Social distancing essential to consisting of COVID-19, say professionals
With the World Health Organisation declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, the need for social distancing to prevent the spread of…
Delhi reports India’s 2nd COVID-19 death
With the second death and more than 80 positive cases of COVID-19, India has launched a containment lockdown, according to…
Coronavirus | Masks, sanitisers declared essential commodities
Centre takes decision following their shortage; consumers can register complaints at 1800-11-4000 or consumerhelpline.gov.in. Masks and hand sanitisers have been…
Covid-19: India has 30 days to stop onset of stage III, states ICMR DG
A girl has her temperature checked as a precaution against Covid-19 at a free screening camp at a government r...Read…
Coronavirus break out live updates: United States declares nationwide emergency situation
68-yr-old Delhi woman becomes India's 2nd coronavirus casualtyIndia reported its second Covid-19 death on Friday, with a 68-year-old woman from…
Europe now ‘epicentre’ of COVID-19 pandemic: WHO
GENEVA: The World Health Organization warned Friday that Europe was now the "epicentre" for the global coronavirus pandemic and reporting…
MP governor removes six ‘Scindia loyalist’ ministers
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh governor Lalji Tandon on Friday removed six ministers, supporters of Jyotiraditya Scindia, on the recommendation of chief…
Coronavirus | India-South Africa series called off due to COVID-19 threat
The first match between India and South Africa was washed out in Dharamsala | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The South…
SC decides to restrict hearings to immediate cases only
A view of the Supreme Court of India. File | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Notification says the functioning of the…
Deaths pass 5,000
People wear protective masks as they shop at a market, on the fourth day of an unprecedented lockdown across of…
Unnao case: Delhi court directs U.P. to take disciplinary action against doctors
Kuldeep Singh Sengar | Photo Credit: PTI ‘The state of Uttar Pradesh shall take appropriate disciplinary proceedings against the doctors…
Sensex rallies 1,325 points; Nifty recovers 9,900
Equity benchmark Sensex spurted 1,325.34 points while the Nifty reclaimed the 9,900 level after a highly volatile session on Friday…
Kamal Nath demands Madhya Pradesh Guv to hold flooring test in upcoming Assembly session
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Friday requested Governor Lalji Tandon to hold a floor test of the government…
Govt revokes detention of Farooq Abdullah
Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah makes his first public appearance on March 13, 2020, after he was released from detention.…
Sharad Pawar, Harivansh, Scindia in fray for Rajya Sabha polls as nomination filing ends
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, BJP's newest recruit Jyotiraditya Scindia and Congress veteran Digvijay…
India fights coronavirus, ITBP to set up 4 new quarantine sites
NEW DELHI: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is setting up four more quarantine camps for Covid-19 suspects as the country…
India-South Africa ODI series cancelled due to COVID-19 threat
NEW DELHI: The two remaining India-South Africa ODIs in Lucknow and Kolkata were on Friday called off owing to the…
SC takes note of global pandemic COVID-19, decides to restrict hearings to urgent cases only
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday took note of global pandemic novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and decided that only urgent…
Madhya Pradesh crisis live updates: Area 144 at Bhopal airport after scuffle in between BJP, Congress employees
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 13, 2020, 20:16:39 ISTSection 144 has been imposed at Bhopal airport after…
‘I am free today, but this freedom is not complete,’ says Farooq Abdullah after release from detention
NEW DELHI: Former J&K chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday said "Today I don't have words. I am free today;…
Coronavirus risk: Delhi govt bans IPL and other sports events
IPL Trophy. (TOI Photo)NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has stopped all sports gathering, including the Indian Premier League 2020, in…
Madhya Pradesh crisis: Kamal Nath calls on governor, says ready for floor test
BHOPAL: Expressing the readiness of his government for a floor test in the assembly, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath…
Coronavirus in India: 58,000 arrivals in a day, dodgy Kerala family spooked govt
NEW DELHI: The Kerala family that hid its travel history and passed on Covid-19 to others alarmed the government, prompting…
Murder of Unnao rape victim’s father: Delhi court sentences Kuldeep Singh Sengar to 10 years in prison
NEW DELHI: Delhi's Tis Hazari Court on Friday sentenced expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and six…
Florida could be knockout punch for Sanders’ 2020 campaign
MIAMI: Florida has never been known as a place of stability, especially in its politics. And yet stability is what…
Coronavirus latest updates: India reports first casualty, financial markets crash
NEW DELHI: Markets across the globe crashed, cities were locked down, sporting events were cancelled, as the menace of coronavirus…
Organisation Live: Nifty hits lower circuit; trading stopped for 45 minutes
11:00 AMMonitoring margin and settlement positions: SEBIAshish Rukhaiyar reports from Mumbai:The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) said it…
Bengaluru-based software engineer tests favorable
A corona patient ward is set up to provide treatment to any suspected case of the coronavirus at a hospital…
Coronavirus live updates | Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s wife tested positive
The World Health Organisation said that the new coronavirus outbreak “is a controllable pandemic” if countries step up measures to…
Indian Premier League | Matches to be played in front of empty stands?
