PM Narendra Modi holds COVID-19 meeting with CMs via video conferenceÂ
New Delhi/IBNS: The crucial meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Ministers of different states over the issue of COVID-19 outbreak and the lockdown imposed to control its spread has begun.
PM Modi to chair meeting with CMs over Covid-19 lockdown today
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday hold a video conference with all Chief Ministers over the anti-Coronavirus lockdown which is as of now due to end on May 18.
COVID-19 lockdown: Lost his job in US, Bengal youth turns vegetable seller
Panskura (East Midnapore)/UNI: Kartick Maity, a resident of Baharpota Village in this district, worked on a salary of Rs 40,000 a month in a shipping company in the US.
Nepali origin woman booked for jumping quarantine in Himachal Pradesh
Shimla/UNI: A Nepali origin woman was on Sunday booked for jumping coronavirus quarantine at Kasumpti on outskirts of the Himachal Pradesh capital.
PM Narendra Modi to interact with CMs as nCoV claims over 2000 lives in India
New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet Chief Minister's of various states on Monday to carve out next strategy of tackling the novel coronavirus outbreak that has so far claimed 2109 lives in India.
Supreme Court says states should consider online sales and home delivery of liquor amid lockdown
New Delhi/IBNS:The Supreme Court has observed that the states should consider online sales and home delivery of liquor to maintain the COVID-19 social distancing norms which were violated in almost all places in the country after liquor shops opened after a gap of more than a month on May 4, said a media report.
Air India's first repatriation flight takes off from UAE
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.
Centre directs Bengal govt to resume essential goods transportation through Indo-Bangladesh border
New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has written to West Bengal Chief Secretary Rajiva Sinha, directing him to immediately allow transportation of essential goods through Indo-Bangladesh borders, which has not been resumed by the state yet even after Ministry of Home Affair (MHA)'s Apr 24 order, officials said on Wednesday.
Narendra Modi was ahead of other leaders in seeing Covid-19 problem: Amartya Sen
Kolkata/IBNS: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, a critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist political outfit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has surprised many with his rare appreciation of the Indian leader's response towards the deadly pandemic Novel Coronavirus or Covid-19.
What will happen after lockdown 3.0?:Sonia Gandhi asks Centre
New Delhi/UNI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday questioned the Centre over the criteria it is using to judge how long lockdown will continue.
Maharashtra: 181 cases of assault on police during lockdown
Aurangabad/Mumbai/UNI: Around 181 cases of assault on police were registered while 661 accused have been arrested in this connection, stated official data corresponding to the period from March 22 to May 5.
After Yediyurappa's meeting with builders, Karnataka cancels trains for migrant workers
Bengaluru/IBNS: The Karnataka government on Wednesday cancelled all trains which were about to take stranded migrant workers back to their homes, following a meeting between between Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and property builders, media reports said.
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
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.
Indians queue up outside liquor shops as stores open, flout social distancing norms
Kolkata/IBNS: Flouting social distancing norms, long queues were spotted outside liquor shops across the Indian states as the government has opened the stores from Monday as one of the relaxations amid the anti-Covid-19 lockdown.