coronavirus

Tablighi Jamaat: ED conducts multi-city raids

300 more from T’gana who participated in Nizamuddin event need to be tested: KCR

4:23 pm April 2, 2020

Hyderabad: As many as 300 people from Telangana who attended a religious congregation in the national capital recently, still need to be tested for Covid-19virus, the state government has said. “There is a need to conduct tests on 300 more who went to the Markaz (religious congregation). The government is urging those who went to […]

Sonia slams Centre for ‘anti-people’ activities, ‘exploiting’ farmers

BJP leader takes swipe at Sonia Gandhi

11:42 pm April 1, 2020

New Delhi: Taking a swipe at Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP’s Amit Malviya said her Rae Bareli constituency is looking for her as India fights coronavirus. “As India fights corona, Rai Bariely is looking for its Member of Parliament who also happens to be ‘interim’ Congress president…If anyone knows where she is, please let the […]

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

PM discusses coronavirus situation with Maha CM

11:28 pm April 1, 2020

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday discussed the coronavirus situation in Maharashtra — which has the highest number of cases in the country — with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on phone. Maharashtra has recorded 335 cases of coronavirus so far. State officials said the prime minister urged Thackeray to step up “tracing, testing and […]

COVID-19: JNCASR develops coating to prevent transmission of infection

10:49 pm April 1, 2020

New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology, claims to have developed a one-step curable anti-microbial coating which, when coated on different surfaces such as textile, plastic and so on could kill a range of virus types including COVID 19. This covalent […]

UP reports first two coronavirus-related deaths in state

9:08 pm April 1, 2020

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday reported first two deaths due to coronavirus infection in the state with one casualty each in Basti and Meerut amid the total number of corona-positive patients rising to 113. Out of the 113 infected persons, 17 were fully cured of the infection and discharged, said Principal Secretary (Medical and Health) […]