Coronavirus | Bhilwara readies quarantine facilities after massive screening
Strict measures: Police personnel taking action against commuters during the Janata Curfew in Bhilwara. | Photo Credit: PTI The industrial…
The deep void in worldwide management
The coronavirus’s flight across the world at lightning speed, has exposed the total void in collective leadership at the global…
Vistara asks staff to self-quarantine as Goan passenger on March 22 flight tests Covid-19 positive
NEW DELHI: Vistara on Monday asked crew members of its Mumbai-Goa flight on March 22 to self-quarantine after a passenger…
Row over spray of chemicals on migrants in UP’s Bareilly; BJP tweets similar video from Kerala
NEW DELHI: A row erupted on Monday after a video showed some officials in UP's Bareilly district spraying chemicals on…
Lockdown: States seal borders to stop migrants; non-availability of labour hits supplies
NEW DELHI: Seeking to contain mass spread of the deadly coronavirus, several states on Monday effectively sealed their borders to…
Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 30, 2020, 20:20 ISTNEW DELHI: Reiterating that COVID-19 is still in the local transmission stage in…
Gautam Buddh Nagar DM moved after CM Yogi’s visit to coronavirus hotspot
NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday transferred Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate B N Singh for failing to control…
Delayed Tokyo Olympics to open July 23 next year
TOKYO: The Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23 next year, organisers said on Monday, after the coronavirus forced the…
Coronavirus lockdown: SC seeks status report from govt. on movement of migrant workers
Scrambling home: Migrant workers boarding a truck to Palwal, Haryana, on the Kondli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. Ashok Kumar CJI S.A. Bobde makes…
Auto makers asked to make ventilators: Health Ministry
Order given to Bharat Electronics Ltd. to manufacture 30,000 ventilators in the next two months Automobile manufacturers have been asked…
Disaffiliation if schools bother moms and dads to pay cost: Karnataka Minister
File photo of Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S. Suresh Kumar with schoolchildren. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The…
200 people from Nizamuddin establish signs; area cordoned off
A view of the Nizammudin area, where around 200 persons with coronavirus symptoms were found and taken to different hospitals,…
Coronavirus: Migrants returning to Bareilly forced to take bath outdoors with sanitiser
A screen grab of healthcare workers bathing migrants before entering the town of Bareilly on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special…
Delhi Court grants bail to three Shaheen Bagh protesters
Scene at the Shaheen Bagh area in New Delhi on March 24, 2020 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement They allegedly…
India coronavirus lockdown day 6 | ICMR denies community transmission
As India is under lockdown for nearly a week now, the government has said the 21-day period will not be…
Everyone counts: On Census-NPR postponement
The Centre must use the opportunity of the pause in NPR to redraft questions The Centre’s decision to postpone the…
Political pardon: On Sri Lankan soldier’s release
Freeing a soldier convicted for massacre dashes hopes for accountability in Sri Lanka The grant of presidential pardon, on Thursday,…
Coronavirus latest updates: 2nd Covid-19 death in West Bengal, total 1,122 cases in country
NEW DELHI: The total number of coronavirus positive cases in India rose to 1071 (including 942 active cases, 99 cured/discharged…
PM Modi shares 3D animated videos of him practising yoga
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday shared 3D animated videos of him performing yoga on Twitter to show…
Coronavirus: Onus put on DMs, SPs to check influx
PTI photo.NEW DELHI: In a move to curb the movement of migrant workers on roads and highways, the Centre on…
New York state surpasses 1,000 coronavirus deaths
NEW YORK: New York state's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak climbed Sunday above 1,000, less than a month after…
US reaches H-1B cap of 65,000 for 2021
WASHINGTON: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it has reached the congressionally-mandated 65,000 H-1B cap for the fiscal…
In worst-case scenario, 200,000 Americans could die from Covid-19: Anthony Fauci
NEW YORK: The coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the US government's top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday…
Trump extends virus guidelines, braces US for big death toll
WASHINGTON: Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Donald Trump on Sunday extended restrictive…
Peak US death rate likely in two weeks: Trump
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Sunday that the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic was…
Coronavirus live updates: Trump extends US ‘social distancing’ standards to April 30
