Air India's first repatriation flight takes off from UAE
May 07, 2020, at 08:48 pm
Dubai/IBNS: An Air India Express flight has taken off from Abu Dhabi carrying 177 Indian nationals who were stuck in the UAE amid the worldwide lockdown enforced to contain spread of coronavirus.
Two BSF personnel succumb to COVID-19; nearly 200 infected in the force
May 07, 2020, at 05:00 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Two BSF personnel succumbed to COVID-19 this week with the first death reported on Monday last and the second personnel dying today at a hospital in Delhi, said reports.
Tamil Nadu police arrests man who claimed to have developed herbal cure for COVID-19
May 07, 2020, at 03:59 pm
Chennai/IBNS: A man was arrested following a complaint lodged by the director of Indian Medicine and Homeopathy for alleged claims of finding a herbal cure for COVID-19, a media report said.
Assam MLA visits hospitals to express gratitude to COVID-19 warriors
May 04, 2020, at 08:48 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: The COVID-19 warriors across the country are continuing their work risking their own lives, safety during the unprecedented health crisis.
May 04, 2020, at 08:05 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Mumbai High Court Nagpur bench has sought a reply from the Maharashtra government and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on a Public Interest Litigation(PIL) filed by one Mohammad Nishat, challenging the civic body's decision to shift more than 1200 people from COVID-19 hotspots in Nagpur to institutional quarantine centres, media reports said.
May 04, 2020, at 05:24 pm
Kolkata/UNI: The thousand-odd deaths caused by Covid look trivial compared with the mass deaths caused by other diseases getting low priority, Indian Federation of Hospital Administrators' Executive Member Dr Naresh Purohit told UNI here today.
Liquor shops in Delhi closed again as people throng flouting social distancing norms
May 04, 2020, at 03:42 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Hours after Delhi government announced to ease lockdown situation according to the Home Ministry guidelines for the third phase of nationwide closure, it had to take back the permission to open liquor shops as people thronged in large numbers outside these shops, threatening social distancing norms.
May 04, 2020, at 12:36 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) is sending Central Public Health Teams to 20 worst-hit districts/cities in ten states across the country to support the state governments to implement novel coronavirus containment measures in the affected areas, officials said on Sunday.
PM Modi to attend NAM video conference on COVID-19 tomorrow
May 04, 2020, at 12:12 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the Online Summit Level Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Contact Group in Response to Covid-19 tomorrow, a media report said.
ICMR receives proposal to explore COVID-19 cure in Ganga water
May 03, 2020, at 11:51 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has received a proposal to run clinical trials on Ganga water to find if it can be used in the treatment of the deadly coronavirus, a media report said.
Guwahati : Armed forces express gratitude to COVID-19 warriors with flower petal showers, flypasts
May 03, 2020, at 05:16 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: The Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters on Sunday conducted a flypast in Guwahati to express gratitude towards the the doctors, nurses and all other frontline warriors fighting the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
COVID-19: Karnataka announces free travel for migrant labourers returning home within the state
May 03, 2020, at 03:54 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: The Karnataka government on Sunday announced that migrant labourers returning home could travel for free for the next three days on state-run buses.
About 120 vehicles, shops and petrol pump sealed in Kashmir's Baramulla
May 03, 2020, at 03:37 pm
Baramulla/UNI: Taking action against violators of Covid-19 norms, the district administration in this north Kashmir district seized 77 vehicles and sealed a petrol pump and 40 shops on Saturday, an official spokesman said.
Special train carrying students from Kota reaches Hatia in Jharkhand
May 02, 2020, at 11:57 pm
Ranchi/UNI: A special train carrying students from Kota in Rajasthan arrived at the Hatia railway station in Jharkhand today in the evening.
Citizens stranded in Telangana wanting to leave for their homes can apply for E-PASS
May 02, 2020, at 11:31 pm
Hyderabad/UNI: Telangana Director General of Police M Mahender Reddy on Saturday asked the people who are stranded in Telangana due to the lockdown and want to leave for their respective homes in other states in India can apply for E-PASS by submitting required information the following link, https://tsp.koopid.ai/epass.
