Coronavirus outbreak: Man with no travel history tests positive in Bengal
KOLKATA: A 57-year-old man with no foreign-travel history and a 23-year-old woman who returned from Scotland tested positive to Covid-19…
Curbs at Kolkata prison trigger violent clash
Prisoners indulging in violence. Visits put on hold after virus outbreak. Widepsread violence erupted at the Dum Dum Central Correctional…
No community transmission yet, says Centre
As India braced for a nationwide 14-hour lockdown on March 22 to break the spread of the novel coronavirus, and…
Why are just a fraction of cases tested?
The story so far: With the number of COVID-19 cases accelerating in India, health authorities are now broadening the pool…
Rajinikanth’s tweet taken down for ‘spreading false information’
Actor said by staying indoors during ‘Janata Curfew’, COVID-19’s spread can be halted Actor Rajinikanth's clip urging people to support…
Madhya Pradesh | BJP Legislature Party meeting likely on March 23; Shivraj Singh Chouhan tipped to return as CM
Forging ties: BJP State president Shivraj Singh Chouhan meeting Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker N.P. Prajapati in Bhopal. | Photo Credit:…
Vaccine was quickly synthesised as novel coronavirus sequence was available, says virologist Gagandeep Kang
Just over three months after the genome sequence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was shared by Chinese researchers, an messenger-RNA…
COVID-19 | Patients with respiratory illness in hospitals will also be tested, says ICMR
Sign board directing patients to coronavirus OPD ward put up at the entrance of Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai | Photo…
Journalistic difficulties in reporting COVID-19
On March 11, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic. He said: “Pandemic is…
Ravi Shankar Prasad withdraws allegation against Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader says taking back case
NEW DELHI: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said he has withdrawn his allegation made during Lok Sabha polls against…
Coronavirus: Clamour grows to hold off Tokyo Olympics
LONDON: Calls from sporting organisations for this year's Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace…
Why Italy? The factors behind a coronavirus disaster
AFP | Updated: Mar 21, 2020, 22:22 ISTA staffer at a hospital in Italy taking a moment of rest. (Credits:…
Stay where you are, don’t stress and rush to your towns, PM Modi prompts individuals
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday evening urged people not to leave cities of their workplace in panic…
US military steps up to fight Covid-19 as 20% of America is shut down
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) taking on supplies on March 20, 2020, at Naval...Read MoreWASHINGTON:…
Coronavirus: Jail prisoners in Bengal clash with guards after denied meeting with households
Photo: ANIKOLKATA: A major clash broke out at Dum Dum central jail on Saturday morning, as inmates attacked the jail…
Coronavirus | Three more test positive for COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu
Passengers wear masks at the Chennai International airport in the wake of coronavirus disease. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni…
Coronavirus | No. of people allowed to assemble in Delhi down to 5, says Kejriwal in 1st digital press conference
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addressing his first digital press conference, flanked by Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Health Minister…
U.K. enters into shutdown as clubs, cinemas, leisure centres close doors
The UK began going into complete shutdown on Saturday after the government called on bars, pubs, cinemas, theatres and all…
Ola, Uber suspend ride-sharing choice across India
Decision taken to check the spread of COVID-19 India’s two biggest app-based aggregator cab services, Uber and Ola, have decided…
Centre all set to put off Census, NPR exercise
The Centre looks all set to postpone the house-listing Census and updating of the National Population Register (NPR), which was…
Do not think Dhoni will find place in T20 World Cup squad: Gavaskar
File Pic: Sunil Gavaskar and MS Dhoni (Getty Images)MUMBAI: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar feels it would be very difficult…
12 passengers tested positive for Covid-19: Indian Railways
NEW DELHI: Twelve people, who have travelled by two different trains recently, have been tested positive for coronavirus, said the…
Coronavirus: Avoid unnecessary travel; follow instructions of doctors and authorities, urges PM Modi
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked countrymen to avoid unnecessary travel and urged them to follow the…
Virat Kohli is my preferred Indian cricketer: Javed Miandad
KARACHI: Pakistani cricket legend Javed Miandad is in awe of Virat Kohli's batting and has picked the India captain as…
ICMR revises its policy to test coronavirus patients in India: All you need to know
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 21, 2020, 14:17 ISTNEW DELHI: As the total number of novel coronavirus cases in India rose…
Coronavirus: 3 states lock down 70 million in US
NEW YOR: Illinois and New York state joined California on Friday in ordering all residents to stay in their homes…
‘What happens in Antarctica will impact everybody– and it’s altering extremely quick’
Lewis Pugh is a famous endurance swimmer, environmental campaigner and UN Patron of the Oceans. Having swum in all the…
Coronavirus latest updates: 60,000 quarantine beds set aside as corona cases rise
NEW DELHI: Fifty-seven cases were reported from country on Friday - the most in one day - as the number…
Coronavirus in India: Govt asks public, private hospitals to set aside beds as cases rise
NEW DELHI: The Centre issued an advisory on Friday to all hospitals and medical education institutions — both public and…
Madhya Pradesh crisis: Political tide turns, who’ll ride the wave?
