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Medics carry out screening as police cordoned off an area in Nizamuddin after some people showed coronavirus symptoms, in New Delhi. PTI photo

Foreigners who attended Nizamuddin religious event violating visa...

Foreigners among 8K people who attended Tabligh-e-Jamaat at Nizamuddin Markaz in March, many of whom have shown symptoms...

31 March 2020 12:51 PM IST

Municipal workers sprays disinfectant as a measure to prevent the spread of Covid19. AFP Photo

Covid19 cases climb to 230 In Maharashtra after 17 more test positive

The new cases included, eight from Mumbai, five from Pune and two from Nagpur

31 March 2020 9:47 AM IST

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Bodies of all coronavirus patients will be cremated, says BMC

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allowed the burial of dead bodies at burial grounds away from dense...

31 March 2020 9:23 AM IST

People maintain social distance as they wait outside a shopping mall at Madhurawada as the whole nation goes lockdown to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Visakhapatnam on Monday. (DC Photo: Murali Krishna)

Jagan government takes over all private hospitals in Andhra Pradesh

British-era Epidemic Diseases Act invoked to effect takeover

31 March 2020 9:10 AM IST

A man and his child walk on a deserted street in Old Delhi on Friday, March 27, 2020. A whole clutch of coronavirus positive cases are being traced to a religious event that took place in the Nizamuddin area of Delhi earlier this month. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

6 die of Covid-19 in Telangana, all linked to Nizamuddin prayer...

All six had attended a Markaz at a mosque in the Nizamuddin area of Old Delhi

31 March 2020 8:28 AM IST

Prime Minister Modi interacts with citizens of Varanasi amid nationwide lockdown, in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, via video conferencing, in New Delhi. PTI photo

Modi asks envoys to publicise PM CARES fund abroad, seeks fund to...

PM Modi asked the Indian envoys to suitably publicise the newly-established PM-CARES Fund to mobilise donations from...

31 March 2020 12:44 AM IST

Health workers spray disinfectant in a locality of Srinagar. (AA Photo by H U Naqash)

Why are so many fleeing quarantine in Kashmir?

Photographs of street dogs in the corridors of major hospitals put the focus on hospital conditions

31 March 2020 12:22 AM IST

A police personnel spray disinfectants inside a vehicle as a precautionary measure during the nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Jammu on Monday. PTI photo

Covid19 cases in J&K climb to 48, J&K hospitals in doldrums

In J&K, as many as 11, 644 travellers and persons in contact with suspected cases are under surveillance, including 355...

31 March 2020 12:09 AM IST

A migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh carries a child as he walks along the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, following the coronavirus lockdown, in Palghar on Monday, PTI image

262 relief camps for migrant workers in Maharashtra

Thackeray appealed to the migrant labourers not to leave the state and assured to provide them all assistance

30 March 2020 11:38 PM IST

A volunteer sprays disinfectant on paramilitary personnel as they 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 image

Covid19 deaths in India touch 35, cases climb to 1,242

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

30 March 2020 11:17 PM IST

Members of the Disaster Response Force (DRF) of Telangana prepare to spray disinfectant on a street to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Hyderabad. (AFP)

Hyderabad records second Covid-19 death

As per epidemic protocol, body disposed of to minimise risk of infection to family

30 March 2020 11:09 PM IST

Fire fighter personnel spray disinfectants on a road during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, at Lokhra in Guwahati on Sunday. PTI photo

Government has no plan to extend 21-day lockdown

There have been fears that the lockdown may spark severe economic and social distress

30 March 2020 1:44 PM IST