack helicopter made a precautionary landing in a field in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab…
India eliminates export curbs on formulas from Paracetamol
Restrictions on export of the APIs remain The Centre has permitted the export of formulations made from Paracetamol. The government…
Coronavirus | Not just medical care but mental and emotional support helped, say survivors
The high fever, mind numbing tiredness and the constant positive mental/emotional enforcement from the medical staff — that is what…
Two militants shot dead in Kashmir’s Shopian
Jawans during an encounter in Shopian district of south kashmir on August 2, 2019. | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD They…
Coronavirus India lockdown Day 24 updates | Over 13,300 cases reported as death toll touches 450
Madhya Pradesh has emerged as one of the current hotspots for COVID-19 cases in India as the State reported 20…
India combating Covid-19 internationally, Pakistan hectic exporting terror: Army Chief Gen Naravane
General MM Naravane, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) during his visit to Kashmir to review the prevailing security situation in…
RBI’s steps will enhance liquidity, improve credit supply: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wearing homemade face mask while addressing the nation over coronavirus on May 14...Read MoreNEW DELHI: Prime…
No point talking about IPL in Sri Lanka today: BCCI official
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is keen to host the currently-suspended IPL but the influential voices within the BCCI…
Day 24 of coronavirus lockdown: Ground reports from Indian cities
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Apr 17, 2020, 13:51 ISTNEW DELHI: India now has total 13,387 coronavirus cases according to the ministry…
Community participation key to fighting pandemic: WHO expert
Women stand in a long queue outside a bank branch to withdraw cash during the nationwide lockdown in wake of…
Coronavirus live updates: Union group of ministers (GOM) conference over Covid-19, underway at Nirman Bhawan
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Apr 17, 2020, 16:15:41 ISTThe number of cases reported in India now stands…
Sensex soars over 1,050 points; Nifty above 9,300
NEW DELHI: Equity indices surged on Friday with the benchmark BSE sensex rising more than 1,050 points on stimulus hopes…
Read Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s email to employees
Google’s parent company Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has sent an email to employees detailing the steps that the company plans…
Post lockdown, players will require at least 3 weeks to enter match mode
CHENNAI: The craving for live sports action is increasing. The fans are waiting for the lockdown to get over and…
Trump unveils guidelines to reopen country, lets governors to take call
President Donald Trump during a news conference about the coronavirus, at the White House in Washington, on Ap...Read MoreWASHINGTON: US…
Covid-19: Govt readying stimulus for corporates, relief for poor
Economic activities, including construction, have been heavily impacted due to the lockdownNEW DELHI: The government is giving the final touches…
Trump gives governors 3-phase plan to reopen economy
President Donald Trump gave governors a road map on Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic,…
A plan to revive the economy
“We have no food, no home, no income. My children are starving,” cried Prachi to a TV anchor on April…
Across the gulf: On stranded Indian workers
Around eight million people in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries constitute a unique cohort among Indian diaspora communities around…
Virtual truth: On telemedicine
The world has very few devices left to fight COVID-19 with, but technology remains one of them. Whether it is…
Amid corona fears, govt eyes record grain output
Farmers use a combined harvester in a wheat field in Rupnagar district of Punjab (PTI)NEW DELHI: Backed by the forecast…
Coronavirus: Govt lab claims to have identified ‘novel mutations’
AHMEDABAD: Claiming a breakthrough in studying the mysterious ways in which Covid-19 works, scientists at the government-run Gujarat Biotechnology Research…
Can’t sack staff: Companies get lawyers’ notice
NEW DELHI: In an innovation during the unprecedented lockdown, two lawyers replicated the Supreme Court's three-decade-old PIL concept to suo…
5 lakh kits land; to be used for surveillance, not diagnosis
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited consignment of five lakh rapid antibody diagnostic kits from China has finally arrived in India but…
Bought air tickets during lockdown? Full refund likely
NEW DELHI: The government provided some relief to air travellers on Thursday when it "advised" airlines to give full refunds…
Covid-19: Only 1 in every 24 samples +ve, govt says
NEW DELHI: Only one in every 24 samples tested for Covid-19 in India is positive, the government and Indian Council…