Former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan celebrates with BJP workers at state party HQ in Bhopal on Friday after CM Kam...Read…
Nirbhaya convicts: Ordinary men who crossed over to dark side
NEW DELHI: They were ordinary men, and like everyone had their own traits, some likeable, some unpleasant. Each had a…
Coronavirus, live updates: India records over 230 favorable cases
The number of COVID-19 positive cases surged to 234 in India as of March 21. With four dead, and several…
Shaheen Bagh demonstration to continue throughout Janata curfew
Protestors of Shaheen Bagh sanitising their hands, due to the outbreak of Corona virus, during an ongoing protest in New…
Nirbhaya convicts hanging | Two cremated together, others taken to home States
Amid heavy police deployment, the bodies of Nirbhaya convicts Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta reached their residence in Rama Krishna…
Federal government ‘examining’ COVID-19 client in Tamil Nadu without foreign travel history
Passengers use face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) at Coimbatore railway station. | Photo…
Coronavirus | Singer Kanika Kapoor’s COVID-19 status has politicians worried
Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor’s announcement on Friday that she had tested positive for COVID-19 triggered a scare among several top…
Coronavirus impact: Govt may defer Census, NPR update
NEW DELHI: The government may explore the option of deferring or advising states to defer the April 1 launch of…
Coronavirus outbreak: Breaking home quarantine may lead to jail, warn officials
NEW DELHI: Those flouting the law and ditching home quarantine can face up to six months in jail along with…
Coronavirus outbreak: With 57 new cases, steepest rise in 1 day
NEW DELHI: India saw a big spike in Covid-19 infections with 57 new cases being reported by state authorities and…
Coronavirus Live Updates: More than quarter of a million cases worldwide
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 21, 2020, 06:03:39 ISTCoronavirus has infected more than 2,45,000 people and killed…
Bollywood singer Kanika Kapoor tests positive for Covid-19, brings political class under corona scare
NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The coronavirus scare reached Parliament and even Rashtrapati Bhavan, with BJP MP Dushyant Singh and with his mother,…
Janata curfew: 3,700 trains cancelled on Sunday
NEW DELHI: The railways on Friday announced cancellation of 3,700 passenger and long-distance mail/express trains on Sunday to coincide with…
Coronavirus | Narendra Modi holds meeting with CMs; number of cases crosses 230
With as many as 75 fresh cases being reported on Friday, the number of COVID-19 positive persons in the country…
On the frontline, combating the coronavirus
At 4.30 a.m. on March 1, a flight from Abu Dhabi landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.…
The missing notes: On politics and the battle versus COVID-19
Political India should put up a united front against the fast galloping virus Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address…
Criminal offense and penalty: On Nirbhaya case convicts’ hanging
A society that prefers a male child has already condemned its women to an unequal world The pre-dawn hangings of…
The Hindu brings out e-book on important COVID-19 information
The number of articles that can be read on The Hindu site for free is now 20 for a period…
Trains to cancel several long-distance and traveler trains on March 22
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for a “janata curfew” on March 22, the Indian Railways has decided that no…
COVID-19 | Global toll crosses 10,000
More than 10,000 people have now died in the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept throughout the world, forcing the confinement…