Day: April 1, 2020

Gujarat: Congress, BJP spar over Dhaman-1 ventilators

Maha: Pvt lab stopped from conducting COVID-19 tests

7:46 pm April 1, 2020

Mumbai: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday said a private lab in the state has been stopped from conducting coronavirus tests for delay in providing results. The private testing laboratories are unable to provide prompt results to state authorities, he said. “Every report provided by them has to be rechecked in the state-run labs […]

Coronavirus rangoli receives wide appreciation

7:35 pm April 1, 2020

Coimbatore: A ‘rangoli’ by a woman asking people to keep distance from one another and stay at home to combat the coronavirus has been receiving appreciation from the public. Kumudam has drawn the rangoli in front of her house near here, with words ‘Keep Distance Stay at Home’ in Tamil. The photographs and video of […]

Tablighi Jamaat: ED conducts multi-city raids

Chhattisgarh: Search on for more attendees of Nizamuddin event

7:24 pm April 1, 2020

Raipur: Even as authorities in Chhattisgarh have identified 101 people in the state who attended the religious congregation in New Delhi’s Nizamuddin, which has turned out as one of the major COVID-19 hotspots in the country, hunt is on for some more persons who took part in the event, a senior official said here. The […]

Sensex plunges 1,203 pts; Nifty tanks below 8,300

7:18 pm April 1, 2020

Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex plummeted over 1,203 points on Wednesday, in line with a global selloff as investors fretted over the impact of prolonged worldwide lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Starting the new financial year on a poor note, the 30-share BSE barometer slumped 1,203.18 points or 4.08 per cent to finish at 28,265.31. […]

India’s 10 COVID-19 hotspots: an overview

3:41 pm April 1, 2020

New Delhi: The government is focusing its attention on 10 hotspots’ across the country in its effort to control the spread of COVID-19, which has infected more than 1,200 people and claimed at least 35 lives. There are two hotspots each in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala and Maharashtra and one each in Gujarat and Rajasthan: […]