The Sports Ministry has asked all the national sports federations, including the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI),…
Dumping Shiv Sena was a mistake: BJP’s Mungantiwar
Former State finance minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sudhir Munganitwar created a flutter in the Assembly on…
A go to that exposed Telangana to increased risk
In view of widespread COVID-19 scare across the country, a school in Tolichowki in Hyderabad has begun awareness campaign to…
Coronavirus | A glimpse into an isolation ward in Kerala
At the reception desk of the administrative block of Government Medical College Hospital, Ernakulam, you are asked to disinfect your…
Logged out of school, kids sign in for online lessons
BENGALURU: With the Karnataka government ordering suspension of classes at schools to prevent the spread of Covid-19, some institutes in…
No law allows posting protesters’ photos: SC on ‘recovery’ hoardings
NEW DELHI: Questioning the UP government for putting up posters to name and shame anti-CAA protesters who allegedly indulged in…
1,922 involved in Delhi riots identified: Shah
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Delhi Police, with the help of facial recognition software, had identified…
Jyotiraditya won’t get respect or satisfaction in BJP, says Rahul
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that Jyotiraditya Scindia abandoned his ideology and went with the RSS…
China stalls supplies, India faces anti-retroviral shortage
Sushmi Dey | TNN | Updated: Mar 13, 2020, 02:24 ISTNEW DELHI: Local drug makers are facing supply disruptions from…
Coronavirus break out live updates: No neighborhood transmission in India yet, govt says
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 13, 2020, 06:45:08 ISTA 76-year-old man in Karnataka became the first coronavirus…
Kamal Nath government will make it through BJP machinations: Bhupesh Baghel
MLAs feel betrayed by Jyotiraditya Scindia’s move, says Chhattisgarh Chief Minister. The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh will “certainly survive…
Not a time to panic: On India’s response to coronavirus outbreak
India must cut the transmission chain of the virus to save its health system from collapse With the virus galloping…
Risk ahead: On India’s roadway security record
District committees must hold open meetings to better India’s terrible record on road safety Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has…
India’s first COVID-19 death verified in Karnataka; overall variety of cases cross 70
Health officials in Karnataka reported the country’s first COVID-19 death late on March 12 after samples of a 76-year-old man,…
No doubtful category in National Population Register, says Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asserted in the Rajya Sabha that there would be no doubtful category in…
Amit Shah opposes himself
In this video grab made out of RSTV, Home Minister Amit Shah speaks in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Budget…
Tamil Nadu puts NPR updation on hold pending Centre’s information
The Tamil Nadu government has “put on hold” works towards updating the National Population Register (NPR) in the State, pending…
Coronavirus | Italy’s Ambassador to India defends Rome’s response to outbreak
Denying that Italy has been lax in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Italian Ambassador to India Vincenzo de Luca has…
COVID-19 vaccine will take at least two years to develop: health authorities
Health crisis: A man seen buying a hand sanitizer in New Delhi on Thursday. The virus has affected 74 people…
When Shivraj Singh Chouhan refererd ‘Vibhishan’ throughout Scindia’s welcome
Former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan with Jyotiraditya Scindia. (TOI photo by AM Faruqui)BHOPAL: Former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan…
Trump now makes the case for Namaste in the time of coronavirus
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is personally making the case for Namaste in the time of coronavirus, referring to his…