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.
Two BSF personnel succumb to COVID-19; nearly 200 infected in the force
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
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
Guwahati/IBNS: The COVID-19 warriors across the country are continuing their work risking their own lives, safety during the unprecedented health crisis.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.