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 30, 2020, 09:09:45 ISTThe number of Covid-19 cases crossed 1,000 in India…
Coronavirus | Donald Trump extends distancing guidelines by 30 days
President Donald Trump said on Sunday the peak death rate in the U.S. from the novel coronavirus is likely to…
Concern in Tamil Nadu over health status of 1,500 who went to conference in Delhi
Deserted roads in Tamil Nadu’s Erode city on March 25, 2020. Photo: Special Arrangement Authorities have a list of 819…
Delhi borders cleared, but screening poses challenge
NEW DELHI/GHAZIABAD: An evacuation carried out on a war footing through Saturday night and Sunday ensured the thousands of migrant…
US could see 100,000-200,000 deaths from Covid-19: Top health expert
NEW YORK: In a frightening warning, the US will see 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus, the Trump administration's…
Coronavirus roundup: Developments in India and rest of world
TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Updated: Mar 29, 2020, 21:23 ISTNEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday asked state governments and Union Territory administrations…
PM Modi apologises to people for hardships due to lockdown, says there was no other option to fight coronavirus
NEW DELHI: Underlining that the fight against Coronavirus is one between life and death, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday…
Coronavirus | Cases surge; ICMR denies community transmission
India on Sunday reported more than 100 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the overall case load to 979.“There have been…
JSW Group devotes 100 crore to fight COVID-19
Sajjan Jindal, Chairman, JSW Group. File | Photo Credit: SHASHI ASHIWAL Each employee of the JSW Group has committed a…
Discrete groups of Central officials and Ministers lead the battle against COVID-19
More than 5000 persons had sought for emergency passes to travel in Chennai and Tamil Nadu for various reasons. A…
Coronavirus | Centre warns lockdown violators of 14-day quarantine
Terming the movement of migrant workers to reach their home towns a violation of the lockdown measures on maintaining social…
Coronavirus lockdown | As inter-State buses dwindle, migrants are stuck on Yamuna Expressway with nowhere to go
Hundreds of people remained suspended between hope and despair at Zero Point on the Yamuna Expressway on Sunday as desperate…
Newspaper delivery chain, transportation of all types of goods allowed during lockdown: MHA
NEW DELHI: The Home Secretary on Sunday clarified that newspaper delivery chain was allowed to operate during the 21-day lockdown…
PMO sets up high-level panels to deal with situation post lockdown, restore normalcy
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Sunday constituted 10 different high-level committees to suggest measures to ramp up…
Covid-19: Over 2,000 deaths in United States
Temporary homeless shelter in Las Vegas. (Credits: AFP)WASHINGTON DC: More than 2,000 patients have died due to coronavirus in the…
Migrant labourers in time of corona: Jobless, homeless and miles to go to return home
NEW DELHI: Some are finding their own villages in Bihar blocking their entry; a few had to make trees their…
Covid-19 outbreak: DGCA suspends breath analyser tests for aviation personnel
NEW DELHI: Aviation personnel, including pilots and cabin crew, have been temporarily exempted from breath analyser (BA) tests in wake…
Centre asks states to provide shelter to migrants, seal borders as exodus continues
NEW DELHI: Stating that movement of large number of migrants in some parts of the country to reach their hometowns…
Coronavirus | In letter to PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi offers suggestions to deal with exodus of migrant workers
Expressing solidarity with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India's fight against COVID-19, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asked…
Indian Trains apprehend “massive” rush to medical facilities quickly
As part of efforts to control the spread of COVID-19, the Indian Railways on March 22, 2020 announced the cancellation…
SpiceJet pilot tests positive, staff sent out on home quarantine
According to the airline, the pilot did not operate any international flight in March./ File photo | Photo Credit: V.V.…
PM addresses first Mann ki Baat amid COVID-19 lockdown
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the first Mann ki Baat amid the 21-day-long COVID-19 lockdown, on Sunday, March 29. Here…
Over 980 test positive as death toll touches 24
According to data from State governments the number of deaths due to COVID-19 stands at 28 deaths, with 1,035 positive…
Why has the stock exchange been so volatile?
The story so far: On Friday, even after the Reserve Bank of India announced a slew of measures to boost…
The exodus or the dignity of the poor
There is a great dignity in the stoic march of India’s workers as they leave India’s national capital, one of…