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Border Security Force (BSF) personnel escort a central representative team to MR Bangur Hospital, where COVID-19 patients are treated, during the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Kolkata. PTI photo

Rising covid tally in BSF sets off alarm bells

There are 85 cases from the Border Security Force.

7 May 2020 12:25 PM IST

A 2017 file photo of people queuing up to buy liquor at a vend in Hyderabad. (DC Photo)

Liquor shops biggest crowd-puller on Day 1 of Lockdown 3

In Kerala, however, liquor shops stayed shut while most other shops opened.

5 May 2020 8:37 AM IST

Migrant workers and stranded people sleep in the forecourt of the Secunderabad railway station. (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)

Stranded migrants can soon go home, but conditions apply

But they will be tested, registered, tracked and isolated

30 April 2020 12:30 AM IST

A health worker checks the temperature of a man who arrived to board special buses to their villages in Guwahati. (AP)

Six new symptoms added to detect coronavirus infection

Earlier, the CDC's three symptoms of the virus were fever, cough and shortness of breath

28 April 2020 8:32 AM IST

A civic worker sprays disinfectant on beds at a special temporary hospital facility for COVID-19 patients in Mumbai on April 10, 2020. (AP)

945 new Covid-19 cases in a day, the highest so far

Health ministry still denies Stage-III transmission after sharp jump in numbers, 37 new deaths recorded

11 April 2020 7:39 AM IST

Doctors interact with people at a slum area during lockdown to control the spread of the new coronavirus in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 6, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Now, they'll test everyone with a runny nose

Trials coming up: Critically ill Covid-19 patients to be given antigen-rich plasma from recovered cases

9 April 2020 11:59 PM IST

Health workers sanitizing an area near the Nizamuddin mosque after people who attended a religious congregation organised by the Tablighi-e-Jamaat in New Delhi on Wednesday, April 1,2020. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Biggest one-day jump with 386 new cases

It's Tablighi Jamaat impact, not a national trend, says Health Ministry

2 April 2020 7:19 AM IST

Paramilitary personnel cordon off an area in Nizamuddin, where several people showed symptoms of infection from coronavirus after taking part in a religious gathering a few days ago, during the nationwide lockdown, in New Delhi on Monday. PTI photo

India's coronavirus cases touch 1,242 with 35 deaths

The nationwide lockdown, that has now completed six days, is helping contain the fast rise of fresh cases

30 March 2020 11:04 PM IST

The Covid-19 testing kits. (AFP)

ICMR moves to boost test kit availability to 60k per week

Two private companies have been approved to make test kits available

24 March 2020 6:16 AM IST

A woman wearing a protective mask sits in a train at the Guwahati railway station on March 20. The Indian Railways has announced cancellation of all trains on Sunday in view of a nationwide shutdown called by prime minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

All trains cancelled on Sunday, no catering until further notice

Indian Railways responds to prime minister Narendra Modi-'s call for a 24-hour shutdown

21 March 2020 6:49 AM IST

Relatives of Mohammed Aamir and Hashim, who were killed in the recent communal riots in the capital, cry during their funeral procession at Old Mustafabad in northeast Delhi on Saturday. (PTI)

Delhi violence: Uneasy calm as bodies of riot victims returned

The locality mourned the deaths even as some kept their fingers crossed that their missing loved ones would turn up.

1 March 2020 1:40 AM IST

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lay a wreath at Rajghat.

Melania Trump for happiness curriculum

Children ask Flotus, how far is USA from India? As answer, she only smiles.

26 Feb 2020 2:07 AM IST