Special train for migrants to run from Bhiwandi to Gorakhpur tonight
May 02, 2020, at 10:13 pm
Thane/UNI: A special train for the stranded people will be run from Bhiwandi Road railway station in the district to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday night.
Police vehicle escorting workers back from Telangana overturns; driver killed, 5 jawans injured
May 02, 2020, at 09:16 pm
Ramgarh/UNI: A vehicle of the Chatra police, which was escorting a bus carrying workers who arrived by a special train from Telangana today, overturned in Ormanjhi valley, killing the driver of the vehicle and injuring five other policemen.
Barber shops, salon to open in green, orange zones from May 4: MHA
May 02, 2020, at 08:28 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Clarifying the ambiguities in some sections of the guidelines for the third phase of lockdown, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Saturday said that the barber shops and salons will be allowed to open in green and orange zones, but inter-district and intra-district bus services will remain suspended in the orange zones.
Days after MHA declares Tripura COVID-19 free, two BSF Jawans test positive
May 02, 2020, at 07:54 pm
Agartala/UNI: A week after Tripura was declared Covid-19 free by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), two fresh cases of the deadly viral disease were detected on Saturday, leaving the state administration confused about the spread of the disease in the state.
Covid-19 lockdown extended for two more weeks
May 01, 2020, at 07:25 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: The nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, which was scheduled to end on May 4, has been extended for two more weeks, said the government, as new cases of the disease continue to be reported.
First special train carrying 1200 migrant workers leaves Telangana for Jharkhand
May 01, 2020, at 04:06 pm
Hyderabad/IBNS: Days after the Ministry of Home Affairs allowed the movement of migrant workers, students, pilgrims and other people stranded across the country amid the ongoing lockdown, the first train carrying 1200 labourers left from Lingampally in Telangana for Jharkhand's Hatia district, media reports said.
Kashmiris labourers, stuck at Kangra, return home
Apr 30, 2020, at 07:51 pm
Kangra/UNI: A batch of Kashmiri migrant labourers, living in different parts of Shahpur sub-division of this district, were sent to their hometown on Thursday.
IIT Guwahati students design and develop low-cost intubation boxes
Apr 30, 2020, at 03:47 pm
Guwahati/UNI: Indian Institute of Guwahati students have designed and developed a low-cost intubation boxes.
Assam reports four more COVID-19 positive cases
Apr 30, 2020, at 02:57 pm
Guwahati/IBNS/UNI: Assam on Thursday reported four more positive COVID-19 cases and with this the state tally has gone up to 41.
Father son arrested for attacking police infect 21 people with Covid-19
Apr 29, 2020, at 11:29 pm
Bhopal/IBNS: Two men, arrested on Apr 7 along with five others, under the stringent National Security Act for attacking policemen in Indore, have infected at least 21 people with coronavirus, media reports said.
Covid-19 lockdown: Over 2,00,000 H-1B visa holders fear losing legal right to stay in US
Apr 29, 2020, at 05:20 pm
New York/IBNS: Over 2,00,000 H-1B visa holders, many of whom are Indians, are having sleepless nights over fears of losing legal status to stay in the US.
Apr 28, 2020, at 12:57 am
Thiruvananthapuram/ IBNS: Kerala Chief Minister Pianarayi Vijyan has said a partial lockdown till May 15 would be suitable for his state in a video conference meet with Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday.
West Bengal BJP protests state govt's mismanagement of COVID-19 situation with at-home sit-in dharna
Apr 26, 2020, at 05:36 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: BJP's West Bengal unit on Sunday held a two-hour at-home sit-in protest over mismanagement of the coronavirus situation, hiding information and alleged attack on its party workers and supporters in the lockdown period.
Amarnath Yatra subject to Covid-19 situation: Jammu Kashmir LG
Apr 26, 2020, at 12:40 am
Jammu/IBNS: Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor GC Murmu has said the upcoming Amarnath yatra was subject to the Covid-19 situation as the pilgrimage requires comprehensive planning and execution, said media reports.
Nearly 25,000 permitted for inter-district travel of day 1 in Assam
Apr 26, 2020, at 12:30 am
Guwahati/UNI: More than 12,000 people were ferried between different districts of Assam today by government-run buses while an almost equal number used their own vehicles to travel as three-day conditional inter-district movement commenced in the state today.